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Strategic Partnership Project (Key action no 2)
“ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP AND ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS THROUGH FORMAL
AND NON-FORMAL EDUCATION” (ACEAFNE)
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
 The students will leave a tap dripping for various time intervals (one minute, five minutes,
fifteen minutes and a half an hour).
 They will gather the amount of water wasted and they will measure for each interval the
corresponding volume.
 Then they will count the number of taps in the school building and they will try to count
the whole amount of water which is wasted for each time interval.
 Then they will extend the project by generalizing their findings for the city of Ostrava.
They will estimate the number of households based on population and they will take into
consideration the number of taps per household as well so they can estimate the amount of
wasted water in different time intervals.
 At the end they will research the water consumption per country so they can compare and
see in which countries the amount of water wasted at school and at the city can make a
difference.
 They will present their findings to their classmates and at the end they will design posters
promoting reduction of water waste based on their math calculations.
ACTIVITY ASSESSMENT
 Various written tasks(Formative/Summative Assessment)
 Presentation(PowerPoint/short video)
 Posters
STUDENTS‟ IMPACT *
 Awareness of the impact of human actions on nature
 Developing green world preservation skills and habits
 Involvement in design and implementation of environmental projects in schools
CONCLUSIONS AS TO THE STUDENTS‟ BEHAVIOUR, INTEREST, ACTIVITY:
 The students usually enjoy completing this activity because it is related to a real life
problem and they can understand the usage of mathematics in analyzing and addressing
global issues such as water waste.
 The students show strong interest in presenting their findings not only to their classmates
but also to the school community. One of my students had the idea of writing about the
activity at the school newspaper.
 As an extension later I would like to link this activity with the local community.
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