Recycling and ecological footprint

3rd Makedonitissa public kindergarten“Stylianos Lenas”

Cyprus

Head teacher: Charita PalateTeachers: Vicky KayiaAndri Oikonomidou

July kalathaDespina Ioannou

Fairytales

• “Mr. Ben, Mou and the garbage”

• “Help trash save us”

• “Once upon a time in the neighborhood garbage”

• “The Mayor rubbish”

• “The recycling Lady and her friends”

Mathematics

• The ladder of recycling

• Solve problems in the little shop with various empty packages with prices

Group packages with the same material

Puppet Show

• The paper plate cant decide what will be transformed after recycling

• The fairytale that denies to be recycled

Science

• “They observe if the plastic and paper are altered when they are into the soil and water" The objective: To prefer paper packaging rather than plastic.

Melt the newspaper add some glue and flour to make a new paper.

Useful Websites• Video showing the process of garbage• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQpzVyTNZj

4• Recycling electrical equipment• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS54FMM-

8Oo• Ecological footprint animation• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP1nzCqoT9

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Cooperation with local authority

• A city hall employee informs children about renewable sources of energy and recycling.

• The children sent an invitation to the Mayor to visit the exhibition of creations with recyclable materials made by the parents of the school and the children.

We announce recycling contest among the three classes forbatteries, plastic and paper. The winner is the class that collectsthe most recyclables. All three classes managed to get a prize.

Contest of artcrafts made by recyclables. Winner are all the parents and children that made all

that magnificent artcraft.

Journalists will cover the event of the exhibition and make a publication at the municipality’s journal.

Cooperation with the primary school

• The primary school visits the exhibition.

• The primary school invites us to watch the theatre play about sustainable development.

At school we recycle

• Lids recycling. Cooperate with a medical centre to raise money for the purchase of wheelchairs.

• Collect clothes for the Charity shop

Collect oil

Composting

Plastic, paper and batteries

Parents were invited to attend children’s classroom course on sustainable development.

• The children watched the video “plastic planet”.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73sGgmZoMBQ

• There was a discussion with the children and then developed the subject emphasizing on literacy tasks.

• Objective :Through the children's statements to inform parents of the planet is in danger and to reflect to change habits.

Good practices

• The children were given:

Eco bags to put their drawings and for shopping

•Energy saving ticket blocks. Every time they save o save power energy they cut a ticket as proof and ask their parents 50cent. The winner is the one who manages to cut all the tickets and gathered the most money.

•Poster for their room that reminds them to turn off the lights.

•They learn to write the 3 R :Recycle , Reduce, Reuse

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Observe the helicopter with solar panel. The propeller spins when it

accumulates solar energy

They put stickers on the walls with the sign “Turn off the lights”

They draw and write their own ecological fairytales

Research for parents’ behavior on their ecological footprint

• To see how big is the ecological footprint of our school parents there were 4 groups of questions:

• Food (if they eat meat every day, if they throw what is left, if they buy local products)

• Travel (The distance they cover with the car, if they prefer their country for vacation, how they go to school, how many cars they have)

• Housing (how big is their house, what sources of energy use, how much electricity they waste, how much water they use, if they have a swimming pool, if they do recycling & composting)

• Members of the family (how many brothers they have)

Results of the research• We disseminated 75 questionnaires and they returned

only 32.

• 62.5% of respondents have a large ecological footprint. That means that If everyone behaves like them we will need more planets in to meet their requirements because the natural resources are not enough.

• 37.5% of the respondents have moderate ecological footprint and their presence on Earth is detrimental.

• None of the respondents has the appropriate ecological footprint that suggests that they respect the planet Earth.

To reduce our ecological footprint we signed an agreement to:

• Save energy

• Prefer renewable sources of energy

• Reduce shopping

• Recycle and reuse

• Eat healthy, eat vegetables and local products.

Plant seeds, bulbs and small trees

Protect animals

Beautiful places of Cyprus

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqAQQvP5O8