Our smART stories 

Yoana Friendship beyond the colours

Nikol &amp; Vanesa - Say NO to falsification

Once upon a time there was a white cloud, which was taking a walk, and she decided to go and see the sea. When she got to the sea she saw a strange substance that came from a boat, and then she was curious and decided to swim with her. Back home, the cloud saw herself in the mirror and noticed that it was no longer white, but had turned black. Leaving the house and going to school, the cloud noticed that his mates and his friends were white and then the cloud felt different, but over time he saw that gradually his friends also got that dark color. Then she decided to investigate this fact and after her research the little cloud discovered that it was the fault of oil, of industries ... and that these facts had already occurred and that this form takes the name of air pollution. The cloud looked for&nbsp;a remedy to for herself and for her friends, and she discovered that unfortunately there is no solution except the contribution of people, to stop air pollution and to save the world. LETIZIA COSCO 3B

Long time ago there was a dog called Mark. He was sad because he wasn’t free and he wasn’t free because he didn’t have a family and he lived in a kennel. One day, a guard forgot to close Mark’s cage. So, he tried to escape from the kennel. He jumped off his cage and tried to reach the exit of the kennel, which was closed. After that, Mark started crying while he was going back to his “jail”. The next day an happy family went to the kennel. They were looking for a cute and young dog, when they saw Mark. They decided to take him with them. At last Mark was happy with his new family! ANDREA NOCERA 3B

It's over! We can't fix anymore! The pollution of sea has exceeded, all living things&nbsp;that live in the sea are dead! &nbsp;It is now rare to find a fish or a shark. The whales are extinct such as sea turtles, dolphins and many other sea animals. But one day, a girl who is walking on the shore, looks &nbsp;at the shoreline and sees &nbsp;a small fish trapped in a plastic bag. She takes &nbsp;it and brings &nbsp;it home. She puts &nbsp;it in a glass bowl. It is safe now but she can’t remove the piece of plastic, the cloth peg that is attached to his tail, and the girl leaves &nbsp;it. All people are&nbsp;incredulous when she says &nbsp;she has &nbsp;a little fish at home, but it is true indeed! And the fish is better in the small glass bowl than in the great sea!&nbsp; MARIO VERALDI 3D

One afternoon Luca and two of his friends went out on bicycles and fed up with the usual rides in the city, they decided to go to the countryside. When they arrived&nbsp;they decided to make a race for those who arrived first at the end of a road, and when they finished the race and all three reached the finish line they noticed that a few steps away from them there was an abandoned house. They were curios and went towards&nbsp;that &nbsp;house and the closer they came, the more they heard a person cry and ask for help. Luca entered the house first and saw a girl crying and her mouth and hands tied, they immediately approached her and began to untie her and ask her &nbsp;what had happened. The girl at first &nbsp;did not answer him, but Luca insisted on his questions convinced her, and the girl told him that her ex-boyfriend had beaten her. Luca helped her to get up and asked if her mother knew, and she replied that she couldn’t &nbsp;tell anything to anyone because her boyfriend&nbsp;threatened her. &nbsp;Luca and his friends looked at each other and spoke to convince her to report everything to the police and tell her mother.&nbsp;But the girl was silent and only nodded. Luca and his friends offered to give her a lift home, and once they arrived the girl thanked them and said that she would report everything.&nbsp; MARIA BIAMONTE AND FRANCESCA RIZZUTO 3D

Nouskali Georgia, Tsatsi Nicoleta Animal rights

Lika &amp; Julia Air pollution is everybody's problem&nbsp;

Maria Poulioni, Victor Souxix, Kleida Sermadi, Alger Sade, Georgia Mpedouli Animal rights

Carla &amp; Claudia - Women's&nbsp;rights&nbsp;

Once upon a time two young&nbsp;boys strolling on a lord’s large and beautiful farm saw an unattended pickup small truck full of&nbsp;abandoned &nbsp;poor chickens locked in cages. Those chickens were in bad conditions, they were thin and plucked&nbsp;and they were suffering in those cages, then they decided to take the situation in hand and call someone to help them. So they decided to call a&nbsp;friend who lived in a farm not far from there. They asked him to help them free the chickens. When their friend arrived they took away quickly the&nbsp;chickens and took them to their friend’s farm. Here the chickens could live free in the nature,&nbsp;healthy and happy!&nbsp; BENEDETTA CASALINUOVO 3D

