ABOUT THE PROJECT

The aim of the project is to let students get in contact with nature by leaving behind all those technological inputs that are nowadays part of our everyday life and make our senses become numb. Our school curricula are usually focused on knowledge and don't allow them to satisfy their needs and solve emotional problems. So we will show the students and their families how to develop healthily and harmoniously in full contact with nature. We will let the students participate in different activities to let them understand how to make a complete use of their senses in a natural environment. We will increase their awareness of the strong relationship between humans and the place we live in. We will replace virtual contacts with more involving phisically active ones and enhance students' abilities to deal with stress. We will broaden their knowledge concerning biodiversity as well as the rules of behaviour in natural landscapes and help them find inspiration for their lives in the future.

2. AIMS

Creating the conditions in which the students will be able to build a contact with nature, giving them a chance for creative play in natural surroundings, Developing their interests environmentDeveloping a positive attitude towards natureBroadening their knowledge about natureEnabling the students to discover nature in a polysensorial wayEliminating their fear of natureLowering the level of stress, hyperactivity and development deficits

3. PROCEDURE

We are going to share the different tasks of the project with all our partners in full agreement with the coordinating school. We will keep in touch for all the necessary information regularly through e-mail exchanges and WA chats. The students selected will prepare the activities in meetings which take place every two weeks at school with the supervision of the teachers and trips outside will be organised in order to let them get in contact with nature.All the school activities will be chosen according to the aim of the project and will focus mainly on the relationship between teenagers and our environment.The activities have already been planned during the first teachers' meeting and will be carried out according to the following schedule:1. Creating the project logo2. Bird and animal competition3. Plants and flower competition4. Creating a calendar5. Experiencing a night out in nature6. Taking part in the mobilities planned 7. Visiting national parks (quizzes about them)

4. EXPECTED OUTCOMES

We are going to improve our school curriculum, especially the educational spaces by bringing plants into them; we will create our school gardens; we will make lesson scenarios about nature and positive relations with it; we will establish cooperation with other European schools; we will incorporate their programmes into the teaxching methods based upon contact with nature; we will learn how to use nature for therapeutic purposes; we will learn about the Europena ways of environmental protection; we will create companions on the polysensorial way of discovering plants and using them in a practical manner.