1 00:00:00,620 --> 00:00:09,859 Good morning. We are at the public school Carlos Cano, located in Spain, specifically in the town called Fuenlabrada, which is in the community of Madrid. 2 00:00:11,300 --> 00:00:15,720 Our service learning project is called Universally Accessible Gardens. 3 00:00:16,300 --> 00:00:18,379 The objectives we seek are the following. 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,539 To promote the environmental awareness of the participants and their families. 5 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:26,879 To create an accessible garden for the children of the Spiral Association. 6 00:00:26,879 --> 00:00:33,880 generate healthy leisure options in their free time for children of Espiral who are at social risk. 7 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:39,880 The main curricular area in which this service-learning focuses is Natural Science, 8 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:45,880 but other areas such as Spanish language and literature and art are also involved. 9 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:52,899 We will begin explaining the development of service-learning. 10 00:00:52,899 --> 00:00:59,140 It all started with a letter from the association introducing themselves to our students and asking 11 00:00:59,140 --> 00:01:07,859 them how they spent their leisure time. After reading it we went on to hold an assembly and 12 00:01:07,859 --> 00:01:15,750 think of ways to help this association. We continued to investigate what Spiral was, 13 00:01:15,750 --> 00:01:21,430 where it was and which people were in charge of running it. In this way we found out that it was 14 00:01:21,430 --> 00:01:28,069 way close to the school and that we could contact them to learn more about it. A few days later, 15 00:01:28,069 --> 00:01:33,269 we visited their facilities with Monica, the educational coordinator of the association. 16 00:01:35,519 --> 00:01:40,719 We held a classroom assembly to share what we have learned about the association and what we 17 00:01:40,719 --> 00:01:49,510 know and can use to help them. The next step has been to raise the question of what we want to do. 18 00:01:49,510 --> 00:01:55,349 We knew that we wanted to make a vegetable garden in our nature area where the Spirit 19 00:01:55,349 --> 00:02:00,790 Association could come to the school in the afternoon. We also thought that it would be a 20 00:02:00,790 --> 00:02:07,750 great idea to make a vertical garden for them to take care of feed in their facilities and we got 21 00:02:07,750 --> 00:02:15,110 down to work. To make all these proposals it is important to us what do we need to know to carry 22 00:02:15,110 --> 00:02:21,509 them out and we made a vehicle canva where we put everything we need to carry out these proposals 23 00:02:21,509 --> 00:02:28,150 to know this sewing calendar insects that damage crops and possibilities to prevent them from 24 00:02:28,150 --> 00:02:35,430 affecting crops scare crowds vertical vegetable gardens and materials needed to make them first 25 00:02:35,430 --> 00:02:42,629 crops in history families together with the teachers designed a fanging kana in which we 26 00:02:42,629 --> 00:02:48,150 learned many interesting things about how a garden could be as inclusive as possible. 27 00:02:48,150 --> 00:02:52,870 We used wheelchairs to move around, we looked for clues in our garden areas, 28 00:02:52,870 --> 00:02:58,870 we learned interesting facts about European countries and the main crops of each season 29 00:02:58,870 --> 00:03:05,909 of the year. This in Ghana was later carried out by the association with the boys and girls 30 00:03:05,909 --> 00:03:14,659 in the afternoon at our school. Once we knew what we wanted to do, we went on to carry out 31 00:03:14,659 --> 00:03:21,539 many assemblies and researching small and large groups. With all this information and a list of 32 00:03:21,539 --> 00:03:28,979 reused materials, wood, plastic bottles, ropes, we started to design our vertical garden. Once 33 00:03:28,979 --> 00:03:34,979 this proposal is finished, Spiral Association will take it to them so that they can take care of it 34 00:03:34,979 --> 00:03:40,740 in their installation. They don't have enough space for a vegetable garden and we have offered 35 00:03:40,740 --> 00:03:47,699 them this other healthy leisure alternative. Working on the vertical garden we saw the 36 00:03:47,699 --> 00:03:53,699 importance of the substrate to keep the plants well cared for. A father from the school came 37 00:03:53,699 --> 00:04:02,979 to explain us the composter and how to pour on ecological compost. Since that day we have 38 00:04:02,979 --> 00:04:08,659 a vermicomposter with California worms in the classroom and a large compost bin at school. 39 00:04:09,300 --> 00:04:15,300 The fifth grade will be in charge of the weekly tasks that we have to do with the compost bin. 40 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:24,120 We realized that the children needed a guide with the care of the different plants in the vertical 41 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:31,480 garden so that they could take good care of them. We started working as a team to make it and with 42 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:37,879 the help of the ONCE foundation we included braille in it to make it as inclusive as possible. 43 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:44,839 We investigate in small groups how to make a vegetable garden and the necessary materials. 44 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:50,920 We look for funding in the entities with which we collaborate and then we will make a guide 45 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:57,079 with decisional crops as inclusive as possible . 46 00:04:58,439 --> 00:05:02,279 The following activities will take place in the coming months. 47 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:06,360 Regarding the evaluation, our idea is to use two main tools. 48 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:11,759 self-evaluation rubric and co-evaluation. Regarding the rubric we will take as 49 00:05:11,759 --> 00:05:16,959 indicators the contribution of ideas, the research process, the creation of the 50 00:05:16,959 --> 00:05:22,439 portfolio and the development of the inclusive guide. Another evaluation tool 51 00:05:22,439 --> 00:05:27,100 will be the CAHUDA, where the service-learning conceptual learning will 52 00:05:27,100 --> 00:05:32,120 be evaluated. We will continue to make a whole presentation to the 53 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:37,660 classrooms and families, where we will explain the whole process, follow it and the learning 54 00:05:37,660 --> 00:05:38,660 achieved. 55 00:05:38,660 --> 00:05:45,300 We will end with the inauguration day of our vertical garden and our garden for the Spiral 56 00:05:45,300 --> 00:05:51,139 Association, in which will be invited all the people of the educational community, the 57 00:05:51,139 --> 00:05:57,279 people responsible for the Spiral Association, political entities of our environment, the 58 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:01,879 Councilmen of Education, the Director of the District Board.