Desert-Adapt offers a unique opportunity for the students and teachers to learn more about important societal issues like, climate change, desertification, sustainable land management and many more, by taking direct involvement into Desert-Adapt actions

The projects aims at close and direct collaboration with the education sector to disseminate the fundamentals of sustainability at all educational levels

 

We welcome students and teacher to work with us.....contact us!

  
   
  
    COLLABORATION PROJECT FOR SCHOOLS 2021

FIGHT AGAINST DESERTIFICATION, IMPORTANCE OF ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND ROLE OF BIODIVERSITY

 

  
  The Desert-Adapt project proposes a training activity for schools to share knowledge and sustainability objectives with children and teachers. Students will face the theme of climate change and desertification, ecosystem services and the fundamental role of biodiversity.  
  Children will contribute to the protection of biodiversity by building and setting up shelters for wild pollinating insects, which are essential for safeguarding the environment, becoming themselves testimonials of sustainability.

 

The hours of commitment foreseen are:

  • 4-6 hours of frontal lessons for the 3 lessons.
  • 6-8 hours of work for the students to collect materials and build hotels to be managed as any homework.
  • 2 hours to create a dossier with photos and a small description of the material placed in the field.

Teaching materials to teachers, i.e. Power Point lessons, a small descriptive video to build shelters, support material about Desert-Adapt, will be provided.

Click here to view the bug hotel concept leaflet.

  
 

For schools and teachers interested to replicate the experience in their schools please contact

Project coordinator: Prof. Simona Castaldi, Università degli studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Regional coordinator Italy (Sicily): Prof. Paola Quatrini  Università degli studi di Palermo This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Regional coordinator Spain (Extremadura): Prof. Fernando Pulido  Universidad de Extremadura This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Regional Coordinator Portugal (Alentejo): Felipe Silva - Associaçao de Defesa do Patrimonio de Mértola  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

  
     
 

 PARTECIPATING SCHOOLS 2021 !

 

           Convitto Nazionale “T. Tasso” di Salerno (IT)

       and 

        L’Istituto Comprensivo Medaglie d’Oro di Salerno (IT)

           Overall 5 classes and 92 students  engaged in the educational activity. 

  

 

The students were involved into 3 specialistic lessons on the main themes of the proposed activity and of the DESERT-Adapt project

  •  desertification and climate risk
  • the role of biodiversity and ecosystem services
  •  how to create a refuge for the pollinators to support biodiversity and ecosystem functions  
 
 
  Students were then directly involved in practical activity with teachers to create their own insect hotel following the instructions learned during the lessons, using materials provided by the nature and easily collected around.    
   
 

They then positioned their newly created bug hotels in open places, at home and at school in the garden. The students were also involved in explaining what they learned and did to younger children from primary schools.They all did a great job and were full of entusiasm!

We hope they can be our young testimonials for a sustainable world!