The Life Muscles Team is well aware that school plays a fundamental role in the formation of conscience and in creating awareness in children and teenagers. For this reason, the project includes activities to involve teachers, with whom to build and share educational paths and support activities for learning about environmental issues, in this case specific to the marine environment.
A specific educational program will be created aimed at involving male and female students in activities aimed at protecting the sea from pollution, trying to strengthen the link with their territory. To do this we propose the digital Edukit, aimed at S classes1st and 2nd grade secondary schools Of Liguria And Puglia (target regions of the project). Un manual for teachers with examples of educational activities, which includes educational materials to offer new tools in the prevention of plastic pollution in the sea.
Furthermore, to encourage the participation of schools, a merit contest for which the classes that will participate will be invited to prepare a work in different forms (text, photos, film, etc.) following for each foreseen edition a related topic of marine pollution.
. The best three works of each edition will be rewarded with dedicated gadgets.
EDUKIT
A useful tool for addressing highly topical and important topics, such as biodiversity, marine plastic pollution, circular economy, and to stimulate citizen science actions.
COMPETITION FOR CLASSES
To make the boys/girls protagonists of communication and awareness actions, a competition is promoted aimed at first and second grade secondary schools in Liguria and Puglia.
The competition involves the production of different works, based on the school order, to raise citizens' awareness against the abandonment of waste for protection of the sea, especially fromplastic pollution.
Each class will be able to send up to 5 works, created by students individually or in small groups.
For information and how to participate, read the REGULATION
JOINING THE PROJECT AND PARTICIPATION IN THE COMPETITION ARE FREE
In the end, schools and classes interested in collaborating will also be able to participate in field activities through two important campaigns promoted by the project in the pilot areas of Liguria and Puglia:
- The tracking campaign Beach litter organized every year from the month of April. It is an activity of citizen science which consists in the collection of data on the waste present on the beach. Monitoring allows you to acquire information on the quantities, trends and sources of that share of marine litter immediately visible to all of us, in this case with a focus on mussel farming socks. The protocol used is a simplification of that provided by the Guidelines of the MSFD technical group (Guidance on monitoring of Marine Litter in European seas, MSFD technical subgroup on ML).
- Countryside Clean Up the Sea, on the occasion of World Oceans Day promoted by the United Nations (June 8) with the aim of actively involving the local population, raising awareness of the problem of plastic pollution and increasing social consensus towards environmental policies.
