The European Chain Reaction 2012: January 2012

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

This is the voting table...

Hi all, This voting table shows how all countries have voted...

Monday, January 30, 2012

This is the ECR-2012-newsflash

Hi to all,

I hope you may enjoy the ECR-2012-newsflash!

Congratulations to all children and teachers who worked in this project!

Kind regards,

Dave

Thursday, January 26, 2012

The votes have been counted!!!

Hi to all chaintists,

Just to inform you all, every country has sent in their votes and all of the votes have been counted!

So, tomorrow my students and I can record the ECR-2012-newsflash in which we will announce the winner of this years’ competition!

This newsflash will be published on the blog at Monday January 30^th at 11:00 Brussels time, so everyone of you gets to know their position in the final ranking then. We will show you the European Chain Reaction 2012 then too, and it will be a real nice one, since you all were extremely creative this year! I hope all of you will be pleased with the outcome!

On Tuesday I will upload an overview in a votes-table, so all of you can see how many points you received from which countries. (I won’t publish this on Monday to hold the excitement. Now all of you are obliged to watch the newsflash if you want to know your place in the rankingJ!)

Best wishes,

Dave

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Greek pupil's game reaction

Students with special needs and educational difficulties collaborate with their classmates in a game reaction organized by the teacher Abrazi Zoe

Friday, January 13, 2012

The Portuguese Chain Reaction

Hello to everyone!!! Here it is our Chain Reaction. We had a lot of fun doing it. We hope you enjoy it!

Good luck for everyone...
Best regards from Colégio Monte Flor - Portugal

Iceland's chain 2012

Hello partners
Here is our chain reaction year 2012. The 5th grade worked at it this time. They were very interested in doing it. Their teamwork was good and they made a nice chain just by them selves. They had great fun doing it and are eager to watch the other chains and give points.
Take a look :-)

CHAIN REACTION FROM THE CZECH REPUBLIC

This is the first chain reaction attempt created by our pupils. Enjoy!

Thursday, January 12, 2012

The European Chain Reaction 2012 from Bulgaria

Dear friends, "Cvetni Pesachinki” Kindergarten from Bulgaria is delighted to show you its first participation into The European Chain Reaction 2012.

Nine Bulgarian children aged 4-6 years have worked together as a team and fully unaided have created their first chain reaction with toys from the school. We hope you will enjoy their achievements and will like them. While the children were working on project European Chain Reaction 2012, they were amassing scientific experience, were really happy and were having great fun.

Have fun watching the video!

We wish all success!

ECR 2012 Bulgaria from Stanka Aleksandrova on Vimeo.

Technical chain from Slovenia

Technical chain from Slovenia. This is out first technical chain attempt.

Greetings from Slovenia,
Tatjana Gulič

THE ITALIAN CHAIN REACTION

Here we are!!! We made chain and video without any help!! Not perfect but we are proud of our machine and happy to take part in this wonderful European project!!
Bye and good luck!!!
The pupils in 5a and 5b

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

European Chain Reaction 2012 from Finland!

ENGLAND's Chain reaction

http://youtu.be/S6ocCHes1p8

Made in Poland :)

Proud and satisfied to present our colourful European Chain Reaction 2012.

Best wishes from Poland.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

ECR12 Germany

Dear ECR team!

With last year's chain reaction we explored the length of our school on the first floor.

This year we decided to check out the other dimensions by starting from the upper garden, quickly entering and crossing the newly built extension and concluding our chain reaction ouside again on the lower premises close by our sheep.
15 pupils worked for 5 days on this chain reaction (during their holidays, that is!).

Unfortunately, we had to cope with a very difficult weather situation this week, so we were not able to shoot our chain reaction in one take due to heavy wind, rain and even some snow. For this reason, there are some obvious cuts in our video. Nonetheless, we hope you will enjoy our presentation.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Here is the Norwegian chain reaction

Lots of work, but we all loved doing it, and also very nice to be part of this great idea. We are looking forward to watch the other countries chain reaction. Seeing pupils ability to create is just an unique experience. Good luck everybody!! Lots of love from Norway.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Scotland's Chain Reaction

Hello everyone!

