ENERGY+PROJECT+2011-12

= "U4energy-Together we can!": Campaign of __Greek__ and Polish __Schools__, Primary and Secondary Education =

== = Aim of the project = == For the 2011-12 school year, five schools of Primary and Secondary Education from Greece (Eastern Macedonia – Thrace and Central Macedonia) and Poland, collaborated and organized a major campaign for energy efficiency. One high school, one gymnasium, two elementary schools in Greece and one elementary school in Poland collaborated for an awakening and awareness campaign for energy efficiency in order to participate in the European competition U4energy. The campaign spread from the island of Thassos, Chrysoupoli Kavala and Thessaloniki to Poland, with participating teachers, 3 Professors of Physic Sciences, 1 Headmaster and 2 primary school teachers from Greece, 2 Professors of Physic Sciences and 1 Professor of English from Poland coordinated by the Counselor of Primary Education (3rd District Kavala), who worked with 150 Greek students and about 350 Polish students for more than 5 months for a common aim, to inform and awaken students, teachers, parents and citizens from local, national and European society for energy savings. All their activities enrolled in a European eTwinning program «Everyday Life at Primary School» and posted on the website:http://everyday-life-at-primary-school.wikispaces.com/ENERGY+PROJECT+2011-12, in order to exchange ideas and information and furtherspreadthe message ofsavingenergy. == = =

The whole program in a tripadvisor film :
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= Gymnasium of Chrysoupoli =

== Students after they searched informations for energy savings in internet in class, they made power point presentations, questionnaires for a survey concerning energy savings, affiches and brochures and a document with 10 bulllets for energy savings in Greek: ==

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= On 20 of June, students and teachers presented all their activities and their survey for U4energy in front of students, teachers and parents, students were awarded for their participation in U4energy and they distributed their document with the ten rules so as to awaken them for energy savings. = =  = = =

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= Elementary School of Panagia Thasos =

== and they will present a theatrical performance for Energy, which they wrote by themselves in a big celebration in their school in the end of the school year in front of students, parents and teachers, so as to distribute their document with the rules to save energy and to awaken them: ==

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== = U4energy Campaign = = Elementary School of Chrysohori =

They also made models for renewable sources of energy:
= On 13 of June students and teachers presented all their activities and a thetrical performance for U4energy in front of students, teachers and parents, they distributed their document with the ten rules so as to awaken them for energy savings. = = You can see photos of their great job in a Picasa Album: = = [|Picasa Album] = = = = On 20 of June the teachers of school of Chrysohori presented the program U4energy and their activities in front of 150 teachers in a big meeting that the Counselor of education of Crysoupoli and Thasos organized where they distributed their document with the 10 ways to save energy. =





= Hellenic-French School, Kalamari =

== The event " Spring Festival " will take place on Sunday, May 13, from 10.30-22.30, on the premises of the Greek-French School Kalamari (Avenue Georg.School 44). Admission is free.The visitors are around 1600 people and approximately 1000 students every year. In this event, there will be a " kiosk" u4energy, that students (and in particular section A2) will edit. They will inform visitors about the action u4energy and our campaign for Energy Savings, every 15 minutes. == = = = 24-04-2012: Big campaign for energy savings - Gymnasium of Chrysoupoli = == 25 students of Gymnasium of Chrysoupoli made a big campaign with questionnaires and distributed the document for Energy Savings to the street market of Crysoupoli, so as to awaken as many students, teachers, parents and people of their schools and their local society as they can. ==

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**25-04-__2012__: Great festival in Gymnasium of Chrysoupoli, with students of Chrysohori** **Almost 60 students of Gymnasium of Chrysoupoli made a presentation of their work for the campaign for energy savings, with 40 students of elementary __school__ of Chrysohori who presented their song for energy, in a __big__ festival in front of 300 students of Gymnasium and 300 students of __High__ __School__ and their teachers. They also distributed their common document. There were two presentations given, __one__ for students of Gymnasium and __one__ for students of __High__ __School__.**

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**Power Point of Gymnasium of Crysoupoli that was presented in the festival:**



**Power Point of Crysohori that was presented in the festival:**

= 13-05-2012: Hellenic-French School, Kalamari = = The event " Spring Festival " took place on Sunday, May 13, from 10.30-22.30, on the premises of the Greek-French School Kalamari.The visitors were around 2000 people. There was a " kiosk" U4energy, where students from High School (and in particular section A2) presented a movie that they made based upon the power point presentation that the gymnasium of Chrysoupoli made for energy savings: = = = = media type="youtube" key="uTQ_M1zfyic" height="315" width="420" = = They also made a song and they presented it in "Spring Festival": = = = = =

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 * and they presented o Power Point to inform and awaken the 2000 people that visited their festival for energy savings: **

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 * Photos from the Festival "Spring Day", High __School__, French - Hellenic __School__, Kalamari, Thessaloniki: **
 * They also made the signal U4energy with their bodies in front of all the people who visited the Festival: **

**Szkoła Podstawowa nr 9, Dzierżoniów, Poland** **The whole __school__ students took part in an ecological (__green__) week at __school__. There were many activities for every __student__ to promote ecology and energy saving:** 1. What to do with waste: - waste segregation - recycling (a meeting with a person from local government about recycling in our region)

2. How to save energy and renewable resourses of energy: - posters made by students of Years 3,4,5

- presentations made by students of Year 6 media type="file" key="U4energy.wmv" width="330" height="330" 3. Assembly (by students of Years 1 and 2) about ecology and energy saving with advice what to to to save energy in the __world__. 4. We use the U4energy website to find out a lot of useful information. 5. In May we are __going__ to __take__ part in an energy saving campaigh in our __home__ town. =More photos there are in the film below:= =media type="custom" key="17739486"= And 11 ways to save energy (we added : save water): media type="custom" key="17743356"

On 12 th May 2012 we took part in European Solar Days pcnic in Dzierżoniów, where we found out how we can get energy from the Sun and from the wind. Our students took part in an __art__ ecological __competition__ - they won 1st and 3rd place. Details see in the presentation we made: media type="custom" key="18445060"

Polish students made posters promoting ecological __life__ and use of renewable sourses of energy. At __school__ we made exhibitions with the best works as well as with the 11 ways how to save energy in everyday __life__: media type="custom" key="18450024"

In our __school__ webpage we also put some information about U4energy project: [|HERE]