Let's Plant Ecology Into Our Society

<< Background >>Our goal is to create an eco-friendly society by instilling proper attitudes towards the environment, inspiring lifelong changes. Overall, our project aims to educate and empower individuals, contributing to a more sustainable future.We applied this Project because one of our aims was to make our school more global and more international. We wanted our students , colleagues and parents to be more aware of the environment and we wanted them to improve their language skills.Our initial thought was that since we are found in the center of climatic change and since our schools aim to be ecological and sustainable, we would like to inform our students accordingly even further with new ideas and modern ways of dealing with climate change. What is more, we wanted to develop and strengthen academic, cultural and social skills in our students. We also aimed at increasing the number of participations in European projects, in order to learn about different geographic, cultural, religious, linguistic and pedagogical contexts.We feel the need to raise awareness in our students of the ideals of European citizenship of unity, based on the values of freedom, democracy, respect for diversity and tolerance.<< Objectives >>We aimed to learn about other countries, as well as how to protect the nature and environment, how to prevent forest fires and what should be done for the climate change. The aim was to promote inclusion at different scales: first within each school, then by building relationships with the project's European partners. The fact that the partners are from different geographic origins (rural and urban areas, large and small) was also responsible for greater inclusion. The fact of working together gave rise to the spontaneous need to develop communication skills.Teachers also developed new teaching materials according to the project theme. We aimed to improve language and digital skills, awaken awareness of European citizenship through warm and human relationships, which in turn would encourage tolerance of differences. Through all these objectives combined, we better sought the spirit of tolerance, teamwork and the improvement of school results.<< Implementation >>We organised many activities both during mobilities and in the time between them.Students made presentations about their countries cities and schools.Students prepared posters, slogans and pictures about ecology.Children also made Kahoot Quizes about Ecology and culture and phrases of the partner countries.One of our students made a presentation about how to prepare your own Kahoot. Teachers gave short seminars about forest fires, renewable energy and climate change.After that students participated in workshops on making book marks about how to prevent forest fires, created windmills.We all created Erasmus Song by participating all the partners included Japan.Students and teachers took part in Turkish Art EBRU workshop,created Erasmus Garden.The implementation process involved gardening activities including tank placement so as to save water, creation of Art either with the help of dried leaves or bottle caps and also the exploitation of reused clothes such as pair of jeans for further artistic results,creation of mathematical tasks with the theme of plants. Schools collaborated or exchanged their lesson plans and knowledge. There was a lot of sightseeing and learning about cultures and history or partner counties.<< Results >>The concrete outputs and other results of our project were: raising ecology awareness through activities like planting and food sharing; planting symbolizing international cooperation, community engagement via eco days, cultural exchange and language learning, enhanced technological literacy using various applications for education; promotion of STEAM education with ecology, fostering critical thinking; emphasis on inclusion, addressing inclusion issues and promoting unity. Overall, our project led to increased awareness, sustainable practices, community engagement, cultural exchange, technological literacy, STEAM education promotion, and inclusion.What is more , thanks to the project , our students and teachers learnt more about the ecology. Our students had real chance to experience other cultures and languages and were given the chance to make friendships despite the borders. There was cooperation among students. They loved the cooperation and the activities such as production of wax ointments from bees, soaps, posters depicting climate crisis caused by the catastrophic environmental crisis and artwork in the schoolyard with the help of plastic caps and brainstorming on how to prevent climate change.