Yester Primary School from Scotland proudly present their own entry for the 2012 European Chain Reaction Contest!

Twenty five pupils from our primary 5/6 class (9 and 10 year olds) collaborated very well with each other and worked very hard, and entirely on their own, to create this entry, which we do hope you will enjoy!

Let's all remember that to create a chain reaction from nothing takes a lot of work, and we already think that the other chain reactions we have watched are all excellent, so good luck everyone, and well done for all your hard work!

CHAIN REACTION 2012 LITHUANIA

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Project History

The European Chain Reaction 2011

The European Chain reaction is a European Quality Label winning eTwinning project that was first organised in 2011.

The project is a contest and a European collaboration between primary schools from as many as possible European countries.

In the contest primary schools compeet for the honour and a nice trophy: Which country builds and films the most astonishing and creative Rube Goldberg / Robert Storm Petersen chain reaction? The competing children are the only judges in this game!

In the end all videos will be edited to ONE BIG CROSS BORDER EUROPEAN CHAIN REACTION! (European Chain Reaction 2011 video)

In 2011 Germany was the outstanding winner of this fun science competition. They made this absolutely amazing video and they learned a lot about pulleys, chains, levers, ...

In 2012 we will have a second edition of the project. We would like to find some extra schools to participate!

Isn't your country mentioned on this blog and your primary school want to join this amazing science competition? Please contact dave at qworzo dot be or find us at the eTwinningforum!

To all joining us: have a "scientific experience" and let's all hope the best Einsteins may win!

Czech Republic

ZÁKLADNÍ ŠKOLA A MATEŘSKÁ ŠKOLA MŠEC

We are proud to represent the Czech Republic in this competition. We are a small village basic school not far from the capital city Prague. There are 125 pupils in our school (6 – 15 years old) and 40 in the kindergarten (3 – 6). The primary classes are situated in a former castle (with an interesting history) which makes our school a little special (and romantic). All around the village you can find lots of hop gardens. Do you know what hop is for? You can check our school website with a lot of pictures.

Croatia

Hi from Zadar, an ancient, 3 thousand old Mediterrannean beauty on the Adriatic coast. The main part of Zadar is our peninsula that is surrounded by medieval walls. Apart from many churches, museums, galleries...there are two modern tourist attractions: 'Greetings to the sun' and 'Sea organs' (music is produced by the waves). Our Bartula kasica Primary school is situated in the suburbs of Zadar. There are about one thousand students (aged 7 to 4) who attend school in 2 shifts.They teach English as the first foreign language from the first grade, but can choose Italian or German in the grade 4. We are happy to offer our pupils the chance to meet their international pals through many eTwinning projects we take part in as much as by taking part in Comenius Project.
Visit our school website!

Greece

1st Primary school of Giannitsa is located at the settlement Karyoton in the city of Giannitsa- prefecture of Pella- Greece. Founded in 1915 , was completed in 1930. The current building was constructed in 1984. During the 2008-09 school year, enrolled 360 students, 25 teachers 17 sections as well and integration department for kids with special needs. Keeps computer lab room and lending library. The teacher of children with special needs, Abrazi Zoe have been running successful European projects like Comenius Socrates since 1998 and eTwinning since 2008

Iceland

Flataskóli is a compulsory elementary school. The pupils are from 6 to 12 years old (1st to 7th grade) In the school are nearly 300 pupils and about 50 members of staff, teachers and others employees. Flataskóli is located in Garðabær, a town of 10.000 inhabitants, 14 km south of Reykjavík. Flataskóli is the oldest educational establishment in Garðabær and the school is founded on trust and stability. Good behaviour together with a positive attitude and ethos are hallmarks of Flataskóli. The school has a speicial outdoor teaching area in a grove nearby in harmony with a stream and lava. The seashore is within walking distance from school.

