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Erasmus+ KA2Steps of Citizenship

Me as an Engineer/Architectin the Ideal Town

School Year 2015/2016Classes 3^A - 3^B - 3^C

Istituto Comprensivo CameranoScuola Secondaria di Primo Grado «S.Pellico»

Istituto comprensivo CameranoScuola secondaria di primo grado «S.Pellico»

In connection with last year’s project “My Ideal Town” we have decided to renew the local wood, adding new structures made with recycled materials and make a better area for free time.The project has been developed in three steps: •A reduced scale model (1:100) of a green area for free time: a wood with a playground, pic-nic area and relax zones•Tour of the wood guided by us students during the spring FAI event (Italian Fund for the Environment)•Production of the models of the street furniture with recycled materials, such as cardboard and tires.

A green area for free time scale model


In Camerano there is a wood which we would like to transform in a Free Time Green Area for our Ideal Town.


We have made a model ...To realize the base of the model, we have used styrofoam and shaped it in various sizes, then we have glued them together.


We have made papier mache, then we have covered the plastic with that material; subsequently we have painted it brown with some shades of green colour.


We have covered one side of the hill with trees made of small pieces of green sponge for the foliage and brown toothpicks for the trunk, pasting them together with hot glue.





We have also used toothsticks to create the various fences and some little white stones for the path.



A PIC-NIC AREA


RECYCLING AREA


A GARDEN PLAYGROUND


RELAX ZONE FOR OLDER PEOPLE

RELAX ZONEGAME ROOM


And in the GAME ROOM…

A LOCAL game for GLOBAL fun!!!

•The model was exposed both in the Erasmus Corner and at the local wood during the “Spring F.A.I. Days” on 19th and 20th March.


Italian Environment FundThis fund is intended to protect the cultural

heritage of our country.


F.A.I

We have enriched our Erasmus project with the “F.A.I Giovani” project, becoming mini-guides of the local Mancinforte’s wood which, in our scale model we have improved.


«We young guides of the Ideal Town»


Mancinforte’s garden

Mancinforte’s wood

The Mancinforte’s wood is a high forest mixed of Hardwood sawmills with plants like holm, maple, and manna ash.Nowadays the wood is included in the Conero Natural Park.


THE MANCINFORTE’S WOOD

Our groups were made of about 25 people, we guided them into the wood and our visit was now and then interrupted by some short extemporaneus little scenes played by our friends, based on historical legends.


OUR ITINERARIES


THE PATH IN THE WOOD

• Laurel: (Laurus nobilis) An evergreen perennial plant.

Our friends acted a little scene about the laurel legend (Daphne and Apollo)


SOME OF OUR TREES

• Hippocastanum chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum): the margin of the leaves is doubly serrated, the central vein is well marked. The fruits, chestnuts, are large thorny capsules. . Here, we had another little scene about Hippocastanum.



• Italian maple: (Acer opalus obtusatum): 20 mt high

Very simple wavy leaves.The fruits are samare. Here, we had another little scene about maples.

• Acanthus leaves (Acanthus mollis):A herbaceous native plant from Greece. This plant is very important in the Greek architecture, in the Corinthian capital.


• Holm oak: (Quercus ilex) An evergreen tree very common in our wood. Many of these holms are secular, they are more than150-200 years old.


• Downy oak: (Quercus pubescens) This species of oak is very common in Italy. The foliage is wide and the leaves are decidous, they remain attached to the branches all winter. Here we have performed our last little scene about downy.

We have really enjoyed partecipating to this project, as we met new people from other regions, and we noticed that people really appreciated our performance.We hope to participate again next year!



For the Erasmus project we have also studied energy sustainability and renewable resources so we have created some more products reusing and adapting cartboard paper.

To preserve the earth’s resources so we have to:-avoid the exhausting of natural resources.-reduce the production of litter (by using recycled materials).


Sustainability

Sustainabilty allows to satisfy the needs of the modern generation without compromising the future ones.


What is sustainability?

Our classes were divided into groups and we realized different items with recycled cardboard paper to build exhibitors, some chairs and a desk by using glue, sellotape and box cutters.


This is one of the results of our work, made from recycled cardboard paper . It was made to “display ” information and photographs about the Erasmus + project.


Exhibitor

This is another product from our work, made with recycled boxes as well. It was projected to be used as a computer desk in the ideal town’s GAME ROOM


Table

These chairs - made made of cartboard – are meant to be used in the Ideal Town’s relax zones.


Chairs



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OUR IDEAL TOWN’S FREE TIME GREEN AREA


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