Goal 12 of the Agenda 2030: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
In our everyday lives, plastic is hard to overlook. We drink from plastic bottles, vegetables in the supermarket are packed in plastic, and we use plastic bags for the rubbish bin. But once used, plastic as a disposable product usually ends up in the rubbish very quickly - and then? Only 9% of it is recycled worldwide, the rest ends up in large landfills or in nature. To produce the things we use in everyday life, not only plastic, but also other resources are needed for mobile phones, computers or clothes. But where do these resources come from? Is there an infinite supply of them? Which countries consume more resources than they can provide themselves? And how can we deal more sustainably with limited resources? This and much more is what the students learn in our project weeks and project days on the topic of SDG 12 - Sustainable Consumption and Production! Here you can read short reports on the projects and see some of the digital results the children have produced.
Another successful project week on sustainable food is coming to an end at our long-standing partner school, Andersen Grundschule. Class 5a explored the topic with a great deal of curiosity and energy: How does a tomato actually grow? How does our bread get to the supermarket? Do mangoes grow in Germany? And which vegetables can I plant on my balcony? In the end, they created great comics, a song and a stop-motion video, which you can watch here.
Another exciting project week took place at Andersen Primary School in Berlin Wedding. Under the topic of "Sustainable food - in Germany and around the world", class 4b learnt all kinds of things about food production and what this has to do with the climate. Last but not least, they were also able to plant their own bed, get to know peers from Uganda and create their own comics, songs and videos.
Guests from Uganda, a dance workshop and an excursion to the vegetable garden - our first project week on the topic of "Sustainable Food" was particularly varied! The creative comics, stop-motion videos and songs of the Andersen Primary pupils show how much they have learned during the week.
The children of Andersen Primary School had an exciting week: with games, quizzes and educational videos they learned a lot about plastic waste, waste separation and consumption. During the week, they created the game "Müll Surfer", a comic and a song, which you can see here.
Resources, water, plastic waste and consumption - how is all of this connected and what does it have to do with our environment? This is what the pupils of the Wilhelm von Humboldt Community School explored for a whole week. You can see what they found out in their self-developed games, comics, stories and stop-motion videos!
On 18 September 2021 World Clean Up Day takes place - and the pupils of Andersen Primary School were part of it! Together they collected rubbish in their neighbourhood and were thus actively involved in the campaign against environmental pollution. In June, the children had already participated in a project week on the topic of plastic waste and consumption. The report on the project week with the results can be found here.