Protection of Biodiversity
Comenius Project 2012-2014

Report of the second project meeting in Cagliari (13.-17.05.2013)

 

In Cagliari there were working together 14 students from Germany, 7 Turkish students, 8 Spanish students and 3 Polish students. There was also 4 German teachers, 2 Polish teachers, 3 Spanish teachers and 2 Turkish teachers.

7 German students were staying in a youth hostal and the rest was living with Italian families. The teachers were living in different hotels.

On the first day of the project meeting the different national groups made their presentations aabout the different ecosystems which they had investigated. So the German groups presented the mud-flats, the Spanish group la Doñana, the Turkish group the Mediterranean sea and the Polish group the Central Europe forest ecosystem.

 

The next day the pupils made the first excursion to the Marine Park Capo Carbonara, where the students first made a trip by boat to have a look to the cost from the seaside.

After that they were divided into groups of 10 students and they got questionnaires, which should be filled in by the students with the information they got during the guided tour through the Marine Park. The groups were guided by biologists who explained a lot about the special biotic and abiotic conditions of this area and the specific adaptations of the species of this ecosystem acording e.g. to the very dry conditions or the high salt concentration.

The students were asked to fill in the form well because they would need the information for the last day, when they would work together in multmational groups to analize and evaluate the excursion results.

 

The next day the students made an excursion to the Natural Park Molentargius to work with the biologists of the park with the aim to know and observe  flora and fauna of the park. It is a special ecosystem made of salinas, where the conditions are different other ecoystems of this area. The pupils received again questionnaires and formed groups. In the groups of 20 persons they walked through the park and they got a lot of information by a biologist. So the pupils e.g. got to know information about the adaptation of flamingos which live in this exosystem.

Also the students had the possibility to make an observation of these flamingos and many other bird species. The students again were asked to fill in the form correctly for including this information in the multinational group work on the last day.

 

The next day the students made an excursion to the Naturalistic and Archaeological Area of Nora. In Nora the students got first an guided tour through the Archaeological Area of Nora.

After that they visited the Envromental Education Center Laguna di Nora with an included visit of the Aquarium, the Cetacean Gallery and the Recovery Center of the Cetaceans and the Sea Turtles. The students got a lot of information about the different endangered species which are living in the Mediterranean sea and about the different types of threat the animals have to live with, e.g. the mass of  platic waste which the animals could eat and die because of it. Apart from that, the students had the oportunity to have a look and also touch a lot of marine species like e.g. crayfish, sea urchin, sea cucumber and starfish. Also they had a look of the skeleton of whales and living fish species which normally live on the sea ground.

 

On the last day of the project meeting the students were working in multinational groups. Two groups were evaluating and analizing the results of the excursion to the coastal ecosystem and preparing a presentation for the others (one in Spanish and one in English) and two groups were doing the same with the results of the excursion to the salina ecosystem. They presented their power-point-presentations to the other pupils and discussed about the different results.

The presentation were uploaded to the internet plattform etwinning for giving the students who didn´t come to Cagliari the opportunity to see the results of this meeting.