ENERGY EFFICIENT HOUSES

"Renewable energy, sustainable housing practices in Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe. Objectives: -help students put theory into the practice effectively about energy saving, recycling, and green energy (at home and in community)-to rise student scientific knowledge and to develop entrepreneurial skills, numeracy skills, digital abilities, and multilingualism for them.-to exchange ideas and practical experience through short-term exchanges;-to make students and teachers gain and reduce consumerist attitudes towards life and environment;-to expand their critical and creative thinking skills like problem solving independently through international team work.-to make them gain European awareness and common European heritage regardless of cultural diversities -to help them get new and improve their existing ICT skills;-to deepen knowledge on importance of energy and protecting environment in European countries-to be able to analyze the problem and find innovative solutions.-develop skills of teachers from European schools for using innovative approaches in learning, based on using ICT and focused on creating a more active learning environment.-enhance the quality of education and enrich the school-offer of the European schools, by developing innovative didactical materials based on interdisciplinary approachesStudents will exercise themselves to use technical programmes to design energy efficiency house, they will be able to explore in an experiential and empirical way all the theoreticalknowledge they earned all these years.When this target is achieved, we can bring to the fore the aspect of reducing CO2. Next priority of the learning process would be to orientate students to discover our environment that impressed them. In addition to our objectives during the activities in our project, our results will be a project logo, Project website, A Facebook group, an eTwinning group, eTwinning online events, A summary video after each short-term exchange, A YouTube channel, A photo gallery, practical objects made of recyclables. Also our main concrete result will be a model of energy efficiency house which will be designed via autocat programme by the students.Profile and number of the participants: Pupils, teachers and other school staff will take part in the project activities. At least two teachers from each school, 12 in total, will take part in LTT activities.Our teacher’s age range is 26 -60 with abilities in using ICT in teaching and been worked about the project topic, who demonstrate openness in using competence strategies in teaching, use English and ability in working in multicultural groups 3 students from each partner school will be involved in LTT activities. Our partner schools will be asked to deploy different students for each mobility abroad. In addition, the balance of girls and boys will be asked to be taken into consideration. Thus, a total of 54 students will take an active role during the project.Description of activities:The main activities in project are :Training teachers and the students about sustainable energy and its implementation in houses; STEM Fairs, building smart houses course integration into science lessons, Seminars regarding environment and the problems faced in sera effect; Online interaction through web 2.0 technologies and experience sharing through videos, booklet, reports; Drawing a model of smart house with the programmes of autocat and sketchup.Methodology:Through discussions on pedagogical, ethical, behavioral problems, inclusive topics, and common concerns on sustainable energy, we will enlarge our perspective, working on students' creativity. We are sure the impact and benefits of European cooperation will increase motivation and capacity in our students. They will raise the importance of learning and will enrich our pupils' creativity. “Imagine. Create. Innovate”. These three ideas will also sustain our project, in which creativity will be the driver for innovation, and the most important key factor for the development of personal and social competence and the""well-being of all the individuals in society. Results: Students will be able to discover the importance of sustainable development, usage of renewable energy as a measure for the protection of the environment and climate change and at the same time experience other cultures and understand the world better. They will learn the importance and techniques of effective international team work and create their own future house design. Improved ICT skills, problem solving and critical thinking. Long term benefits and sustainability: Our students will understand the importance of the environment we live in more. They will also begin to see themselves as part of this nature. Thus, they will comprehend the importance of sustainable energy while building the world of the future. Our project will have longer effect with the integration of designing smart house into the curriculum"