The European Chain Reaction 2018

Tuesday, 5 December 2017

Human Chain from Iceland

Hello all. Our 4th graders have made their human chain video and are very exciting to begin to make the technical chain after Christmas.
Happy holydays to you from Flataskóli Iceland.

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Ursula + Maria25 December 2017 at 18:06
Happy holidays to you too:)
Good idea!
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Project History

The European Chain Reaction 2017

The European Chain Reaction 2016

The European Chain Reaction 2015

The European Chain Reaction 2014

The European Chain Reaction 2013

The European Chain Reaction 2012

The European Chain Reaction 2011

The European Chain reaction is a European Quality Label winning eTwinning project that was first organised in 2011.

The project is a contest and a European collaboration between primary schools from as many as possible European countries.

In the contest primary schools compete for the honour and a nice trophy: Which country builds and films the most astonishing and creative Rube Goldberg / Robert Storm Petersen chain reaction? The competing children are the only judges in this game!

In the end all videos will be edited to ONE BIG CROSS BORDER EUROPEAN CHAIN REACTION! (European Chain Reaction 2011 video)

In 2011 Germany was the outstanding winner of this fun science competition. They made this absolutely amazing video and they learned a lot about pulleys, chains, levers, ...

In 2012 Belgium managed to win the competition by creatingthis chain reaction!

In 2013 Norway was crowned the ECR-2013 winner as they made this feel-good and up tempo chain reaction!

In 2014 Belgium won the competition for the second time. The pupils created this chain reaction.

In 2015 Kindergarten Rasselband from Germany wonn the title with this amazing machine to feed the sheep.

In 2016 Belgium won its third title with this chain reaction.

In 2017 Belgium won its 4th title.

In 2018 the project is organised for the eight year!

We would like to find some extra schools to participate, so if your country isn't mentioned on this blog and your primary or kindergarten school wants to join this amazing science competition? Please contact dave at qworzo dot be or find us at the eTwinningforum!

To all joining us: have a "sciencerrific experience" and let's all hope the best young Einsteins may win!

Armenia

Yerevan “Mkhitar Sebastatsi” Educomplex of the Ministry of Education and Scinece of RA is a union of educational institutions: 4 primary school-gardens with their kindergartens, a middle school, three high schools, a career college, centers of further education, realizing author (state alternative) pre-school, primary, basic, secondary, preliminary (vocational), career college experimental educational programs.
The Educomplex was founded in 1989 by the resolution of the Government of RA with Ashot Bleyan’s author project, on the bases of Yerevan Secondary School 183.
There are services of a psychologist, speech therapist, art therapist, sociologist, educator for the children with special needs and of a social employee for the education of children with special needs.
From September 2013 all the teachers and learners of Grades 1-12 attend school with their personal note-book/netbooks and tablets giving a good example to all the public schools of our Republic.The audio recorder, digital photo and video cameras and other digital means are everyday used educational tools in the Educomplex.
Besides general education, Educompex has different clubs which run according to the regulations of the Educomplex and curriculums of author educational programs. The aim of the clubs is revelation and enhancement of learners’ preferences (natural gifts).

Austria

Our Jenaplan –School –Wildbach is an elementary school situated in the south of Graz in Styria. Our children are in the age of 6-10 years.

It´s a small school (7 classes) in a rural environment.

For about 10 years the profile of our school is working at the main principles of the "Jenaplan".

The Jenaplan school-concept was developed by Peter Petersen (1884-1952) at the demonstration school (for pre-service teacher education) of the University of Jena, Germany.

This curriculum includes "World orientation", a rythmic weekplan, Discussion, Study and Playing .http://www.jenaplan.nl/nl/rythmic_weekplan.htm(Link in English)

Our school website:www.vs-wildbach.com

If you want to take a look at our homeland -www.deutschlandsberg.atandwww.schilcherheimat.at

Belgium

Qworzó is an elementary school in a small village called Merksplas which lays about 70 km north of Brussels.
We speak Dutch like they do in the Netherlands, since our school is located in Flanders.
Since there are a lot of people in Belgium who speak French we also learn French in school.

Our school teaches about 400 children aged 3,5 – 12 years.
We are very enthusiastic about the fifth anniversary of The European Chain Reaction and we hope many schools will join the project!

Want more info? Visit our website!

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Elementary School "Žepče" in Žepču was established back in 1880.

Teaching in Primary School "Žepče" is performed by two curricula, Croatian and Bosnian. It has a seven regional schools: Bistrica, Lovnica, Lupoglav, Viniste, Seliste, Papratnica and Ravne.

Currently the school has 1,344 students.

In this school today operate numerous sections: literary - poetry, dance, traffic, floristic, drama, sports clubs, choir, orchestra, and sections foreign languages.

We are very excited to participate in the chain reaction 2017!

Czech Republic

England

King’s Ely is an independent school set in the historic and beautiful city of Ely, not far Cambridge. The school was established to educate the boy choristers of Ely Cathedral over 1,000 years ago, making it one of the oldest schools in the world. There are approximately 350 pupils in King’s Ely Junior and, although we have participated in several eTwinning projects, this is our first time in the European Chain Reaction. We are very much looking forward to the challenge.

