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Project “Hello, Spring!” - 10 years of development http://tere.kevad.edu.ee. Viktor Muuli Terje Tuisk Tõnis Eelma. Content. Basic idea & main goals Project activities History & technical developments Success characteristics. Basic idea & main goals. Back to the Nature
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Project “Hello, Spring!” - 10 years of developmenthttp://tere.kevad.edu.ee Viktor Muuli Terje Tuisk Tõnis Eelma
Content • Basic idea & main goals • Project activities • History & technical developments • Success characteristics Viktor Muuli, Terje Tuisk & Tõnis Eelma e-Learning in Science and Environmental Education,October 1-4 2003 Tartu, Estonia
Basic idea & main goals • Back to the Nature • Phenological observations and development of the Spring • Goals: • To bring children closer to the Nature and help them to study common plant and bird species by observing them at Spring • To offer ICT based project learning opportunities for younger students Viktor Muuli, Terje Tuisk & Tõnis Eelma e-Learning in Science and Environmental Education,October 1-4 2003 Tartu, Estonia
Project activities 1 • Participants: about 1600 students from more than 100 schools (~1/6 from all schools in Estonia) • Phenological observations: • 35 indicators of Spring evolution • Registration of the date of first seeing/hearing • On-line database - all participants can follow the situation in other places Viktor Muuli, Terje Tuisk & Tõnis Eelma e-Learning in Science and Environmental Education,October 1-4 2003 Tartu, Estonia
Project activities 2 • Additional activities: • Quiz • questions about local history and nature • students ask and answer the questions themselves • Spring Poetry • Drawings • Web-pages • Summer camp Viktor Muuli, Terje Tuisk & Tõnis Eelma e-Learning in Science and Environmental Education,October 1-4 2003 Tartu, Estonia
History & technical developments • Started 1994: 11 Estonian schools • Nature observation & e-mail only • 1997 – very simple web-page • Break 1999-2000 • 2001: restart at new technical level: • Web-based online user management, observation data management, dynamic maps, support activities &materials Viktor Muuli, Terje Tuisk & Tõnis Eelma e-Learning in Science and Environmental Education,October 1-4 2003 Tartu, Estonia
Success characteristics 1 • Positive feedback from teachers • Long traditions and large scale & number of participants • Successful participation rate about 90% • Our web-page had 800,000 hits during March-May, 2003 Viktor Muuli, Terje Tuisk & Tõnis Eelma e-Learning in Science and Environmental Education,October 1-4 2003 Tartu, Estonia
Success characteristics 2 • Reasons of the success: • The subject is actuell - Back to the Nature • Participation is very simple (KIS) • All activities in mother language (young students) • Chance to be active in many different ways (niches for students withdifferent interests and abilities) • Possibility to follow activities of other groups • It is interesting and partly competitive • It is cross-disciplinary Viktor Muuli, Terje Tuisk & Tõnis Eelma e-Learning in Science and Environmental Education,October 1-4 2003 Tartu, Estonia
Acknowledgements • Tiger Leap Foundation • KIK (Centre of Environmental Investments) • EENET (Estonian Educational and Research Network) • RMK (State Forest Management Centre) • Estonian Ornithological Society Viktor Muuli, Terje Tuisk & Tõnis Eelma e-Learning in Science and Environmental Education,October 1-4 2003 Tartu, Estonia
Contact • http://tere.kevad.edu.ee • Viktor Muuli:viktor.muuli@ut.ee • Terje Tuisk: terje@archimedes.ee • Tõnis Eelma: toni@tdl.ee Viktor Muuli, Terje Tuisk & Tõnis Eelma e-Learning in Science and Environmental Education,October 1-4 2003 Tartu, Estonia