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"This project helped raise awareness about climate issues, natureprotection and how to teach such significant and complicate themes topreschool children. Also, to exchange the good practice ideas aboutenvironmental education and sustainable development at preschools.The project title is ""Inside and out of the Beehive. What goes insidethe Beehive and outside is one of the most amazing stories in nature"".Beehive is also a comprehensive symbol for the preschool. The bees arepictured as children who are navigating in and outside of the building(beehive).During this project, teachers got more ideas about involving childrenand their parents in different activities. The main project goal was to raise the staff's professionaladvancement—improvement of the knowledge about sustainable developmentand environmental education. These priorities were linked to the preschool's curriculum and usedin the everyday learning process.We gave children the opportunity to share their insights. All partnerstogether had the same theme, e.g. growing plants, preparing veganfood.Turing the project, there were the following actions for the children:the honey-making process were introduced; children visited localfarmers and visited the Natural History Museum, where researchersexplore nature, including bees.- plant life circle, from seed to plant, fingers in the soil. Composting- recycling old material, making new toys and presents. Some partnersvisited a waste management station and exhibitions about recyclingmaterial.- water theme. Different type of experiments with water. Each partnerapproached it from a different angle.- climate issues. Akranes kindergarten made photos every week andafter compiled presentation how the weather has changed.- kindergartens participated all together in warm jumper day; loweringthe heat in the rooms.- teachers used digital learning tools; all partners merged film clipsinto one long movie.https://drive.google.com/file/d/19wiI4pg9aymfNHidX3muOhyK40rW4grC/view?fbclid=IwAR3lsexsHQY2tMMWkymoXZ01iVk8v6QlmjyvW2_1qlAqjE5poa3USQeRq6Q All participants disseminated project results in their preschools andneighbourhood kindergartens. https://twinspace.etwinning.net/79046/pages/page/515145"
