ABOUT THE PROJECT

Gymnázium Vysoké Mýto has received a grant under Erasmus + KA2 which will last for 36 months, namely since September 2016 till August 201.

Project name: "Plugging into nature with new technologies" - PIN

The project aims at promoting the use of technologies to increase the interest of pupils in nature while giving them the opportunity to acquire new knowledge and develop new skills.

We want to promote responsible environmental awareness, increase the understanding of the natural sciences and lead to more positive attitudes towards them, to create tools for linking new technologies to nature and its study and to collect a large amount of data on the occurrence of plants and animals in different locations.

Our partnership is based on the cooperation of five countries involved: Romania, Spain, England, Italy and Czechia.

Within the three project years, we plan a working meeting of pupils and teaching staff in each partner country, during which the individual thematic tasks specified in the project application will be implemented.

Quotation from the project application:

We strongly believe that connecting children to nature and the outdoors through technology will provide much more skilled students in different ways:

- Using technologies will get kids outside for observation, learning about local habitat

- This is an authentic way to engage in STEM learning

- The participation in citizen science will be motivational because the data represent a real contribution and it will build stewardship and personal responsibility

- Jumping off point for investigations and projects that mirror professional science

Participatory Science offers each of us a path to find special ways in which we can each help protect our part of the world. It's an elegant, efficient and engaging solution to the huge environmental problems we face in the 21st century.