Turkish Team

On 8-9 March 2021

The students, teachers and parents of Arkas Science and Center, in Izmir, Turkey participated in the online education program organized in cooperation with DenizTemiz Association / TURMEPA (Turkish Marine Environment Protection Association). The subject of the training program is The Importance of Seas and Water Resources, Marine Creatures and Their Importance, Where Seas are a source of Oxygen, areas seas are used, Marine Pollution, Global Climate Change and Our Seas, Recycling & Upgrade, ZERO WASTE, ZERO WASTE BLUE, Our Individual Responsibilities, Plastic hazard.

The teachers and students of Arkas Science and Art Center in Izmir-Turkey put the wastes into recycling bins and also work on reducing plastic wastes.

The Ecological Brigades wrote their ideas on «How can they reduce plastic waste at home and at school?» on a padlet. https://padlet.com/hatbuk/v86r13jsnukgc559

How we want the ocean to be in 2030?

The students of Arkas Science and Art Center in Izmir-Turkey thought of the question and accepted the challenge.

This is the video of our Ecological Brigades’ works.

On 29 March 2021

The students and teachers of Arkas Science and Art Center in Izmir-Turkey participated in the 3rd online education program organized in cooperation with DenizTemiz Association / TURMEPA (Turkish Marine Environment Protection Association). The subject of the training program is The Importance of Seas and Water Resources, Marine Creatures and Their Importance, Where Seas are a source of Oxygen, areas seas are used, Marine Pollution, Global Climate Change and Our Seas, Recycling & Upgrade, ZERO WASTE, ZERO WASTE BLUE, Our Individual Responsibilities, Plastic hazard.

The plastic works of students with their Technology and Design Teacher of Arkas Science and Art Center in Izmir-Turkey.

Plastic wastes can be transformed into beautiful designs with small touches and additions. You can make a pet bowl for your cat at home, a waste battery box at school, and a flower pot for your flowers in your room.

The Logo Competition

The Logo Competition of our Erasmus+ KA229 «There is sea and sea … there’s an entire ocean to take care of!» is over. The winner is Italian school with 824 votes.

Congratulations to the Italian School!

Students from the partner countries were challenged in creating a Logo for the project. Each country selected its best logo to be submitted to the European School Communities. The European voting has been realized between 14th-28th April 2021. There was a great participation with more than 2000 votes!

The results are as follows:

ITALY: 824 votes
Bulgaria: 539 votes
Turkey: 544 votes
Estonia: 105 votes
Portugal: 480 votes

8 June 2021

On World Oceans Day, June 8, 2021, the Ecological Brigades of Arkas Science and Art Center in Izmir-Turkey made posters; wrote slogan, story and poems; and also searched for articles and news about the oceans. A video was prepared with these works.

October 18-22, 2021

The preparatory meeting between partner schools was held in Portugal, Odivelas, Agrupamento de Escolas Moinhos da Arroja between the dates of October 18-22, 2021 with the following agenda:

Operationalization and implementation of the project; standardization procedures on field trips and laboratory activities (including lesson plans);

Workshops about eTwinning projects implementation on TwinSpace; Google Earth and Marine LitterWatch Tools; the implementation of marine plasticology sessions; the creation of learning scenarios using programming and robotics in ocean literacy; creation of interactive art objects with programming insertion (makey makey with scratch);

Job shadowing about marine plasticology sessions with 1 class (4th Grade, Primary School), learning scenarios using programming and robotics with 1 class. (Kindergarten).

Erasmusdays was celebrated at Arkas Science and Art Center in Izmir-Turkey. In the program, presentation on Erasmus Programs, European Union and National Agency, the works of our project called Erasmus+ KA229 «There is sea and sea… there is an entire ocean to take care of!» done in 2020-2021 School Year and presentations about the preparatory meeting held in Portugal on October 18-22, 2021 and the Learning Teaching Training activities to be done in the next two years. A Kahoot game and a concert prepared by our Music students also took place in the program.

«Marine Plasticology Sessions» have started at Arkas Science and Art Center, Izmir in Turkey. Our students started a very enjoyable journey. They had a lot of fun during the whole lesson.

4th grade students watched videos and presentations about marine pollution and decomposition time of plastic wastes. They observed the rubbish material in the sand box, wrote the types and quantities of waste in the tables and did the fishing food activity.

During the laboratory activities, 5th-6th grade students found interesting the sand, crustaceans, waves, and stones that changed color when wet. The students examined the sample given to them with a magnifying glass. They sorted out what they found different and interesting. Then they examined the sand samples with a magnet. They discovered that mostly black grains of sand were attracted by the magnet.

«Marine Plasticology Sessions» continue at Arkas Science and Art Center, İzmir-Turkey. This week, in Chemistry class, students do an «Ocean acidification activity».

Our aim is to create awareness by providing information about the chemical hazards caused by the increase in ocean acidification and its negative effects on the creatures living in the sea.

The pH of the sea waters taken from different regions was determined with phenolphthalein, blue litmus paper, red litmus paper and universal pH indicators. The last measurement was made with a PH meter.

During the «Marine Plasticology Sessions» held at Arkas Science and Art Center, İzmir-Turkey, the students examined the samples collected from the beach near to the Center in the Biology class. Then, they also studied rocks containing different minerals in the Geography class. They examined lots of them and made an experiment to discover minerals that contain calcium carbonate.

Our Erasmus corner in our Erasmus Meeting Room.

An activity on pollution in seas and oceans was held by the Guidance Service at Arkas Science and Art Center, İzmir-Turkey.The purpose of the activity was to raise awareness on the pollution in seas and oceans. The Special Talent Development and Support Education students wrote on the Fishbone Diagram the reasons of the pollution in the seas of our country and the world. Then, we they discussed their proposals to solve the problem.

A game was created by one of the students of Arkas Science and Art Center, İzmir-Turkey. The aim of the game is to collect plastic and tin boxes in the sea. You earn points by collecting them with a fishing rod. If you catch fish by mistake, you lose points. Also, the trap that appears at regular intervals brings bonus points by taking the collected plastic and boxes into it.

Here is the game.

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/595352386/

An English animation was created by one of the students of Arkas Science and Art Center, İzmir-Turkey about the wastes in the seas.

Click the link below:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/641578700

An advertising spot was created by one of the students of Arkas Science and Art Center, İzmir-Turkey to appeal to the non-pollution of beaches and to raise awareness of the decrease in the use of plastic (in Turkish and subtitled in English).

World Water Day posters made by our students