Escola Secundária de Mira de Aire 2012 World Environment Day Project Earth

1. OUR SCHOOL THINKS GREEN
Mira de Aire and Alvados Secondary School
PORTUGAL

2. WE CARE!
• Hello everyone!
• Our school has about 600 students (K-12) and
environmental concerns are present in our every day life as
a school community.
• In this presentation we will show you some of the projects
we have implemented throughout this school year, projects
that make us proud, as we have already been able to
achieve some changes towards environmental awareness.
• Our projects started in September 2011 and will end in July
2012.

3. CHRISTMAS TREE
RESULT
STUDENT INVOLVEMENT
COLLABORATION
PURPOSE
To show that The tree was The school Undoubtful
it was mainly built community innovation
possible to by 12th grade helped and creativity,
build a students after getting the the local
Christmas classes necessary newspaper
tree with amount of published an
reused plastic bottles article about
materials to build the it
tree

6. BUILDING OUR OWN LANDFILL
CONTEXT
• This project was done in the Natural Science classes with 8th grade students
• It is being carried out in April, May and June
• Students have been participating actively in the selection of materials, research and
implementation of the project
• This project has enhanced their learning beyong the regular classroom curriculum
PURPOSE
• To learn about the importance of landfills and how they work
• To understand one of the most common methods of dealing with waste materials
• To test the microbial degrading process of landfills
• To determine which solid waste materials are biodegradable

8. TWIST PROJECT
PURPOSE:
To promote energy efficiency and
CONTEXT: environmental concerns in our school and
“Twist” is a project for secondary school among young children (6 to 9-year-old
students. It deals with energy efficiency children).
and climate change. We believe children have the ability to
change their parents’ attitudes towards
the environment.
TARGET:
School community
PROMOTERS:
Primary school students
10th grade students in collaboration
with the school library
DURATION:
Throughout this school year

9. PROCEDURES
TWIST PROJECT • Students started with about
energy efficiency. They were glad to see that most
people already had some sort of environmental
awareness and energy efficiency concerns.
• After the surveys their mission was to determine
. They
concluded that energy and water consumption were a
bit high and noticed that the school could adopt some
measures to reduce them.

10. PROCEDURES
TWIST PROJECT
• Based on their diagnosis, students informed the school
headmaster about what he should do to solve some of
the problems detected. They also decided to display
about energy
efficiency tips so that both students and teachers
could adopt an environmentally-friendly behaviour.
• Number of lamps in the classroom
• Lamp voltage
• What people can save if they turn
off the lamps after classes
• What people waste if they do not
turn off the lamps after classes

11. PROCEDURES
TWIST PROJECT
• Students then decided to hold
aimed at .
• Their goal was to promote energy efficiency and
environmental awareness. They also wanted to motivate
these young students to have an active involvement in
their community while promoting a sustainable
environment.
• They worked in close collaboration with the school
library.
• The result of the information sessions was amazing and
made them feel very well. The goals were accomplished
and they noticed that .

13. Two of the information sessions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7GFjFbq3aU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45onO_h7vE8

14. RECYCLED CARNIVAL MASKS
Our school promotes a Carnival Parade every year.
It is a big event in which all students and teachers participate.
Our art teacher decided to do something different with her students this year: Carnival
masks made with recycled materials only.
Turn the page to see the results! 

18. ECO-BATTERY PROJECT
Our school is also participating
in the eco-battery project this
year
We want to prevent people
from throwing away used
AIM: to collect used
batteries, so we have
batteries so that they can be
placed specific containers
recycled
for disposal of used
batteries all over our school

20. PLANTING TREES
We are aware of the
importance of trees and we
Our National Tree Day was So we decided to plant some
wanted to do something
celebrated on March 21st trees in our school
positive for the environment
at the same time
We worked in collaboration
We are proud of our olive
with the Mayor and local
trees! 
authorities (town council)

23. CARING FOR OUR SCHOOL
Students are aware of the importance of school in their lives. A clean
school makes it even more pleasant to be there.
8th grade students decided to promote cleaning activities so that
other students can adopt an environmentally-friendly behaviour
and keep their school clean.
This has been happening on a regular basis, one time per month.
They have also drawn some posters, which were placed all over
our school, to promote environmental awareness.

