Presentation

Becoming citizens of the world and more precisely European citizens who are responsible for their environment, is about teaching pupils to look at the living world which surrounds us, it is about understanding that science is of vital importance in the construction of a sustainable world for the future.

Everywhere in Europe, teachers are asking themselves the same questions:

• How do we create a European scientific culture shared by everyone?
• How do we make pupils proactive in the development of science and technology?
• How do we control our technology to make it sustainable?
• How can school make the pupils be aware of the need for sustainable development in order that they may become responsible eco-citizens?

Taking these scientific problems from the point of view of European citizenship as a starting point, we are going to explore innovative pedagogical avenues by means of this project in order to find answers to all these questions.

This project aims to be cutting-edge in its pedagogical conception since the Web 2.0 will be at the heart of communication and co-operation (blog, video-conferencing, mpg4 film, audio mp3 recording).  Extensive use will be made of the multimedia products which form part of pupils’ daily lives (mobile phones, SMS, chat, video, mp3 player, web…).

This project aims to be responsible in the construction of values which Europe advocates in terms of environmental education for sustainable development, in order that each child may understand the way in which man’s responsibility in the face of nature works and inter-relates.

This project aims to unify language-learning through the development of a shared scientific vocabulary.

In conclusion, one of the fundamental objectives of this project is to be able to put in place a real education which develops in the pupils a gradual acquisition of European environmental culture which in its turn seeks to promote sustainable development.

In order to achieve these objectives, our pedagogical approach is both cross-cutting and interdisciplinary.  It concerns not only the approaches which will be put into place but also the subject areas of physical and human sciences and oral and written languages.  By learning to maximise their use of digital support (Ipod, notebook, palm, mp3, DVD player, divX, web 2.0, chat, SMS…) pupils will be better equipped to define the expectations of tomorrow’s society and to be able to respond to a global vision of sustainable development.