UNESCO Passport

The project UNESCO Passport is Erasmus + project. There are four partners in this project (Croatia, Italy, Cyprus and Spain). The aim of the project was to investigate our cultural heritage under the protection of UNESCO and share knowledge with other partners. We were motivated to start this project by the need to include teaching about cultural heritage into the educational process. One of our objectives was to create a digital UNESCO Passport that would integrate all processed content of each partner school.

Partners in the project:

The Elementary School of Hvar, Hvar, Croatia

Hijas de la Natividad de Maria "CPR San Jose", Pontedeume, Spain

The Heritage Private School, Limassol, Cyprus

Istituto Comprensivo Cassano Magnago II, Cassano Magnago, Italy

Initial Survey
Students from 6th grade of Primary Education to 3rd of Secondary Education have taken an online test related to the Erasmus+ project “Unesco passport” through which we have been evaluating their previous knowledge about the topic.
In the following graphs we show the number of answers of the students of each participating course as well as those that have been answered correctly.
At the end of the project we will go back to the survey and it will be time to know how much our students have learned throughout this two-year experience!

Galician Heritage
We have been doing the first group of activities of the project in our school. First of all, we began with the thinking routine "I see, I think, I wonder" using for that a picture of the wall of Lugo. After that, we did a brainstorming and we established the steps we must follow to create our timeline. Finally, using cooperative work, we have investigated about the wall's history, giving importance to its built, the historical conflicts of the city and its naming as UNESCO World Heritage.

Lugo's Wall
We have been investigating about the roman times in Lugo, concretely about the organisation of society in that period, the clothing of each social class and the pottery art that used to be there.
Students of 3rd grade of Secondary Education did the first activity. They built 6 big boys and girls mannequins that represented the social classes in Lugo in roman times.
They have also done an investigation, followed by an exposition about the clothing of the different roman social sector by teams: each one was in charge of a kind of clothing, and then they had to dress one of the mannequins. For that purpose, they made paper patterns and then, they cut them using different materials.
After this activity, our students of 1st grade of Secondary Education, investigated about roman pottery, specifically about the Lugo´s one. They have learnt different techniques to work with clay and they represented some of the most used objects in that period.

Environmental Context of the Tower of Hercules
Spanish students from 4th grade of Secondary Education have worked on an interesting investigation about the darkest part of one of our most emblematic monuments, considered World Heritage🌎: The Tower of Hercules.
This activity consisted of searching for information about the environmental disasters that took place near this monument. Among them, we can highlight the following oil tankers 🛳 which crashed and poured high quantities of petroleum in the coast of Galicia: “Urquiola” in 1976, “Mar Egeo” in 1992 and “Prestige” in 2002.
We expressed the most outstanding data derived from this investigation in a board, where you can see the definition of each disaster, its place and year, as well as its causes and consequences. 🌊
Thanks to this activity, students have known a little bit more of the history of this roman lighthouse so symbolic for Galician people.

Online Meetings
We have resumed the activities of our Erasmus+ project "UNESCO Passport", which had to be postponed due to the pandemic. Luckily, we had the opportunity to celebrate “Erasmus Day” on the 16th of October.
In order to commemorate this day, the Spanish students in 1st year of Secondary Education had a Zoom meeting with our friends from Croatia and Cyprus. They were able to greet them and chat for a while. Italy could not participate, but they sent us a very cool video!
After greeting each other, we sang the song “If You Are Happy and You Know It” in the different languages. Afterwards, the Croatian students introduced us to several words related to our heritage and we also pronounced them in all the languages in the Erasmus+ project. Finally, we cheerfully bid farewell to our friends.

Tower of Hercules Models
Over the last few weeks, the Spanish students in 2nd year of Secondary Education have been working on the construction of a model of the Tower of Hercules, a task included within the Erasmus+ Project “UNESCO Passport”. As you may know, the Tower of Hercules, in A Coruña, is the oldest Roman lighthouse still in use nowadays. It is considered a national monument here in Spain and it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2009.
In spite of the fact that mobilities have been cancelled because of the current sanitary situation, we continue to work on the project. That is the reason why our students have carried out this interesting and creative activity. After a research on the most representative elements of the monument, they have made a recreation of it, using recycled materials, cardboard, etc.
Here you have some images where you can see some examples.
We have enjoyed this activity so much!

Paphos Mosaics
The Spanish students in 2nd year of Secondary Education have had the opportunity to work with mosaics, an artistic expression that has brought colour to the walls and floors of Europe for thousands of years.
Following the topic agreed with the partner countries, the students have produced their works with motifs from the animal and plant world. First of all, they made the sketch, choosing a beautiful design and an accurate colour range. Then, they used coloured cardboard to make the pieces. They pasted them on a black background, so that the artistic creation could achieve greater relevance and colour.
They have enjoyed the activity so much. It has been really interesting and enriching and they have learnt a lot about the Paphos mosaics.
You can see the results in these pictures. We hope you like them!

INSIDE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA CATHEDRAL: RESEARCH ON ITS ARCHITECTURE AND ART
As part of the Erasmus+ Project “UNESCO Passport”, the Spanish students have carried out an interesting research on the architecture and art of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral.
The current sanitary situation did not stop them from working in this activity about one of the most important landmarks in Galicia. As you might know, the cathedral is considered to be the burial place of Saint James the Great, the apostle of Jesus Christ. It is also one of the only three known churches in the world built over the tomb of an apostle. Nowadays, the Old Town in Santiago is considered a World Heritage site in Spain.
Santiago de Compostela Cathedral has historically been a place of pilgrimage on the Way of Saint James since the Early Middle Ages and marks the traditional end of the pilgrimage route. The cathedral has a Romanesque structure, with later Gothic and Baroque additions.
The Spanish students have approached the Romanesque and Gothic architecture and art, trying to visualize and exemplify the most remarkable differences between both styles.
In the first part of the work, the students made a series of posters in which they explained the architectural particularities, focusing on the arches, buttresses, windows, rose windows and the various ways of representing religious scenes in painting and sculpture inside the cathedral.
With all this information they had to catalog a series of photographs in order to identify features from both styles. The last part consisted of creating original murals, albums or presentations based on 18 photographs that had to be imitated, or in Polaroid format.
Their creations show beautiful images, including the Pórtico da Gloria, an early work of Romanesque sculpture, created by Master Mateo in 1188.

Celtic Nations
The students from 7th Grade created a project framed within the Erasmus+ “UNESCO Passport” Project about Celtic Nations and their relationship with Galicia.
To carry out this activity, they first made a brainstorm naming all those places that are considered part of the Celtic Nations. For this, they made an online research to identify all those regions they could work with.
After that, the class was divided in four working groups, and each one chose one of the regions that interested them more to know about its celtic origins and its traditions, always looking to find some similarities with those festivities or customs that we have here in Galicia.
The next step was doing a little research about the different nations: Brittany, Galicia, Scotland and Wales were chosen by each group. But we didn’t forget to also look for information about Ireland, Asturias, Isle of Man and Cornwall, that as we learnt, are also part of the Celtic Nations.
As a class, but maintaining the safety distance at all times, all the members of the group created a Jamboard to present all they had found about each place.
With this activity they learnt how to identify each location on a map (in which you can find a QR code to scan and see the presentations made by each working team). And they also learnt that, no matter the distance that separates one region to another, we can always find likeness to our own, Galicia.