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Friday, 23 March 2018

Slovenian survey about literature

We asked our pupils (8 to 10 years old) these two questions in January and in June 2017.

Friday, 16 March 2018

Tuesday, 13 March 2018

Wednesday, 28 February 2018

Survey after Global Warming - Latvia

Wednesday, 24 January 2018

Survey before Global Warming - Latvia

Wednesday, 20 December 2017

Questionnaire_meeting_Larissa(Greece)

The students of the 5th and 6th grade( 20 in total) answered the following questionnaire based on their own experience:

-How often do you use computer for meteorological needs during a week?

Only ten of them replied that they have just one thermometer at home to check occasionally the weather temperature.

-How many European flags can you recognize?

Students were shown photos of different European flags and were asked to tell to which countries they belonged to..they were all eager to reply and enthusiastic about this activity;especially,the 5th graders took the initiative and drew on their notebooks flags of the countries they knew,or could remember. Furthermore,with the help of their English teacher,and based on their English schoolbook, the students of the 5th grade had to find the nationalities of certain European countries. In addtion to that,they were given flag sketches for them to draw and since we're close to Christmas holidays,we had the idea of hanging them on the wall in the shape of a christmas tree.

-How many words can you say in foreign languages?

The answers here were varied, since many students are being taught foreign languages, both at school (English and French) and through tuition classes at home. Also, some students (about 10%) have Albanian or Romanian origin so, they replied eagerly.

-Have you got any friends in foreign countries?

The students from both grades replied negatively, but a couple of them mentioned that they have relatives abroad, with whom they often communicate through the Internet or cell phones.

-How often do you check temperature and pressure during the week?

Once again, there were negative answers...they referred that it is something their parents do, and again, not very often...

Monday, 11 December 2017

GLOBAL WARMING_continue research...(Greece)

The little journalists searched and found...

The students talk about global warming, the greenhouse effect, what causes them and their consequences to peoples' health.

Just like little journalists, they got informed through scientific magazines and newspaper articles. They gathered information and answers like the ones that follow:

Although it may not have directly been perceived or realized by people, climate change and global warming have already started, creating enough problems and increasing the severity of weather phenomena.

2. According to a research carried out by Berkeley University in California, the Earth's temperature has been increased by 1,5 Celsius degrees, since the late 19th century.

3. The largest part of global warming started in the 1960s, which is shown on this map and it reveals the most vulnerable areas in our planet. Actually, few areas, closer to Antarctic, have frozen more since the 1960s, whereas, some parts of the Arctic have warmed up, up to 15 degrees.

4. The natural cycle of climate explains why the increase of temperature has occurred unevenly and spasmodically. During the last half century, it has coincided with increαse in carbon dioxide emissions from our rapidly industrialised world.

5. Floods are usual in November because this month is one of the rainiest months throughout the year. Some of their features though, like tension, allows us to to connect these phenomena with climate change.

6. Our students, because of the floods that have lately taken place in Greece, and more particularly in Mandra (photo), which resulted in many people losing their lives and their belongings, they got troubled, talked about it and connected this phenomenon with climate change.

Conclusion: the challenge our scientists have to face for the next half century, is to find a way to stop carbon dioxide emissions, and therefore, climate change.