BAW
ΣΥΜΜΕΤΟΧΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΗΜΕΡΙΔΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΟΝ ΕΓΚΕΦΑΛΟ ΣΤΟΝ ΠΥΡΓΟ
Η Παιδαγωγική Ομάδα του Γυμνασίου Καράτουλα
Με επιτυχία η εκδήλωση του Σαββάτου στο Διοικητήριο
Οι μαθητές της Ηλείας κοντά στα μυστικά του …Εγκεφάλου
Η ΗΜΕΡΙΔΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΟΝ ΕΓΚΕΦΑΛΟ ΣΤΟΝ ΠΥΡΓΟ
Με την συμμετοχή 5 Σχολείων της Ηλείας, ανάμεσά τους και το Γυμνάσιο Καράτουλα, και του Τμήματος Βιολογίας του Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών πραγματοποιήθηκε με επιτυχία η εκδήλωση-ημερίδα για τα μυστικά του ανθρωπίνου Εγκεφάλου, το πρωί του Σαββάτου 2 Απρίλιου στον Συνεδριακό χώρο της Περιφερειακής Νεότητας Ηλείας στον Πύργο.
Την Ημερίδα προλόγισε η Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια Βιολογίας του Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών κ. Μαριγούλα Μαργαρίτη, που μίλησε για την επέκταση του προγράμματος «Τα σχολεία πηγαίνουν …Πανεπιστήμιο», ένα επιστημονικό πρόγραμμα, που τα τελευταία χρόνια λειτούργησε ως παρακίνηση και για μαθητές από την Ηλεία να συμμετάσχουν και να γνωρίσουν τις εξελίξεις της πειραματικής-ερευνητικής προσπάθειας για τον Εγκέφαλο και τις λειτουργίες του.
Η Ημερίδα πραγματοποιήθηκε στο πλαίσιο της «Εβδομάδας Ενημερώσεως για τον Εγκέφαλο» της διεθνούς εκστρατείας πληροφόρησης που υλοποιείται για την έρευνα του νευρικού συστήματος σε Σχολεία και στην Ελλάδα. Διοργανωτής της ήταν η Δευτεροβάθμια Εκπαίδευση Νομού Ηλείας με την συνεργασία του Τμήματος Βιολογίας του Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών
Η ΠΡΟΣΕΓΓΙΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΜΝΗΜΗΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΟΥΣ ΜΑΘΗΤΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΓΥΜΝΑΣΙΟΥ ΚΑΡΑΤΟΥΛΑ
Το Σχολείο προλόγισε η Διευθύντρια κ. Ανδρομάχη Λέλλα, και στη συνέχεια παρουσιάστηκε το πρόγραμμα «Η Μνήμη συνοδός στο παρόν και το μέλλον».
Οι μαθητές και οι μαθήτριες από το Γυμνάσιο Καράτουλα μέσα από κείμενα τους και παιχνίδια εξήγησαν τον τρόπο που ερμηνεύουν την παρουσία της μνήμης και των στοιχείων που την βοηθούν να συνοδεύει τις ανθρώπινες σκέψεις και πράξεις σε όλην μας την ζωή.
Μάλιστα έγινε χρήση και των νέων τεχνολογιών, με την μορφή ….. τηλεπαιχνιδιού, κάτι που ενθουσίασε το κοινό που παρακολουθούσε.
BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK: GETTING READY
“Σκαλίζοντας τη μνήμη: A visit by a dietician”
For a holistist approach to the topic to this year’s project for the Brain Awareness Week we invited to our school the dietician Maria Christakopoulou, who gave a talk on the nutrients which enhance memory ability, a brain pattern related to learning and acquisition.
She paid attention to the importance of a healthy diet based on quality and variety of food, which includes 5 homemade,well-cooked meals that shouldn’t be skipped. She also mentioned that a healthy diet should be adopted in our lifestyle and to achieve this we ought to inform students to become educated consumers.
Furthermore, she made a reference to the harmful effects of sugar to our organism by showing the following video.
Finally, she concluded by stating the specific nutrients which preserve memory.Later on students reflected on what they had learned, collected all the necessary material and created a leaflet with canva to be distributed to their classmates.
“Σκαλίζοντας τη μνήμη: Artistic Workshop”
Today we were honoured to have Katerina Andreou, arstist, at our school who led the artistic workshop of our project about memory. Students had the chance to learn about illusions and how the brain conceives beauty and how memory works. The outcome of this workshop is an animation video with the students of 3rd Grade starring in… We are looking forward to watching it soon!!!
“Σκαλίζοντας τη μνήμη: A visit by a scientist”
Thanos Svoukas is a Nuclear Medicine Specialist who visited our school to give a lecture on memory. You can take a look at his presentation entitled “μνήμη χρυσόψαρου” to find out more about the topic.
