Project “Hello, Spring!” - 10 years of development Viktor Muuli Terje Tuisk Tõnis Eelma.

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Project “Hello, Spring!” - 10 years of development Viktor Muuli Terje Tuisk Tõnis Eelma

Viktor Muuli, Terje Tuisk & Tõnis Eelma e-Learning in Science and Environmental Education, October Tartu, Estonia 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 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 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 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 Tartu, Estonia History & technical developments  Started 1994: 11 Estonian schools –Nature observation & only  1997 – very simple web-page  Break  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 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 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

Viktor Muuli, Terje Tuisk & Tõnis Eelma e-Learning in Science and Environmental Education, October 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 Tartu, Estonia Contact  –Viktor Muuli: –Terje Tuisk: –Tõnis Eelma: