HAYDİ DÜNYAMIZI VE GELECEĞİMİZİ BİRLİKTE KURTARALIM

<< Background >>In our project, we aimed to emphasize that climate change will have many devastating effects for future generations and that immediate measures should be taken in this regard. Due to climate change, millions of people do not have access to clean water. Studies show that this number will increase by 20% after 30 years. According to research, if temperatures rise more than 2 degrees Celsius; climate change will become irreversible and will have major long-term effects. Climate change is a major threat that every country and region feels its effects alike. As citizens of our planet, our students should be encouraged to become aware of the growing global climate change and adopt environmentally friendly habits. It is of great importance for students to embrace nature and the environment, and to take action and make their voices heard on issues related to climate change. With our project, we aim to bring responsibility towards nature to students, teachers and parents and to contribute to the 21st Century in line with the 2023 vision.century skills; We aimed to provide students with critical thinking skills through problem solving, project-based learning and inquiry-based learning, and learning by doing.<< Objectives >>By carrying out the project, it is aimed to raise awareness about environmental problems and to persuade the school community to take action and be conscious about it. In addition, it is aimed to develop the skills of using different web and digital tools in teaching practices and creating innovative activities and teaching strategies. While students from different countries are trying to communicate with each other, it is aimed to improve their common language, English.The unification of Turkey, Portugal and Spain will constitute a big impact in the cities where the project is carried out in order to explain the destructive effects of climate change on living things to the students, parents and all the people who can be reached. Students are expected be individuals who don't waste and preserving individuals who are both equipped with 21st century skills and who are environmentally conscious. Morover, Students will realize the importance of learning a foreign language.<< Implementation >>Students introduced their countries to each other with presentations, had the opportunity to teach important words and sentences from their own language to the students and teachers of other countries, questions about the environment were answered in a fun way using Kahoot and awareness was created, information about the environment of the countries they visited was fun with the Geocaching application, and Web2 tools were used. They prepared animated films about the environment, made orienteering and trekking activities, collected garbage at tree planting festivals. They involved in their activities. Compost has been made and it has been shown that waste can be treated in a different way. Creative drama activities were carried out with puppets made from wastes and empathy was established with endangered animals. STEAM and poster preparation activities were held. All the works were presented in the form of a festival with the participants of all countries.<< Results >>Students, parents, all reachable students, that climate change will have devastating and destructive effects on all living things. The unification of the countries of Turkey, Portugal and Italy has been effective in the institutions where the project was carried out. Environmental awareness has been created in students and parents. There has been an %36 increase in the number of students who are equipped with 21st century skills, who are environmentally conscious and who do not waste their future. While trying to communicate, students realized the importance of learning a foreign language and had the opportunity to improve themselves in language. Our students and teachers, who had the opportunity to observe different cultures on site, got to know European culture and had the opportunity to introduce their own cultures.