GREMI EDUCATIONAL PATHWAY
In the modern society, students tend to be more and more detached from nature, and eco awareness is very low and through the project we wanted to change the current state. Besides creating the hanging wall garden and educational paths around the school, students have also taken part in recycling activities and land art, that is making installations in the school garden out of completely recycled material.
These paths provide students with information about herbs and plants and would also raise eco awareness among students and teachers. Our educational path has been made within the existing school park (designed in 2017.). The whole garden was made of the recycled material.
The project is sustainable on many levels: when dried, plants are used for making different decorations, school souvenirs in order to promote entrepreneurship students' skills. The project offers new skills and competences regarding the eco pedagogy, ICT and critical thinking.
The park has
- a set of 20 domestic Croatian tree plants
- Center "aromatic spiral"
- Aromatic Plants (lavender, immortelle...) which are used to make soap, lavender oil, lavender bags...
- Diffrent bush plants ( hawthorn, dogwood, currant ...)
- Different fruit plants (apple, plum, pear...)
- Didactical sensor path; diffrent kinds of materials used to encourage pupils to discover differen phisical and sensor properties of land/sand/mulch/grass.
- Land art sequences te encourage usage of recycled materials
- Bug hotel
- QR code plates for plants that lead to websites on diffrent plants created by pupils
- Measuring station (rain, temperature, humidity...)
- Windmill (hand work)
- Seedling beds with plants (lettuce, onions...) made from recycled materials (wood, plastic bottles)
- Open classroom (20 pupils roofed open learning earea)
