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The Environmental Education Program "Murcia, ecology of a city" starts a new course preparing a comprehensive and innovative range of activities aimed at schools and associations in the municipality of Murcia.
A new feature last week began the Ecoaula, a new part of the program which includes lectures, workshops and visits, and aims to bring students the environmental reality of the city of Murcia through lectures, exhibitions and workshops conducted in the classroom.
They can engage students of all ages, from kindergarten to high school, including adults of other entities or associations.
With full activities calendar, Ecoaula start the course with renewed and updated activities on issues such as noise, energy, waste or water, serving more than 25 schools materials.
Green Schools 2014-2015 this course starts with the highly charged batteries.
More than 20 centers in the municipality participate actively in this part of the Environmental Education Program.
Of these, four are brand new;
Torresalinas, San Andrés, Fleet and Pablo Gil Castillo.
Driven by a mediomabiental consciousness arise with students and teachers, implement measures to make more sustainable from an environmental point of view, their school.
During the first quarter will conduct awareness-raising activities on the chosen topic, so that in the second quarter, after making an environmental assessment, through an on-line questionnaire, can set goals and develop an action plan with concrete actions to develop in the third quarter and subsequent courses.
The centers that have worked years in Green Schools will launch two new campaigns.
On one side are those who are committed to reduce noise or noise pollution, for which conduct various activities to do, like make a map using noise level meters downtown.
On the other, "Aluminum 0", a campaign that aims to reduce this waste and also to assess and verify that environmental improvement is obtained thereby.
Moreover, schools Ecological Network of the Municipality of Murcia School (RHEMU) Orchards are already involved with the planting of fall and winter.
Beans, peas, broccoli, cauliflower, chard, lettuce, celery, radishes, carrots, and etc., will grow in the yards of schools and school during its development will learn a lot of knowledge that gives an orchard, a space that not only the vegetables are careful, but a classroom again (in this case outdoor) where you learn to differentiate seasonal plants, how much of each of the crops are eaten, a climbing plant and, a long etc.
Nine school's gardens.
School gardens have entered strongly in schools as a unique opportunity for students to apply the knowledge acquired during the whole process of gardening in the classroom through language, language, mathematics, physical education, natural sciences , etc.
A total of nine schools this course in addition to the 21 that already had, so we got to the thirties.
More and more schools that want participaren the initiative of the Department of Environment
Nature's Classroom Majal Blanco opens each morning, set in the forest estate of the same name, is included in the boundaries of the Regional Park El Valle and Carrascoy and is one of the most representative ecosystems of our region, the Mediterranean forest, harboring many species of wildlife and a variety of rocks and minerals worth knowing.
Each year, more than 1,200 people from more than 20 schools in the municipality visit our facilities and participate in various activities.
The school made a trip back in time to see how the cast was mined in the area and how was dehydrated and then ground it in the oven and plaster mill, near the quarry or converted for a day and discover true explorers some of the plants and animals that lurk there and observe how plants resist our climate through various adaptations.
Another attraction of the Nature Centre is the new Visitor Center Majal Blanco, located in the same facility.
It offers exhibitions of maps, photos and other samples of organic, biological, landscape and history that encompasses the Majal Blanco.
Since its launch thousands of people have enjoyed these and other corners keeping Majal Blanco and waiting to be discovered through respect and care for its visitors.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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