1. Project “Hello, Spring!” - 10 years of development http://tere.kevad.edu.ee Viktor Muuli Terje Tuisk Tõnis Eelma

2. Viktor Muuli, Terje Tuisk & Tõnis Eelma e-Learning in Science and Environmental Education, October 1-4 2003 Tartu, Estonia Content  Basic idea & main goals  Project activities  History & technical developments  Success characteristics

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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 with different interests and abilities) –Possibility to follow activities of other groups –It is interesting and partly competitive –It is cross-disciplinary

9. 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

10. 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 http://tere.kevad.edu.ee –Viktor Muuli: viktor.muuli@ut.eeviktor.muuli@ut.ee –Terje Tuisk: terje@archimedes.eeterje@archimedes.ee –Tõnis Eelma: toni@tdl.eetoni@tdl.ee