Κοντά στις επιστημονικές εξελίξεις της Βιολογίας
Στο πλαίσιο των εκπαιδευτικών δραστηριοτήτων του Σχολείου οι μαθητές και οι μαθήτριες του Γυμνασίου Καράτουλα επισκέφτηκαν το Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών. Όπως και πέρυσι έτσι και φέτος υπάρχει επιστημονική συνεργασία μεταξύ του Γυμνασίου και του Τμήματος Βιολογίας Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών στο θέμα της προβολής των δυνατοτήτων του Εγκεφάλου και την εν γένει κατανόηση του από τους μαθητές.
Ανάμεσα στους χώρους που επεσκέφθησαν οι μαθητές και οι μαθήτριες, συνοδευόμενοι από τους Εκπαιδευτικούς τους, ήταν τα Εργαστήρια Μοριακής Βιολογίας, οι χώροι πειραμάτων και το Μουσείο Φυσικής Ιστορίας. Εκεί οι διδάσκοντες και οι συνεργάτες του Πανεπιστημίου εξήγησαν στους μαθητές μεθόδους πειραμάτων, αλλά και τον τρόπο ανάλυσης του ανθρώπινου αίματος. Στο Μουσείο μάλιστα είδαν τα εκθέματα που έχουν συγκεντρώσει οι ερευνητικές ομάδες του Πανεπιστημίου, για να εφαρμόσουν τα επιστημονικά δεδομένα.
Οι μαθητές διατύπωσαν τις δικές τους ερωτήσεις και μπόρεσαν να βρουν απαντήσεις σε απορίες τους. Τους μαθητές και τους εκπαιδευτικούς του Γυμνασίου υποδέχθηκαν και μίλησαν μαζί τους ο κ. Βασίλειος Χονδρόπουλος, Καθηγητής Βιολογίας, η κ. Μαριγούλα Μαργαρίτη, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, ο κ. Σωτήριος Τσάκας, μέλος του Εργαστηριακού Διδακτικού Προσωπικού και η Μεταπτυχιακή Φοιτήτρια κ. Κορίνα Ατσοπάρδη, οι οποίοι οδήγησαν τους μαθητές και τις μαθήτριες σε γνωστές και άγνωστες πτυχές των εξελίξεων της Επιστήμης της Βιολογίας, ενώ απάντησαν στις απορίες τους.
Μετά το Πανεπιστήμιο, το Γυμνάσιο Καράτουλα επισκέφθηκε το Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Πατρών, ένα σύγχρονο και λειτουργικό κτίριο που φιλοξενεί αρχαιότητες από τα περισσότερα μέρη της Αχαΐας. Εκεί είχαν την δυνατότητα να θαυμάσουν τα περίφημα Ψηφιδωτά της Συλλογής του Μουσείου και να ξεναγηθούν σε αντικείμενα από την Μυκηναϊκή μέχρι την Ρωμαϊκή εποχή, βλέποντας από κοντά όσα έχουν διδαχθεί στις σχολικές αίθουσες στο μάθημα της Ιστορίας. Η όλη επίσκεψη στην Πάτρα ολοκληρώθηκε με μία περιδιάβαση στους δρόμους του Ιστορικού κέντρου της πόλης.
“Σκαλίζοντας τη μνήμη: useful videos”
- Let’s test how memory works on animals. Watch the video students shot while visiting the Laboratory of Human & Animal Physiology:
- Wath a video about how memory is formed and how it gets lost
- An animation video about Alzheimer : through the eyes of a patient…
“Now and Then…What’s next?…”
TBLT Training held in Amaliada 18-19 December 2015
Report on PETALL Tasks
By Julie Harbali
The activity, I chose among the proposed tasks is entitled “Now and Then-A Photostory” by Germany.
It captured my attention because I thought I could incorporate it to this year’s curriculum. We are involved in a project which has to do with memory, so I found it suitable for my class and the students’ level and interests, since it involves smartphones and selfies.
Class profile: 14 students of 3rd Grade Junior Secondary school of Karatoula
CEFR Level: B1
Skills: writing/reading/describing people/expressing past habits
Product:
Descriptions of oneself and comparison of an old picture to a selfie tagged on a padlet dashboard serving as an icebreaker and/or introducing activity in an e-twinning project.
Duration: still in process
Description of the task:
Students have to compare a selfie with a picture taken of them about 8 years ago. Indeed, they have to imitate the posture, expression etc. of the old picture and then to take a selfie of this with a smartphone or a digital camera.
The teacher edits the two photos in one using the layout by instagram programme, and uploads them to a padlet board, which is embedded to a blog.
Students access the padlet using a password and write in a new frame anonymously. They compare in detail the two pictures and describe the differences. For instance, they compare the life they used to live when the old picture was taken to the life they live now and consider the following aspects: Houses,town,clothes,taste,likes and dislikes,etc.
Expansion of activity:
Let’s play a game…Students will have to guess who is described in the text and match it with the right picture.
…What’s next… The activity will be enriched with students’ vision of the future (how they wish/predict to be in the future) and capture a “future selfie” or create an avatar.
