Partners meeting in Norway 14.-19.02.2012
Tuesday 14th of February:
- Guests arrived in Norway at different times. All of them stayed in Lillehammer Hostel.
Wednesday 15th of February:
- Bus from Lillehammer to the Vingrom school. The leader of the parent’s council welcomed our guests. Pupils in classes 3, 4, 5 and 6 presented their works about the participating countries. Pupils guided the guests around in the school. Konstantina was interviewed on NRK – radio about the project. The guests visited classes working with different learning methods guided by members of the pupil’s council.
Project meeting: Guðrun Soffía wished welcome to the first meeting. All participant schools reported what they had been working on since the last meeting in Tallinn. In short:
- POLAND: Malgo showed us some PowerPoint presentations made by students from Zielonka. They had worked on building constructions of different homes in Zielonka with the focus on materials, heating methods and the use of energy. They had also made posters about how to save energy in their homes. They did a debate where the students were divided into two groups: People from the green party vs. people working in industry. They voted for or against some law proposals. This debate lasted 40 minutes and it was filmed. Weather charts were made and compared with the other countries. Skyping with Iceland was a great event for the students. Poland finished the work with the multilingual dictionary containing 59 words/phrases. Each country got 10 dictionaries. Great job!
- GREECE: 5th class created a questionnaire on different house constructions, energy use and how they can save electricity and do recycling. They made statistics on materials, heating, recycling, supply of water nad how they lighten up their homes. They measured the weather and sent to the other countries. They didn’t have a debate where they played different government officials. They thought it would too difficult for the 4th grade. Instead they worked on recycling of garbage. They made musical instruments of recycled garbage (bottles, boxes etc.) and had a performance where they used these.
- ESTONIA: The website is updated and dropbox is OK. Some students had a play. They played different animals who were discussing ideas about energy saving. These ideas were accepted or declined. This was video typed.
- ICELAND: Students in 4th and 8th grade made PowerPoint presentations on how to save energy in their homes. 4th grade made videos on how to save energy in their homes. à appeals: “Stop using your computer and go out and play”, “Turn off the light before you go out.” “Use the towel instead of the dryer.” Because of a LOT of snow on Iceland in January this year, the 4th grade went outside to learn how to make snow houses. Students sew the Icelandic flag to give to the students in Norway. An architect came to school to talk about building construction of houses on Iceland – how they used to build houses and how they do it today. He also talked about how the houses can be improved to be environmentally friendly. The students made houses from cardboard boxes. The students made histograms about the use of energy in their homes. These were put on the walls so the students could compare. 8th grade have filmed a debate with governmental officials discussing different law proposals on energy production.
- NORWAY: 1st – 4th grade have worked with measuring the weather. 4th grade has worked with the dictionary. It is sent to the drop-box. 4th grade has worked on how they used energy in houses 200 years ago and how we use energy nowadays. They made posters of this and of how we can save energy. 7th grade arranged debate in their classroom. They discussed some of the ideas about energy saving in their homes. They talked about different law proposals. 5th – 7th grade made drawings with different ideas on how to save energy in their homes.
- ITALY: 4th grade has made PowerPoint presentations on how to save energy. They worked with this in their daily, regular lessons. They also studied how to save energy, the history of energy and how they use energy nowadays. We saw pictures from pupils’ workbooks. They made a questionnaire about saving energy. 3rd grade filmed a drama about saving the environment by not throwing garbage in nature. New governmental rules on how to build houses and save energy will be discussed in the classes.
- Minibus from Vingrom to Lillehammer. Sightseeing in Lillehammer and surroundings. We continued up to the mountain area Sjusjøen for dinner. Went back to Lillehammer and the west side of the river Lågen where we tried some Norwegian tastes.
Thursday 16th of February:
- Bus from Lillehammer to the Vingrom school. Assembly where all pupils participated with songs, dances and drama. Guests visited classes and gave lessons. Guests took part in different outdoors winter activities with the pupils: Skiing, skating, sledging, curling, bandy and “spark”.
Project meeting: We had a discussion on how the models of the SMArt houses could be built: The way they are built in the actual country, or should it be the “dream house”? In which size should we build them? Shall we see inside the houses? Elements from the culture in the country. Make a couple of houses that you can see inside, but rest of the houses in the neighbourhood can be “closed”? Materials that can be used: Cardboard boxes, wood, clay, recycled materials. Create a neighbourhood in each country. Each country will take pictures and videos of the process and the result. Lina from Italy will make a catalogue – printed and digital. Materials and a description of the work shall be sent to her. Deadline 1st of May.
The description of the process should contain: Materials. Design. Energy saving. Recycling of waste. Why is it an environmentally friendly house. Why is it a “green” home?
Make a big model of a house - a dollhouse with no front to show the inside. This shall be a “green dream house”. Then six small models will be made, five of them to take to Greece in June, and one to keep. In this way all the countries can have a neighbourhood with houses from all six countries.