To find out more about our school, please visit our website onhttp://www.kingsely.org/

Hungary

Teleki Samuel Elementary School is in Érd, Hungary. Érd is a town about 20 km southwest of Budapest, the capital city of Hungary.

The school was established in 1933. The name, Samuel Teleki comes from a famous Hungarian geographer and explorer who mapped the last white spots of Africa in the 19th. century. We have chosen this name in 1991, because the school aims to educate students to become responsible, creative and thoughtful young teenagers. Our school is a member of the Hungarian Eco-School Network.

Now we have about 500 students from 1st to 8th grade. Elementary school starts at the age of 6 in Hungary and our students continue to secondary schools at the age of 14. Ther are 59 employees in our school, including 44 teachers.

The school has started to take part in international European projects three years ago. We are looking forward to take part in the European Chain Reaction. We - especially the students of year 5 - hope that it is going to be a great challenge and fun for us.

Our webpage

Iceland

Flataskóli is a primary school. The pupils are from 4 to 12 years old (kindergarten and 1st to 7th grade). There are nearly 540 pupils in the school and about 80 members of staff, teachers and others employees. Flataskóli is located in Garðabær, a town of 15.000 inhabitants, 14 km south of Reykjavík. Flataskóli is the oldest educational establishment in Garðabær. Good behaviour together with a positive attitude are hallmarks of Flataskóli. The school has a special outdoor teaching area in a grove nearby in harmony with a stream and lava field. The seashore is within walking distance from school. The school also emphasizes UNICEF‘s Convention of the Rights of the Child and works for its implemantation. We have collaborated in 50 eTwinning projects over the last 10 years.

Italy

“Antonio Gramsci” Primary School

Ghilarza ( Oristano) Sardinia (Italy)

Our School is located in Ghilarza , a town of 5000 inhabitants in the centre of Sardinia, close to an artificial lake, about 50 Km from the West coast of the island. In its surroundings there are lots of archaeological sites ( Nuragic and Romanarchitecture and civilisation). Sardinian people speak two languages: Sardo and Italian.

Our school has about 225 children aged 6/11 and 20 teachers.

In school year 2010/2011 we started our European adventure thanks to the presence of a Comenius Assistant and we won the European Label 2011!!.

Want to learn more about us? Visit our website!

Latvia

Pāle Primary School is situated in a small rural village with about 700 inhabitants, in the northern part of Latvia 22 km from the Baltic Sea. There are 90 students (7-16 years old) in the Primary school level, 29 children in the preschool group, 18 teachers and 8 technical workers.

The school was built in 1936. About 20 students have learning difficulties and some students are at a risk of social exclusion. For that reason we are realizing not only the general education programme, but also the programme for students with the learning difficulties. Every year our students participate in regional Olympiads of school subjects, different projects, sports, music and art competitions, showing good results. http://palesskola.lv

Lithuania

ŠIAULIAI „JUVENTA“ SCHOOL

school doors opened in 1971 in its first generation and in 1999/2000 school year, pupils and teachers chose her a new name: „Juventa“ High School.Our school always was famous of it‘s music. Our school is famous not only for his musical achievements. Our students actively participate in various arts, sports contests and competitions. The school is decorated with ever-changing exhibition of works by students. Students participate in various projects: the Comenius, eTwinning, the city and the republic. You can find a primary school drama, road safety, the fine arts section in „Juventa“ school. Visit our website!

Norway

Kringsjå skole

Our school is located on the south coast of Norway, just outside the center of Kristiansand. Kristiansand is Norway’s no. 1 summer holiday resort and the fifth largest town in Norway, with 85000 inhabitants.

Situated in a rural area, the school is surrounded by a forest, and within a short walk we also have lakes, the sea, beaches and mountains. We try to use our natural surroundings in our everyday school life.

Kringsjå school is a primary school and this year we have 225 pupils from 1^st to 7^th grade. Norwegians start school at the age of six and leaves for secondary school at the age of thirteen. At our school we have 30 employees, 18 of them are teachers.

Our school has been involved in international projects earlier, and we are happy to take part in this event. The 31 pupils in the 5^th grade are our participants in the European Chain Reaction. We are looking forward to this challenge!

Visit us on our homepage: www.minskole.no/kringsja

Slovenia

Our school lies in Preska, a village not so far away from Slovenia's capital Ljubljana. It consists of two parts: the old and the new one. In the old part we have classrooms for art classes, history and craft, a dining room and a kitchen. We also have a very friendly chef, which will always make you laugh. In the new, bigger part, there are classrooms for Science (Chemistry and Physics), Math, Slovene, English, Music, Biology, Geography and a computer classroom. There are also two gyms and a library with over 14,000 books.

Primary school Preska is visited by students from villages Preska, Golo Brdo, Studenčice, Goričane, Sora and Dol. It also has two branch schools in Topol and Sora. There are about 400 students in our school at the very moment.

Want to know more? Visit our website!

The European Chain Reaction 2018

Tuesday, 5 December 2017

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Croatia

Czech Republic

England

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Finland

France

FYROM

Germany

Hungary

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Latvia

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Norway

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