At the moment we are working in our group hours around the theme Home and Habitat. We started with our favorite Bird Bingo to get a feeling for birds sharing the same habitat-ecosystem. Each bingo card has a collection of birds in the same habitat. F
In February and early March we have been really busy visiting Dublin, Krakow and receiving guests from London and Krakow. We had several Skype meetings with partners and learned a lot from all. See for presentations under Events!! Thanks again to all
This past month we have been learning/teaching about electricity. We started with the non-electricity day and followed with the documentary of landsvirkjun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZsA5ZZighY a shorter english version you can see on http://www
The past three weeks, starting fresh after New Year, we have picked up to work for the green flag from Landvernd/FEE.http://landvernd.is/graenfaninn
First we considered what is necessary for us to live, food, air, water, energy and the fact that al
The period of Advent is always very special on Iceland. Preparations for Christmas follow many traditions. In Brúarskóli at Dalbraut we have the tradition to bake ginger bread houses with all students and make a Christmas village. This year though we
Since we learned about the Green Flag project in schools at the congress 11th of October, one of us joined the environmental committee of Brúarskóli as a whole. Besides Dalbraut, Brúarskóli works in three other departments. All in all we have a staff
The past two weeks we have introduced our BGF project and partners more to our students. We have watched several video clips,
London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2WQBD6nNY4&list=PLrMl56IN3_MEzGE96v76vUhWSggtV6UFJ&index=13 and http://www.youtube.c
The biodiversity on Iceland is far less than anywhere else in warmer areas on earth. The nature on Iceland is fragile due to it's northern position on the globe. One advantage is that it is easy to learn about Icelandic species. The only original lan
In the end of October Magnús and I visited London. We were welcomed very warmly by staff and students of CCHS. We managed to visit three of the four sites of CCHS, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Collingham Family Center and St.Mary's Hospital. Col
We kept going with Fantasy creatures and Strange creatures. This might seem a side track, but we liked the idea that over time all kind of fantasy creatures have existed in the minds of people, which actually are quite similar to real strange creatur
Our line of thought jumped from new species, to extinct ones. We got this idea to make a Timeline game for extinct species, similar to the one below. This game is still in process. Individual students might work on it with intervals. To give you a pr
After we finished with trees, we decided to teach about the interconnectedness of all species and chose to work with the theme Biodiversity. Starting point was a small video of the World Wide Fund of Nature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hO5FFRykOA
Slowly we change old habits. From early october we began separate waste collection. We seperate organic, plastic, paper, chemical, metal and unrecycable waste. It seems we still throw away paper the most, though we reuse if possible and print both si
August/September
We started school with the kids 23rd of August. In the first month we started teaching around the theme "The air we breathe and photosynthesis". We chose to start our Big Green Footsteps project like this, from the idea: If we want t