A long time ago a girl entered a café&nbsp;to drink a glass of water, but while she was about to drink, the water in the glass spoke to her and asked for help, saying that before she was pure and fresh, but man's hand had ruined everything and she wanted to be as she was before. &nbsp;The girl promised to help water and save her. &nbsp;At first she tried not to throw things on the street anymore, but she saw that it was useless because she needed everyone's help and then she made a demonstration against water pollution and explained that to make nature be as before it was necessary first of all not to throw garbage on the street, to recycle, not to use too many detergents because they are toxic, stop&nbsp;to use plastic and learn to use recyclable things ... &nbsp;In this way water will finally be as it was before. ANGELA COSCO 3B

eTwinning Project - 2019/2020 SmART Democracy! Creativity to promote Democratic Participation

Based on eTwinning partners' smART photos

Authors: I.C. Vivaldi's students - Classes 3B and 3D Lower Secondary School - Catanzaro, Italy

At first Giacomo was a very&nbsp;spiteful boy. Every day instead of going to school and following the lessons like a normal boy, he went to the nearby café&nbsp;where, with the money he had to sped for school reasons, he bought and he ate various snacks and sodas. And not only. As soon as his bizarre banquet was over, he would throw away all the waste and aluminum on the ground without making any recycling. In short, he was a real brat. Suddenly as he was about to bite his sandwich, instead of the ham, there was a big piece of plastic on his plate. In the end after waking up from that strange nightmare he decided not to pick up school anymore and not to pollute anymore.&nbsp; MATTIA VITO SIRAGUSA 3D

A long time ago, Princess Aurora lived in China. She had to find a husband and according to her father’s will, she would&nbsp;marry the young man who would solve three puzzles proposed by her. Afterwards, the three Chinese ministers spread the news throughout the kingdom. Short after many people showed up at the meeting organised by the Princess. All &nbsp;failed but shortly after an unknown prince arrived at the castle and solved all the puzzles. He would become her husband. Meanwhile a servant of the court discovered the name of the mysterious prince and said it to Aurora. His name was “Love”. In the end Aurora fell in love with the prince, because he had solved all the puzzles and decided to marry him.&nbsp; PAOLO BARBERIO 3B

A long time ago in a little place lived a boy named Kabil. He wanted to be friends with a lot of people, but he had a problem, he could not integrate for his skin’s color. So, every day, Kabil tried to color his skin with a nearly flesh pink colour, but every time he left some uncolored pieces. His mates discovered it and immediately didn’t speak to him. One day Kabil met a girl: her name was Grace. This girl was very beautiful but she had his same “problem”: she was unable to integrate. Then Kabil and Grace became friends and thus they had their first friend at school. FRANCESCO CHIARAVALLOTI 3B

Lika and Julia Air pollution is everybody's problem

Our world is sick and we must take care of it and try to use alternative energies, such as the electric car, wind turbines to create energy from the wind and solar panels. Most of the time people don't care much about the environment, and they throw litter, &nbsp;papers, plastic &nbsp;and cigarettes on the ground because they don't understand that we the world we will leave to our children and grandchildren, will be a dirty and more polluted world than now. So I say that if we love our family we try to pollute less, a great contribution would be not to always take the car but go by bike or even on foot and have a nice walk.&nbsp; ANDREA DE VITA 3B

The protagonist of this story is a woman, the Queen of Water. She wanted to be respected by men and&nbsp;no longer have plastic and rubbish in her house, lakes, rivers, seas… They were too polluted. Nobody could drink water&nbsp;in her reign because it was not known what could be inside it, plastic residues and dirty stuff. The queen tried to solve the problem by reducing plastic production and increasing paper production. Since there were no more boats in the seas the presence of oil in the waters decreased. For this reason fish also came to life by &nbsp;swimming freely in the waters. She was happy and celebrated with a glass full of clean water! SAMUELA NANIA 3B

It was New Year's Eve and we were taking a walk when we found ourselves near a farm. The farm in question was that of uncle Giorgio, where we saw chickens in cages and it didn't seem right, so we tried to free them. In that precise moment uncle Giorgio left his house because he heard some noise and came to check, but we got away and he didn't see us. The next day he noticed that the chickens had run away and he told us that he used to put them there at night because there was a fox nearby and he wanted to protect them. What a tragic misunderstanding! But we told uncle Giorgio that all animals deserve respect, even when we act to protect them. EUGENIA MANCUSO 3D

This story is about two characters: Sea and Plastic. The Sea wanted to go back in time when there was no pollution. Before Plastic was born the Sea was cleaner, more colourful, its inhabitants were healthier and certainly happier. The causes of pollution are due to man and a lack of respect for nature. Man leaves waste on the beach and the Sea swallows and carries it.&nbsp;&nbsp;Finally to clean up the waters, a machine called Ocean Cleanup has been invented. It collects plastic waste from the sea using ocean currents, the same that led to the creation of the plastic islands in the water. Plastic waste accumulates in the platforms and the Sea cleans itself "by itself". We all have the right to go back in time when the water was clean! FRANCESCO CASALINUOVO 3B

Ivana Dineva: The right to have fresh, clean water!

