Earth day 2023

Earth Day 2023

Short description:
The celebration of "Earth Day" is an opportunity to stop and reflect on the importance that planet Earth has for each one of us. Thus, starting from the results of their ecological footprint, students will reflect and express their appreciation of the various subsystems that make up planet Earth.

Main Goal:
• Alert to the importance and need to preserve the planet's resources.
Goals:
• Promote environmental education through educational activities to encourage awareness of the importance of environmental conservation.
• Recognize the role of oceans and marine biodiversity.
• Recognize the role of forests and biodiversity on the planet.
• Recognize the role of the atmosphere and air quality for living beings.
• Recognize the role of soil and subsoil for living beings.
• Create messages that demonstrate the importance that each of the terrestrial subsystems has for each student.

Work process
Calendar:

April 17th
• placement, in a common area, of tree branches (without leaves);
• photocopy and cut out the various “tree leaves”.

April 17th to 21st
• construction of the ecological footprint of the class: use https://www.footprintcalculator.org/home/en (select language). Each student responds to the survey, and, at the end, they indicate their result to the teacher. After recording the results, the teacher will calculate the class/school average and enter the result in the TwinSpace of the project.
• awareness of the importance of conserving the environment.
• reflection on how each terrestrial subsystem is important for each student.
• elaboration of a short sentence, per student, where the importance that one of the terrestrial subsystems has for him is evident.
• distribution of a “tree leaf” on paper for each student where he will write his sentence; it is suggested, whenever possible, that the outer margin of the sheet can be painted depending on the subsystem that the student highlighted using the following color code: green (forests), blue (oceans, seas, rivers), brown (soil, underground), light blue (atmosphere).
• the class group with the respective teacher placed the leaves on the tree.
• Photograph the “before” and “after” of placing the sheets with the students' messages. Place the final photo in the project TwinSpace.

Expected results
The final product will be shared in a public twinspace as well as the results of the various ecological footprints of each country involved.
The construction of messages will be an opportunity for individual reflection on the importance that the planet has for you.
A final presentation will be made with all the data collected and trees with messages built by all the students, which will be shown on the screens of the schools involved.

Partners

Earth Day 2023

Agrupamento de Escolas de Parede: schools

Our ecological foot print

2023 - April 17th to 21st: The older students from the Agrupamento (ES Fernando Lopes Graça and EB Santo António) aged between 12 and 18 used https://www.footprintcalculator.org/home/en to determine their ecological footprint. At the end, each student reported their result to the teacher.
The data of 760 students regarding their ecological footprint and the number of Earth consumed in relation to their life style were treated.

6,8 Ha
4,1 Earths

Before...

At Escola Secundária Fernando Lopes Graça, the school where the group is headquartered, our “tree” was created from the paper recycling container.

This base was chosen to draw attention to the fact that trees are the raw material for paper production.

Using paper rationally and placing it in collection containers for recycling is a way of preserving our forests and all the biodiversity they contain.