Italy

“Antonio Gramsci” Primary School

Ghilarza ( Oristano) Sardinia (Italy)

Our School is located in Ghilarza , a town of 5000 inhabitants in the centre of Sardinia, close to an artificial lake, about 50 Km from the West coast of the island. In its surroundings there are lots of archaeological sites ( Nuragic and Roman architecture and civilisation). Sardinian people speak two languages: Sardo and Italian.

Our school has about 225 children aged 6/11 and 20 teachers.

In school year 2010/2011 we started our European adventure thanks to the presence of a Comenius Assistant and we won the European Label 2011!!.

For us is the first experience in eTwinning and the 5^th classes are looking forward to joining the European Chain ! Want to learn more about us? Visit our website!

Lithuania

ŠIAULIAI „JUVENTA“ SCHOOL
school doors opened in 1971 in its first generation and in 1999/2000 school year, pupils and teachers chose her a new name: „Juventa“ High School. Our school always was famous of it‘s music. Our school is famous not only for his musical achievements. Our students actively participate in various arts, sports contests and competitions. The school is decorated with ever-changing exhibition of works by students. Students participate in various projects: the Comenius, eTwinning, the city and the republic. You can find a primary school drama, road safety, the fine arts section in „Juventa“ school. Visit our website!

Poland

Szkoła Podstawowa w Jaźwinie is a small village primary school in Lower Silesia Region. It is located 50 km from Wroclaw, near to German and the Czech Republic borders . It is a very small school with 13 teachers and about 80 pupils. We have a pre-school group and the youngest children are 4 years old. The oldest are 13 years old and they are pupils of year 6. Our native language is Polish but children learn English as a foreign language. Pupils are ready to build a chain reaction and eager to enter the competition. The tower you can see doesn't belong to school, it's a church tower.You can visit our school website!

Portugal

Colégio Monte Flor

Colegio Monte Flor is a private school that exists in Carnaxide since 1973. Targeted to the future, pedagogical innovation is assumed as the main feature of our teaching. The slogan "One Child one Future" expresses a vision of education where the welfare of students goes hand in hand with academic success and a preparation for life in all areas: social, personal and intellectual. An individualized teaching and involvement in major national and international projects are the basis for our work methodology. On this website you can know us a little better and keep informed about what is happening in our school! Visit our school website here!

Slovenia

Our school lies in Preska, a village not so far away from Slovenia's capital Ljubljana. It consists of two parts: the old and the new one. In the old part we have classrooms for art classes, history and craft, a dining room and a kitchen. We also have a very friendly chef, which will always make you laugh. In the new, bigger part, there are classrooms for Science (Chemistry and Physics), Math, Slovene, English, Music, Biology, Geography and a computer classroom. There are also two gyms and a library with over 14,000 books.

Primary school Preska is visited by students from villages Preska, Golo Brdo, Studenčice, Goričane, Sora and Dol. It also has two branch schools in Topol and Sora. There are about 400 students in our school at the very moment.

Want to know more? Visit our website!

Spain

The CEIP "San Juan" was founded in 1973. It´s a public school with 240 students of preschool and primary education. It is placed in Antequera, a beautiful town 43 kilometres at the north of Málaga. Antequera is in the centre of Andalusia in the south of Spain. Our school is in the suburbs of the town, but we have a nice landscape to enjoy. Some students at school are from other countries. Now we are learning the informatics technologies and we are beginning to know others schools in Europe like in this project. You can visit ourwebsite here.

Impressum

This blog is developed for the eTwinning project The European Chain Reaction 2012.

This blog has been build by Dave Schrauwen, Michael Purves and the pupils and teachers from the different schools mentioned above.

If you have any questions, or if you want to join the next edition of this project, you may contact Dave!

Dave Schrauwen

dave at qworzo dot be

+32 497 321 234

Qworzó

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2330 Merksplas

Belgium

All articles on this blog are individual posts of the partners in the project. Every partner is responsible for his own entry as is clearly stated in the rules of the project!