Robert was a twenty-nine year-old man and he lived in London. He didn't have a job, but the falsified credit cards to many people and he always got away with them.&nbsp;One day he accidentally met one of his victims,&nbsp;Giovanna, who reported everything to the police. Finally Robert&nbsp;became aware of all the serious consequences that brought him to act in this way. Howewer , he continued all this until he was denounced again.&nbsp;He remained in prison for five years and he had to pay a debt of over $10000.&nbsp;After that he was released from prison and paid the debt, Robert decided to put the past behind&nbsp;him and start a new life. In conclusion he had a beautiful family with two children and a wife and he became a good person.&nbsp; ALDO RICCIO 3D

Nouskali Georgia, Tsatsi Nicoleta Women's rights

Once upon a time there was a group of girls who had the symbol of women tattooed on their wrists, to protest against violence towards their gender. They organized many demonstrations to spread this message, but violence continued to be there. They continued with the demonstrations but they were disappointed that no one cared about their problem, so they decided to make a small film with videos of women telling their experience after being abused. So they were able to spread the message of non-violence, and men understood what they were doing wrong. MASSIMILIANO PITINGOLO 3B

One day Carla decided to go to the beach with her friends… As soon as they arrived they put all the bags under an umbrella. While her friends were putting on the sunscreen, Carla decided to dive. But that day the water was very dirty. She decided to take a swim off the coast and to get her hair wet she suddenly dived and she couldn't breath anymore. She was trapped in a plastic bag. The girl screamed and her friends immediately went and saved her. This makes us understand how important it is to save the world from the plastic that surrounds us. GIADA FACCIOLO 3B

Nouskali Georgia, Tsatsi Nicoleta Animal rights

The main characters of the photo are two bad guys: Carbon (Dioxide) and Gas (Gases). Carbon Dioxide and Gases are pollutants. In the past with the industrial revolution they started to pierce the ozone layer because man used gases in the industries. The problem was that the ozone layer had very big holes that let ultraviolet rays come to the Earth. This problem was not solved by the gases but by the fact that in this period we're all at home. To conclude I think that this period was really bad for anyone but the problem of air pollution was solved in part by using less cars and working less in industries. We have to make this sacrifice even in the normality and fight against the two bad guys, because air pollution is everybody's problem! FABIANA GALEOTA 3B

Once upon a time there was a bottle named Federica. This bottle was bought by a family. At first everyone liked it, mom and dad and their little daughters, too. One day, after drinking the water inside, Federica was left on the beach.&nbsp;At first she was so afraid to be alone but day after day she was overwhelmed by the sea. At that moment she was not aware of what was going on . A storm came and left Federica with other rubbish on another beach. At first she did not understand how she had arrived, but then she talked with Cordelia,&nbsp;a plastic bag, who told her that she had been abandoned, after her family had devoured the chips she contained. Cordelia told her that many people,&nbsp;after eating, leave their dirty stuff on the beach, causing pollution.&nbsp;In order to fight pollution you don't have to throw or leave dirty things around, especially plastic stuff! DENISE FAZZARI 3B

One day a woman called Sam Jones decided to look for a job. After many attemps she saw an ad on the Internet with a message on it. There was written “Work in politics wanted”.&nbsp;She immediately sent a message with her mobile.&nbsp;After this she was immediately invited to&nbsp;an interview and went to the place. But as soon as a gentleman entered the room where she was waiting, he looked at her and told her that he had thought it was a man, because of her name, and told her that he was sorry but only men could apply for that job. The woman didn’t give up and told him she wanted to talk to his chief. So he took her with him and they reached the chief’s office. The woman talked to the chief and finally she convinced him to let her try to work for him. She told him that women must have the same rights as men and the same opportunities! The man was moved by the woman’s words and he understood he was wrong and finally he apologised and gave her that important job.&nbsp; ZAIRA COROSANITI AND PRECIOUS MAHOLIS 3D

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