- Bus from Vingrom to Lillehammer. Dinner at Lillehammer Pizzeria & Resturante.
Friday 17th of February:
- Bus from Lillehammer to the school. Visiting classes 1. – 4. “Rainmaker day”. Guests participated in energy activities and competitions with classes 5. – 7.
Project meeting: Visit on Chios on June 12th to 17th. Dimitrios informed us a bit about their economic situation and how they have to work to prepare our visit to Chios in June 2012. We’ll work on the final report the first days of the project meeting on Chios.
The dropbox: Each country must check what they have put in the dropbox and e-mail Reet to tell her what they want her to publish on the website. When we put something in the dropbox we e-mail Reet, too.
Kept on discussing about how to share ideas of “dream houses”. It should be realistic.
Catalogue: Each paragraph should contain a short description plus a photo. At last: Why is the house green? Make a summary of all the chapters in the description.
- Bus from Vingrom to Lillehammer. Drove from Lillehammer to the Hunderfossen Winter Park in private cars. Visited the Hunderfossen Winterpark where we had dinner in the Trollsal.
Saturday 18th of February:
Project meeting:
The models: The big house will be an energy saving dream house which we can look into either by opening the front wall, take off the roof or not build a front wall. Every country decides themselves which size, materials and design, but the house should have elements from architecture in the country. We make a description and take photos of the model house so it is possible for the pupils in the other countries to build small models of the house. Deadline is May 1st.
The small models: The size should be 20-30 cm X 20-30 cm. We choose materials ourselves. It’s possible to make a model made of cardboard to look like a wooden or a brick house. We won’t think about anything but the outside when we build the small models. Each school decides themselves how many models they want to build.
The catalogue: Deadline is May 10th. We e-mail the material to Lina to work it out in a printed and a digital version. Information needed/paragraphs:
1) Materials 5 – 10 lines 2) Design 5 – 10 lines 3) Energy saving 5 – 10 lines 4) Recycling 5 – 10 lines 5) What make the house green 5 – 10 lines
Photos: Big photos of the house from all the different directions. 1 to 3 photos per chapter/paragraph. Some photos from the preparation/the work. The photos will be used both in the printed version of the catalogue and on the website.
- Visited the open air museum Maihaugen. We had a guided tour in the Garmo church, in the main house on Øygarden and in the house from 1950. Lunch at Maihaugen. Met at Tonje’s for some snacks. Sledged down to the city center to Morten’s where we common dinner.
- Guests arrived in Norway at different times. All of them stayed in Lillehammer Hostel.
Wednesday 15th of February:
- Bus from Lillehammer to the Vingrom school. The leader of the parent’s council welcomed our guests. Pupils in classes 3, 4, 5 and 6 presented their works about the participating countries. Pupils guided the guests around in the school. Konstantina was interviewed on NRK – radio about the project. The guests visited classes working with different learning methods guided by members of the pupil’s council.
Project meeting: Guðrun Soffía wished welcome to the first meeting. All participant schools reported what they had been working on since the last meeting in Tallinn. In short:
- POLAND: Malgo showed us some PowerPoint presentations made by students from Zielonka. They had worked on building constructions of different homes in Zielonka with the focus on materials, heating methods and the use of energy. They had also made posters about how to save energy in their homes. They did a debate where the students were divided into two groups: People from the green party vs. people working in industry. They voted for or against some law proposals. This debate lasted 40 minutes and it was filmed. Weather charts were made and compared with the other countries. Skyping with Iceland was a great event for the students. Poland finished the work with the multilingual dictionary containing 59 words/phrases. Each country got 10 dictionaries. Great job!
- GREECE: 5th class created a questionnaire on different house constructions, energy use and how they can save electricity and do recycling. They made statistics on materials, heating, recycling, supply of water nad how they lighten up their homes. They measured the weather and sent to the other countries. They didn’t have a debate where they played different government officials. They thought it would too difficult for the 4th grade. Instead they worked on recycling of garbage. They made musical instruments of recycled garbage (bottles, boxes etc.) and had a performance where they used these.
- ESTONIA: The website is updated and dropbox is OK. Some students had a play. They played different animals who were discussing ideas about energy saving. These ideas were accepted or declined. This was video typed.
- ICELAND: Students in 4th and 8th grade made PowerPoint presentations on how to save energy in their homes. 4th grade made videos on how to save energy in their homes. à appeals: “Stop using your computer and go out and play”, “Turn off the light before you go out.” “Use the towel instead of the dryer.” Because of a LOT of snow on Iceland in January this year, the 4th grade went outside to learn how to make snow houses. Students sew the Icelandic flag to give to the students in Norway. An architect came to school to talk about building construction of houses on Iceland – how they used to build houses and how they do it today. He also talked about how the houses can be improved to be environmentally friendly. The students made houses from cardboard boxes. The students made histograms about the use of energy in their homes. These were put on the walls so the students could compare. 8th grade have filmed a debate with governmental officials discussing different law proposals on energy production.
