esfalp_v_-_web_small.pdf - European schools for a living planet

The ecosystemserviceTEAM:SCHOOL:COUNTRY:COACH:TEAM MEMBERS:(ages 12-13)Spartium junceumScuola elementare Pier Paolo Vergerio il Vecchio, Capodistria / KoperSloveniaMarjan FlandiaAlen Cickovic, Rebeka Kocjancic, Mateja Jakac, Sara Paola Calcagnini, David Renko,Juri Costa.ROLES, TYPE OF DECISION-MAKING AND LEADERSHIPWe have been working together on the project trying to avoid the relation teacher -students. At the beginning of the project I guided the project but then the students takethe leadership and run out with own ideas.PROJECT DESCRIPTIONTOPICWe have been working towards recognize that our life is tightly related to the nature.We began to asking us, who provide us, every morning when we get up, the cereal weeat, the air we breathe, the water we drink...and we chose the topic: Nature services inother words the topic we worked on was the Ecosystem services.MAIN ACTIVITIESOur group focuses on understand how the ecosystem services operate and why itis important for all of us. Once understood that the glass of clean, cold, clear waterdrawn from our faucet because it has been purified by wetland or by root system ofentire forest, that the trees in our front yard work to trap dust, dirt, and harmfulgases from the air you breathe and give us the clean air and we we considered thatthe cereals we eat is brought to us each morning by the wind, sun and soil we beganwith our activities. On the one hand we were doing more research to improve ourknowledge about the ecosystem services on the other we did some activity to awarenessother people and students.So the main activities we did:▪▪research about the ecological system▪▪educate other students about the importance of ecological systems▪▪educate other people through image, art, poetry▪▪restore the ecological habits in the fire areaSLOTo achieve this goals we:▪▪learnt about ecological system▪▪wrote the broschure about ecological systems56 Schools Taking Action For Europe’s Environment