RESULT 1: The Green Platform

This is a platform at European level where educators can share good practices, exchange of ideas and exemplary activities, addressing environmental problems (water, climate change, pollution…).

Everyone in the platform has the right to use the materials and resources for free, thus civic engagement will be aimed to be at high levels.

To visite the site clicxk here!

In day 13 we attended the welcome ceremony in wich the school representatives, get to know each other. Also we presented and watched the partner’s presentations (Turkey, Italy, Portugal and Spain, Austria and Germany). The presentations had informations about school and country (Who are we? Where are we from?).

Also we presented about water resourses in each participant country, discussing aspects about water (how is it the case in each country, clean water and sanitation, life below water)

We also watched some videos and work on them in a workshop to develop critical thinking and environmental awareness and creativity.

Students of 1st Baccalaurate IES SANTA LUCÍA prepared some experiments to be done with hosted students.

They had the opportunity to present some scientificexperiments in which water was the main element. All these experiments aimed to explore and demonstrate fundamental scientific principles related to water, including its behavior in different physical and chemical contexts. Through these experiments, students were able to investigate topics such as buoyancy, pressure, conductivity, solubility, and surface tension, enhancing their understanding of the versatile role water plays in scientific phenomena.

1. Floating Drawing
2. Pressure Bomb – Boyle’s Law
3. Chasing Pepper
4. Capillarity
5. Soap Bubbles
6. How to make a pine cone open
7. Study of the internal structure of different substances based on their conductivity
8. Liquid mixtures
9. Liquid (Water) mixtures with solids to determine their solubility 

After lunch we visited the Salinas de Tenefé.

We also had opportunity to visit the salinas.

Why we visited the salt flats?

– The salt flats is one of the flagships in terms of historical heritage of the island.

-They are more than 250 years old and one of the oldest and most traditional trades in the Canary Islands is preserved, such as the Salinero.

-It has great value from an architectural point of view, being the oldest salt mill in Gran Canaria today.

-It is a place rich in hornitology as it is a point of passage for migratory birds, especially waders.

-It also has endemic flora of the place.

-There are also other heritage resources within the protected area of Las Salinas, such as vestiges of the Second World War or pre-Hispanic aboriginal necropolis.

We also learned that they produce some types of salt (fleur de sel, salt flakers, medium frain salt, coarse salt).

In day 14we visited the ethnographic museum of Guayadeque, a part of Canarian history.

In day 15 we visited the HEREDAD DE AGUA OF SARDINA

We listened about water canals and water in Gran Canary. We learned how water is distributed and visited the exterior to see the engeneering behind the distribution.

Since time immemorial there has existed in the Gran Canaria of the thousands of hydraulic works an inheritance whose great history began on August 4, 1617 when the irrigators of Sardina and Aldea Blanca, separated by the bed of the Barranco de Tirajana, constituted a single Estate. They also say that life is the fact, within the world as history, hence the time [400 years] of this old and primitive Heredad overcomes the political spaces of Tirajana and the Cabildo de Gran Canaria.

There are 400 years of hydraulic works that symbolize the duration, the present and the future of the Estate. Hydraulic works that have notorious historical values as a whole: assets of cultural interest in Gran Canaria without a Corporation, without archaeologists, without business.

In day 16 we went to Las Palmas. There we had a guided visit to old town, Vegueta and Triana. After we visit “Poema del Mar” and discovered the enchanted see life of Canary.

In day 17 we visited the Museo de la Zafra- a tomato plantation and water resources.  This Museum is based on the building of the old tomato packing warehouse of Los Betancores. 600 m² were used for the different exhibition rooms, dedicated to the historical crops of the municipality: sugar cane, cotton, tobacco, and especially tomatoes.

Outside it has hydraulic elements such as a well, pond, corner and distribution tower, as well as cultivation areas. It has the reproduction of a small shop.

The La Zafra museum complex has more than 4,000 m² structured in twelve rooms and has two buildings.