26. « ECO-POINTS »
“Eco-points” are We have “eco-
recycling containers points” spread all
in Portugal over our school
Some of them were
even made by our
students. All
classrooms have
their own recyling
containers

28. CLASSROOM HEADMASTER’S OFFICE
TEACHERS’ ROOM

29. ECO-SCHOOL PROJECT
• We are also participating in • The aim of this project is to • We try to raise awareness
the Eco-Schools Project. This promote sustainable for a sustainable
project is promoted by the development through environment in our school
Foundation for environmental education community every day
Environmental Education, a (formal school education, through our projects and
non-governmental and non- training of staff and general actions.
profit organization. awareness raising).

30. Plastic bottles as flowers
Plastic balls as foam

32. MESSAGE TO THE 7 BILLION PEOPLE
After watching the
documentary “Home”,
by Arthus Bertrand, and
in celebration of the 7
billion people in our
planet…

33. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz9yOgYqqCw

34. WORD CLOUDS
As part of an They decided
eTwinning project to create some
9th grade students word cloud
were asked to
accomplish a Environment pictures (using
Tagxedo application)
creative task
related to the and
environment...
eTwinning

36. Collecting plastic, cell phones and paper
Plastic
Besides our many
projects, we are also
collecting plastic,
Bottle
Paper used cell phones and
caps
paper for
organizations that ask
for our help
Cell
phones

37. Plastic campaign
Cell phone campaign
Paper campaign
Plastic bottle cap campaign

38. • Energy efficiency, sustainable environment,
environmentally-friendly behaviour, environmental
CONSIDERATIONS
awareness, are all part of our .
Today’s youngsters will be tomorrow’s leaders and it is
as teachers to prepare them well for a
.
• With these projects we, both students and teachers,
feel that . Our
FINAL
projects are mostly and we like to
see students take the lead in investigation, research
and implementation. We do believe these projects
improve and beyond the
regular classroom curriculum.

39. were used in
CONSIDERATIONS
our projects as often as possible and we also try
paper in our school by creating and using electronic
documents instead of printing them.
• The main aim of our projects is others –
younger and older students, school staff and even teachers –
as well as parents and our . We often
write to the local newspaper to keep the community
informed about what we are doing and sometimes even ask
FINAL
for their help and/or .
• The of these projects meets their designed goals
and we keep promoting them.

40. CREDITS
CHRISTMAS TREE
Special thanks to: LANDFILL
Done by: In collaboration with: teacher(s) in charge:
Rosário, J. teacher(s) in charge:
Miguel, F. Camponês, J. Monteiro, F.
Torres, A. Dias, P.
Antunes, J.
“CARING FOR OUR SCHOOL”
TWIST PROJECT CARNIVAL MASKS ECO-BATTERY PROJECT PLANTING TREES
PROJECT
teacher(s) in charge: teacher(s) in charge: teacher(s) in charge: teacher(s) in charge:
teacher(s) in charge:
Camponês, J. Filipe, S. Camponês, J. Almeida, J.
Monteiro, I.
ECO-SCHOOL MESSAGE TO THE 7 BILLION “COLLECTING PLASTIC, PAPER
“ECO-POINTS” WORD CLOUDS
teacher(s) in charge: PEOPLE AND CELL PHONES” PROJECT
teacher(s) in charge: teacher(s) in charge:
Matias, R. teacher(s) in charge: teacher(s) in charge:
Camponês, J. Miguel, F.
Camponês, J. Miguel, F. Almeida, J.

41. CREDITS
SCHOOL WALL Escola Secundária de Mira de Aire e Alvados
Mira de Aire and Alvados Secondary School
PORTUGAL