Twin Rooms for the Environment
June 25, 2010, 4:31 pm

By Yetel Ricano Noguera
thais@rvictoria.icrt.cu
Translation: Ernesto Gutierrez Pino

Las Tunas .- The project Aulas Hermanas 2010 (Twin Rooms) is an initiative sponsored by the website of the Cuban education in collaboration with the central province of Cienfuegos and offers to the Academic Advisors in Las Tunas the possibility to participate with their results on a blog whose final issue is the climate change.

In this is collaborative online project two classrooms led by their Academic Advisors will develop a research and create a weblog on climate change and environment.

Each Advisor must register his group of students, which will be twinned with another classroom in a different institution of the country to work as a team in the progression of the issue.

The aim is to involve children aged between 12 and 17 years old to foster their creativity, knowledge and responsibility for sustainable development and ecological balance, and the use of new technologies and their usage.

Until July first the Academic Advisors, who decide to participate and register a classroom, will find an open call at the websites CubaEduca and Edusur, while the publication of the winners will take place on December 15 this year.
The School holidays coming up in July and August will be for organization and planning of projects, so that in September the teams will show their project of research, which will be discussed on 15 November with the selection of best researches.

The jury will evalute the creativity and the quality of ideas, the process of information management, the use of Web tools for creating the blog, and analysis, proposals for the changes and the conclusions of the main issue, which may be linked to the impact on the cycles or seasons of agricultural production, the environmental pollution and the efforts of the school and the community to curb its destructive effects and to eradicate its causes .