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The great worldoutside here Thereis no place for youTEAM:SCHOOL:COUNTRY:COACH:TEAM MEMBERS:(age 12)Jewellery BoxAlgyői Fehér Ignác Általános IskolaHungaryEmese Ficsorné RétiMartin Csarnai, Bálint Demecs, Zsófia Gábor, Renáta Hegyi, Laura Horváth, ViktóriaKorponai, Edina Kucsera, Gergő Molnár, Viktória Molnár, Balázs Nemcsok, ÁdámOrszág-Sugár, Dániel Papdi, Peter Qell, Károly Schulcz, Tamás Sándor, Alexandra Szabó,Anna Szekeres, Laura Szekeres, Vivien Temkó, Vanessza Tóth, Balázs VidácsROLES, TYPE OF DECISION-MAKING AND LEADERSHIPMy role as a teacher was quite complex. Not the decision making concerned but theorganizing things. From the beginning the motivation of the pupils was very important.As I worked with 12 year-old children, from the challenging their attendance to therealization, it was a hard work and my main role. I had to organize the steps of realizationand the time line of the project. In other hand I had to motivate my colleagues, too.As the matter of fact the main decisions were made by the pupils. The teacher’s role wasonly to offer some ways and create them and they decided.PROJECT DESCRIPTIONTOPICOur topic was Ecological Footprint. Our main aim was, that pupils get know the conceptof the ecological footprint and learn different techniques and methods to count it. Wewanted them to learn how to search for different information on the Internet or how touse the Green Library of the school. We aimed the counting ecological footprint on thelevel of individuals, families, class and school. We hope that children will take theseideas home and their parents will be influenced by these things.MAIN ACTIVITIES▪▪At the beginning of the project children watched a thought-provoking film called TheEleventh Hour. It was shocking for them. Also from this film they got a lot of very interesting,exciting and shocking information.▪ ▪They made posters inspired by the film. It was interesting to see, that most of them feel,that they are responsible for our future. There are some really enchanting conceptions.▪ ▪An article about our project was published in the local paper called Algyői Hírmondó.▪ ▪We planned the place, measure and form of the project wall where we put activity results.HU▪ ▪We organized a logo-planning competition. They voted and the winner became our logo.▪ ▪They looked for some information and data about the ecological footprint, they discussedthe experiences. We formed the concept of the ecological footprint.▪▪They filled in a form about the ecological footprint individually28 Schools Taking Action For Europe’s Environment