Highlights:
Students embraced it with enthusiasm and the very next lesson almost half of them brought old pictures of themselves. They enjoyed the process of shooting and sending pictures. That day some students were allowed to bring their phones at school for the activity and then they saved them turned off in the office of the headmistress. They realized how much they have grown up and they recalled old memories, which was the purpose!
Problems encountered-things to improve:
Two students haven’t brought a photo, they are not so competent in English and kind introverted characters and a bit shy. A student from Albania, who came recently in Greece, has no photos of her childhood so it was an awkward moment. Time is always limited!!! Some students don’t like the photos…It was commented in the middle-project evaluation sheet that they didn’t like the fact that some students hadn’t brought photos. The lesson plan suggested was too much detailed so I adjusted it to meet my students’s needs and our educational purposes.
Padlet’s frames are unfortunately limited when embedded in a blog.
“Sweet Dreams”
The poster of the event.
Some instances from the event.
The event for Brain Awareness Week (BAW) in which our school participated was held event at the Apollo Theatre in Pyrgos on Saturday 14 March 2015. It included speeches, posters, power point and prezi presentations, video projection and short plays on the human brain presented by students. The choice of subjects was done by the teachers in collaboration with the Assistant Professor Margariti Marigoula of the Biology Department of the University of Patras, member of the Greek company for the Neurosciences.
Students had the opportunity to visit the Laboratory of Human and Animal Physiology in the Faculty of Biology and to watch : presentations in relation to the structure and functioning of the brain, microscopic preparations of the nervous system and behavioral experiments by Ms. M. Margaritis. The postgraduate student Alexander Kokkosis, the postgraduate student Basiliki Panagiotakopoulou and the undergraduate student Anthi Krontira, and the graduates of Biology Anni Kaplanian and Georgia Tsapara.
« Sweet Dreams »
Presentation Type: interactive presentation between public and students using prezi, a Web2.0 presentation software.
Subject: The function of the brain during sleep. Dreams.
Keywords: Sleep, dreams, REM & NREM stages, circadian rhythm, Web 2.0 tools, research, art, interdisciplinarity.
Description:
What does the brain do when we sleep? How are Dreams created? What is the importance of dreams in our lives? Dreams and prejudices. Dreams in the Bible and Ancient Greek Literature. Mythology and dreams. How has the dream become a target?
These were the questions that tried to cover the students through this action. The approach of the Sleep-Dreams theme has involved interdisciplinary teaching subjects like Biology, Religion, Ancient Greek Literature, ICT and English. Furthermore, emphasis was given to the cultivation of cognitive and social skills and the expression of students’ creativity through painting, crafts and digital projects created using Web2.0 applications.
The preparation of the action included a didactic visit to the laboratory of Human and Animal Physiology, University of Patras, Department of Biology on 15.01.2015 in which the students were familiarised with scientific terms, which were presented with easy and understandable for their level way by Mrs. M. Margariti.
There was a significant effort to integrate relevant to the matter scientific terms in the teaching of the course of English as much as possible done in a simpler way so that students understand the biological process of sleeping and the creation of dreams. To achieve this, the teaching was realised in two parallel lines: a. ‘Working’ on a scientific Greek text proposed by Ms. Margariti M.,from which students derived data and information and b. Completing these data in the worksheets in english.
The innovation of the action lies in the fact that the interpretative analysis of the scientific text was projected via a prezi presentation (a platform of organization, development and distribution of “cinematographic presentation”) in English focusing on keywords during the interpretative approach to the text. This initial presentation was enriched furthermore by the material collected by the students and then presented at the event.
This action achieved the fruitful combination of Art, Science and Technology and it was very positive that it was developed under a collaborative team-spirit enhancing the creative autonomy of students.
In particular, students were involved in the following:
- Describing and Drawing a dream: Create comics using the Pixton, an online comic book creation tool (Photo 3).
- Creating a bilingual dreambook (dream interpreter) in English-Greek.
- Conducting a research on the habits of sleep, dreams and beliefs about them, distributing questionnaires made with googleforms and conclusions were drawn with the statistical package SPSS17.
- Painted posters, canvas painting, creating artworks, construction of a Dreamcatcher and works from clay depicting the brain (Photo 2).
- A vision for a better world, after analyzing the speech of Martin Luther King titled «I HAVE A DREAM»
- Collage with students’ dreams-targets.
Coordinator: Charmpali Ioulia, English Teacher
Participating Teacher : Kourkoutas Georgios , Greek Literature Teacher
School Principal: Lella Andomache, French Teacher
List of participants in alphabetical order:
1. Aggelakopoulou Kiriaki
2. Anastopoulou Christina
3. Dimitropoulou Katerina
4. Dimopoulos Stamatis
5. Kleideri Sofia
6. Stavropoulos Konstantinos
7. Tsavlis Basileios
Click here for our prezi presentation.
Paintings inspired by “dreams”.
The comics students produced during the project.
The school’s badge.
Working in groups.
Editing the questionnaire using google forms.
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