The European Chain Reaction 2014: metamorphosis - The German Chain Reaction 2014

Monday, 20 January 2014

metamorphosis - The German Chain Reaction 2014

And now -in the final year of our participation in this wonderful project-
for something completely different. :-)

An idea has rumbled about at the back of our minds right since we finished last year's edition of the ECR project: And here we are, this time with a lot of (un)real (com)motion. It's all about STOP and MOTION.

In our set of technical chain reactions you can follow a character transforming into different shapes on its way through the "worlds in boxes" which our 1st to 6th graders built during their winter holidays.
Fittingly, our video is entitled metamorphosis.

And as Andreas, the ingenious parent who coordinated all our chain reactions, likes to say:
"We certainly can't do without fire!" Hence the hot showdown.

Please enjoy this year's entry from Freie Schule Kassel:

14 comments :

Dave Schrauwen21 January 2014 at 19:38
Hi Steffen and German team,

The pupils in my classroom enjoyed watching your chain reaction a lot! They think it is funny and they liked the fire, so Andreas was completely right about that!

We noticed a whole lot of preparation must have gone into the preparation of this video! You created a whole new world with this entry, so congratulations!

Excellent editing too!

Kind regards,

Dave

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St Félix22 January 2014 at 14:26
We love your idea!
You are very impressive because every year you find a new and wonderful idea.

French Team
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Achim23 January 2014 at 08:53
Sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr schön. Besonders der Typ mit dem Keks!

Achim
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Ursula + Maria23 January 2014 at 13:11
Hi Germany!

Great work - we like it!

Greetings from
Team Austria
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Tatjana23 January 2014 at 15:13
Very good, we love it.
Team Slovenia
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Adrian Norway27 January 2014 at 15:13
Very good
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Sondre27 January 2014 at 15:55
Cool video
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Hanne from belgium27 January 2014 at 16:20
it's something different but fun hearing
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Luna from Belgium27 January 2014 at 17:10
Wow! That is creative! Made super nice and made cool sounds! Nicely done!
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Liam from Belgium28 January 2014 at 17:18
Fun!
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Juan Sánchez-Garrido Escudero28 January 2014 at 21:15
Very clever your chain as puppet theater story. And very easy to understand the universal language of onomatopoeic sounds and noises. Well done!!!
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Sunce29 January 2014 at 14:18
Nice..very creative and inovative.
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verginiavr29 January 2014 at 19:30
The new technologies in the school! Amazing work, Stefan! Congratulations!
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Signe30 January 2014 at 17:00
a very nice video.
I very much liked this video.
:)
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Project history

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 creating this chain reaction!

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

In 2014 we will have a fourth edition of the project. We would like to find some extra schools to participate!

Isn't your country mentioned on this blog and your primary 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!

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.at and www.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 European Chain Reaction 2014 and we hope many schools will join the project!
Want more info?
Visit our website

2011 position - 2nd

2012 position - winner

2013 position - 3rd

Croatia

Kindergarten "ŠARENA LOPTICA" is a private kinderagarten in the middle of Croatia-Zagreb.

We are sport's Kindergarten, so we exercize every mornning, and also we are gonig to the swimmnig pool.

Program in our Kindergarten is on croatian, but we learn english language during daily rutines, games, stroys etc.

Our group has 31 childe, and 3 teachers 1 coach, 1 cleaninng woman and 1 prentice.

Name of our Kindergarten can be translate "colorfull ball" so we can tell that we really are color full with beatiful diversaty.

Want more info: http://www.dv-sarenaloptica.hr/o-nama.html

Czech Republic

ZÁKLADNÍ ŠKOLA A MATEŘSKÁ ŠKOLA MŠEC

We are proud to represent the Czech Republic in this competition. We are a small village basic school not far from the capital city Prague. There are 125 pupils in our school (6 – 15 years old) and 40 in the kindergarten (3 – 6). The primary classes are situated in a former castle (with an interesting history) which makes our school a little special (and romantic). All around the village you can find lots of hop gardens. Do you know what hop is for? You can check our school website with a lot of pictures.

2012 position - 4th

2013 position - 4th

Georgia

Batumi Public School N2

The older history thing has, the richer it is. We are proud of our school, because of its eternal history. More than hundred years ago, in Soviet times, in Batumi it was very difficult to set up any new educational establishment, but local community could manage to base women’s gymnasium. In the course of time the gymnasium turned into mixed-gendered public school. Nowadays, the school is divided into two parts. The first one is old historical campus, which was reconstructed, and the second is modern one. Our school has two gyms (but we would like it to be better equipped) the computers class, the biology and chemistry labs. Here you can meet students from all religion confessions and also students with special needs. In the second public school, there are several kinds of clubs where students have possibility to demonstrate their leadership potential. (Such as evil club, drama club, intellectual club etc.) In addition, since 2005 students have great opportunity to participate in all kind of exchange programs all over the world that gives magnificent experience for our pupils to get in touch with European culture and become a part of it.

Iceland

Flataskóli is a compulsory elementary school. The pupils are from 6 to 12 years old (1st to 7th grade) In the school are nearly 300 pupils and about 50 members of staff, teachers and others employees. Flataskóli is located in Garðabær, a town of 10.000 inhabitants, 14 km south of Reykjavík. Flataskóli is the oldest educational establishment in Garðabær and the school is founded on trust and stability. Good behaviour together with a positive attitude and ethos are hallmarks of Flataskóli. The school has a speicial outdoor teaching area in a grove nearby in harmony with a stream and lava. The seashore is within walking distance from school.

2011 position - 4th

2012 position - 9th

2013 position - 6th

Latvia

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!

2011 position - 9th

2012 position - 14th

2013 position - 7th

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 37 pupils in the 4^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

2013 position - winner

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!

2012 position - 10th

2013 position - 8th

Spain

The CEIP "San Juan" was founded in 1973. It´s a public school with 163 students of preschool and primary education. It is placed in Antequera, a beautiful town 43 kilometres at the north of Málaga. Antequera is in the centre of Andalusia in the south of Spain. Our school is in the suburbs of the town, but we have a nice landscape to enjoy. Some students at school are from other countries. Now we are learning the informatics technologies and we are beginning to know others schools in Europe like in this project. You can visit ourwebsite here.

2011 position - 8th

2012 position - 16th

2013 position - 15th

The Netherlands

School Kastanjelaan is situated in Leiderdorp a city of 25.000 inhabitants.The youngest pupils are 4 years old and the oldest are 12 years old. We have 8 different classes and 235 pupils. Our class sizes vary from 16 pupils in our smallest class and 34 pupils in our largest class. The majority of our pupils (allmost 95%) is native Dutch. Our school was founded allmost 80 years ago.

The city of Leiderdorp is very near the the city of Leiden. The cities are seperated by two rivers, the Zijl and the Rijn. The history of Leiderdorp starts in Roman times. In the city there are 33 monuments including several windmills.

We have worked on several Comenius and eTwinningprojects before and we are looking forward to working on the chain reaction!

2013 position - 11th

The European Chain Reaction 2014

Monday, 20 January 2014

metamorphosis - The German Chain Reaction 2014

14 comments :

This is a European Quality Label winning eTwinning project!

Austria

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

Belgium

Bulgaria

Croatia

Czech Republic

Denmark

England

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

Iceland

Latvia

Lithuania

Norway

Poland

Romania

Scotland

Slovenia

Spain

The Netherlands

Turkey