- NORWAY: 1st – 4th grade have worked with measuring the weather. 4th grade has worked with the dictionary. It is sent to the drop-box. 4th grade has worked on how they used energy in houses 200 years ago and how we use energy nowadays. They made posters of this and of how we can save energy. 7th grade arranged debate in their classroom. They discussed some of the ideas about energy saving in their homes. They talked about different law proposals. 5th – 7th grade made drawings with different ideas on how to save energy in their homes.
- ITALY: 4th grade has made PowerPoint presentations on how to save energy. They worked with this in their daily, regular lessons. They also studied how to save energy, the history of energy and how they use energy nowadays. We saw pictures from pupils’ workbooks. They made a questionnaire about saving energy. 3rd grade filmed a drama about saving the environment by not throwing garbage in nature. New governmental rules on how to build houses and save energy will be discussed in the classes.
- Minibus from Vingrom to Lillehammer. Sightseeing in Lillehammer and surroundings. We continued up to the mountain area Sjusjøen for dinner. Went back to Lillehammer and the west side of the river Lågen where we tried some Norwegian tastes.
Thursday 16th of February:
- Bus from Lillehammer to the Vingrom school. Assembly where all pupils participated with songs, dances and drama. Guests visited classes and gave lessons. Guests took part in different outdoors winter activities with the pupils: Skiing, skating, sledging, curling, bandy and “spark”.
Project meeting: We had a discussion on how the models of the SMArt houses could be built: The way they are built in the actual country, or should it be the “dream house”? In which size should we build them? Shall we see inside the houses? Elements from the culture in the country. Make a couple of houses that you can see inside, but rest of the houses in the neighbourhood can be “closed”? Materials that can be used: Cardboard boxes, wood, clay, recycled materials. Create a neighbourhood in each country. Each country will take pictures and videos of the process and the result. Lina from Italy will make a catalogue – printed and digital. Materials and a description of the work shall be sent to her. Deadline 1st of May.
The description of the process should contain: Materials. Design. Energy saving. Recycling of waste. Why is it an environmentally friendly house. Why is it a “green” home?
Make a big model of a house - a dollhouse with no front to show the inside. This shall be a “green dream house”. Then six small models will be made, five of them to take to Greece in June, and one to keep. In this way all the countries can have a neighbourhood with houses from all six countries.
- Bus from Vingrom to Lillehammer. Dinner at Lillehammer Pizzeria & Resturante.
Friday 17th of February:
- Bus from Lillehammer to the school. Visiting classes 1. – 4. “Rainmaker day”. Guests participated in energy activities and competitions with classes 5. – 7.
Project meeting: Visit on Chios on June 12th to 17th. Dimitrios informed us a bit about their economic situation and how they have to work to prepare our visit to Chios in June 2012. We’ll work on the final report the first days of the project meeting on Chios.
The dropbox: Each country must check what they have put in the dropbox and e-mail Reet to tell her what they want her to publish on the website. When we put something in the dropbox we e-mail Reet, too.
Kept on discussing about how to share ideas of “dream houses”. It should be realistic.
Catalogue: Each paragraph should contain a short description plus a photo. At last: Why is the house green? Make a summary of all the chapters in the description.
- Bus from Vingrom to Lillehammer. Drove from Lillehammer to the Hunderfossen Winter Park in private cars. Visited the Hunderfossen Winterpark where we had dinner in the Trollsal.
Saturday 18th of February:
Project meeting:
The models: The big house will be an energy saving dream house which we can look into either by opening the front wall, take off the roof or not build a front wall. Every country decides themselves which size, materials and design, but the house should have elements from architecture in the country. We make a description and take photos of the model house so it is possible for the pupils in the other countries to build small models of the house. Deadline is May 1st.
The small models: The size should be 20-30 cm X 20-30 cm. We choose materials ourselves. It’s possible to make a model made of cardboard to look like a wooden or a brick house. We won’t think about anything but the outside when we build the small models. Each school decides themselves how many models they want to build.
The catalogue: Deadline is May 10th. We e-mail the material to Lina to work it out in a printed and a digital version. Information needed/paragraphs:
1) Materials 5 – 10 lines 2) Design 5 – 10 lines 3) Energy saving 5 – 10 lines 4) Recycling 5 – 10 lines 5) What make the house green 5 – 10 lines
Photos: Big photos of the house from all the different directions. 1 to 3 photos per chapter/paragraph. Some photos from the preparation/the work. The photos will be used both in the printed version of the catalogue and on the website.
- Visited the open air museum Maihaugen. We had a guided tour in the Garmo church, in the main house on Øygarden and in the house from 1950. Lunch at Maihaugen. Met at Tonje’s for some snacks. Sledged down to the city center to Morten’s where we common dinner.
