ERASMUS+ ESD Train the Trainer towards the Green Deal – Educational Resources

Nature Trust – FEE Malta through a KA122-VET project set out to train as many of its educators as possible about three main themes highly relevant in Education for Sustainable Development.

The first mobility was aimed at giving educators more confidence in using technology and adapting its use to promote ESD topics.  It mainly consisted of learning to produce animations,  that is short videos, to drive a message across.  They had the opportunity to interact with other educators from different countries and different ages, discuss different approaches and perspectives and also through hands on workshops produce  such animations.  Participants were then asked to share their experience with other educators to widen the exposure experience.  Those  more adventurous later went a step further and guided their students to do the same.  Here are the resulting animations:

Learning to use Stop Motion for animations – part of an ERASMUS+ project

  1. Sustainable Mobility
Animation produced by Ms Censina Curmi & Ms Stephania Gauci. This animation focuses promoting the use of sustainable means of transport while keeping our environment safe and clean. https://youtu.be/LyIQkmIKIqI
  1. Pauli’s First Day at School – Being an Eco-Warrior
Ms Censina Curmi together with the Eco-Schools Committee at St Paul’s Missionary College created this animation using Clipchamp to share with other students and the whole community. Their Eco-Code is…
S – Switch off the lights
P – Pick up waste
M – Make it happen
C – Change the world
Together we can make a better place.
https://youtu.be/LGlV2xsr1h8
  1. Farm Animals
Ms Melissa Grima, Mr Christian Saliba and Ms Valeria Caruana from St Francis School, Victoria, Gozo produced this animation on their second attempt! A lot of info about farm animals on the Maltese Islands. https://youtu.be/Pc7R7-eYG5M
  1. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Ms Josephine Jesse Mercieca and Ms Lorna Camilleri produced this animation as a first attempt.  The aim is to raise awareness about single used items and how they end up in the sea and how they effect the bird and sea life.  Wildlife mistakenly eat garbage thinking it is food.  They are asking for our help. https://youtu.be/8PI2yisPJGA
  1. Using pallet wood to build a wall garden – reusing and upcycling
Ms Josephine Jesse Mercieca, from Gozo College Sir Arturo Mercieca Rabat Primary School produced this animation to show how the EkoSkola Committee used discarded wood to build wooden pots for a wall garden. https://youtu.be/lueyL7-P9TE
  1. Save marine life with Ceku the Turtle
Litter – damage and how long it stays in the environment
Ms Melissa Grima, Mr Christian Saliba and Ms Valeria Caruana from St Francis School, Victoria, Gozo created this stop motion video to help children understand the damage done by litter when it ends up in the environment and how long it takes to breakdown. https://youtu.be/0G1oG7v-4ds

7. Green Dreams – New beginnings

Ms Judith Smith and Ms Karen Vella Pace from St Nicholas College, Rabat Middle School created this stop motion to show that we can always improve drab places by adding greenery – Plants, trees, flowers attract insects and wildlife, making places attractive and relaxing.  https://youtu.be/R7ZcBtnlHd4 

8. Local Vegetables

Ms Melissa Grima, Mr Christian Saliba and Ms Valeria Caruana from St Francis School, Victoria, Gozo produced this animation as part of a year long project to promote local products and appreciate the work done by farmers.

9.  ‘Improvements… or not?’

Ms Judith Smith and Ms Karen Vella Pace from St Nicholas College, Rabat Middle School with the help of students decided to create awareness about the way currently local developers/government/local councils are ‘improving’ our local communities by ‘updating’ green areas to create outdoor spaces for families….or so they think.  In doing so they are creating area full of concrete where nature is not invited.  Green areas are being lost for ‘green’ or not so green spaces.

https://youtu.be/I5s-bVC71qk

The second mobility was a Train-the-trainer course on Marine Litter Education.  Participants in the mobility had various opportunities to learn about marine litter and single use plastics, meet various other educators from different countries, students, share experiences and resources and create new ones. They also had the opportunity to learn about the related EU law on marine litter, design a beach monitoring and cleanup event, use the resource educational pack “Know, feel, Act! to Stop marine Litter”, design related games, do interviews with locals including fishermen, taverna owners, port facilities and local authorities, visit a plastic recycling factory BLUECYCLE, HELMEPA, the Centre of Environmental Education of Lavrio, SHEDIA HOME, make crafts using tubes and tires by CONVERT ART, do role play about making Behavioural Changes in plastic consumption, visit a school, do a beach cleanup and collect related data, watch an underwater cleanup demo.  They also met up with MEDASSET to learn about marine litter threats for animals especially turtles.  Well, a very packed mobility,  which also resulted into outreach to over a hundred other educators in Malta and the creation of the following education resource pack full of related lesson plan and activities which can be downloaded from below.

You will find lesson plans and activities complete with worksheets and resources for various subject for ages ranging from KG 1 to Year 11 plus a professional development session for educators!

The third and final mobility was focused on Education for Alternative Water Resources. The educators participating in this mobility learned about the Alter aqua educational resources, non conventional water resources, various other water related materials and programmes of MIO-ECSDE, followed a water tour in Athens exploring Museums, Sites & Monuments, visited the Marathon Dam and its water museum and a water supply and sewerage company, learning about different water and wastewater treatment systems, did a guided study visit of Erasinos River – a NATURA2000 site experiencing ways to do educational sessions for different ages and abilities around wetlands, marshes, meadows and linking to biodiversity.  All this was done linking to various curriculum and extracurricular themes in the company of other educators from Greece, Cyprus and Spain. This mobility also resulted in the production of an educational resource pack including various creative lesson plans and activities which provide students, young people and the community in general with lots of insights and other learning opportunities about the importance of water, our dependence on it and how to use it wisely and sustainably.  The resource pack can be downloaded from bottom of this page.

The resource pack contains various lesson plans and activities, all focused on water conservation,  ranging for age groups from KG 1 to Year 9, various subjects,  also including two special sessions for students with different abilities, three audit sessions for the Eco-Schools committee and one session suitable for a Cub Scout group.

Enjoy the resources! Should you wish to give feedback, ask queries or obtain a copy of a particular resource please send an email to [email protected]

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DISCLAIMER: The production of all animations and lesson plans, resources used in them,  information, etc are the sole responsibility of their authors/creators.