Saving Water and Energy in Italy

               SAVING WATER AND ENERGY

 Pupil’s homework

Answer, with your parents, to the set of questions about your household use.

 Schoolwork

• Fill in tables about the use according to the survey done at home
• Estimate the use of water per person
• Estimate the overage use in class
• Compare your date with O.M.S. statistical date
• Make a graphic on the computer to analyse your own use
• Write advice to reduce the water consumption to your parents
• Repeat the test six months later

QUESTIONS ABOUT HOME HABITS

1. How many adults and over four-year olds live in your family? 3
2. How often do you and your family take a shower in a week?  7
3. How long do you let the water run while having a shower?

- short shower: less than 5 minutes

- medium shower: 5-10 minutes x

- long shower: more than 10 minutes

4. What is your shower head like?

- ordinary x

- water-safe / with a flow restrictor

5. How often do you and your family take a bath in a week?  2
6. What's your attitude when you brush your teeth?

- I use the water from the tap x

- I keep the tap on only when needed x

7. How often do you and your family flush the pan in a day? 10
8. What kind of flushing device does your water closet have?

- with a push-button x

- with two push-buttons, of which one used for stopping the water flow.

9. How often do you use the washing machine in a week? 2
10. Which rate is your washing machine?

            - A or upper

- B

- C or lower x

11. How often do you do the washing up in a week? 6
12. How do you do the washing up?

- by hand  x

- by a dishwasher rated A or upper

- by a dishwasher not rated A x

    13. How often do you wash your hands in a day 10

ESTIMATION OF THE AVERAGE WATER CONSUMPTION

REALIZATION OF A CHART OF PERSONAL AND AVERAGE CONSUMPTION

                     ADVICE AIMED AT REDUCING CONSUMPTION

                              WATER CONSUMPTION TABLE

taking a bath	120 to 160 litres
taking a 5 minutes’ time shower	75 to 90 litres
taking a 3 minutes’ time shower	35 to 50 litres
using the flushing device	9 to 16 litres
brushing teeth and letting water run	30 litres
brushing teeth without letting water run	2 litres
manual dishwashing	20 litres
dishwasher washing	30 to 40 litres
washing machine washing	80 to 170 litres
drinking and coking	about 6 litres a day per person
washing hands	2 litres

ESTIMATION OF WATER CONSUMPTION FIORE’S HOUSE

taking a bath	240 LITRES
taking a 5 minutes’ time shower	630 LITRES
taking a 3 minutes’ time shower
using the flushing device	1120 LITRES
brushing teeth and letting water run	420 LITRES
brushing teeth without letting water run	28 LITRES
manual dishwashing	60 LITRES
dishwasher washing	120 LITRES
washing machine washing	340 LITRES
drinking and coking	84 LITRES
washing hands	140 LITRES

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Italian students create art works

Students from Belaso Infant School in Italy have created a big ticket to say goodbye to everyone who participated in the project meeting in Italy in October.

 Other students have just started to create their personal ID (they write about their likes and dislikes, draw themselves etc.)

We learn how to save water and energy

In Sweden students had to do homework about saving water.

Here is Henrik´s homework, he is ten years old. His homework was to write a diary for three days. I send you only his first day. After his three days, he has to answer some questions, you can see it below.

Tuesday 25/10

Morningtoilet
Flushed one time
Washed my face
Brushed my teeth

Breakfast
One glass of water
Washed my hands

School
three glasses of water
Washed my hands

After school activities
Flushed one time
One glass of water

Dinner
Washed my hands

Bedtime
Brushed my teeth
Flushed once

Totally: 24,3 litres

Q&A

1. What can you do to reduce your water consumption? Why is it important to reduce our water consumption?

Not wasting the water and let it run for so long. I can drink milk instead. (;-D)
It is important for the environment and it costs money to clean the water.


2. How much water do you think you need during one day?

ca 3 litres of water, I think


3. In a year you drink five times your own body weight. How many glasses are there in one year. One glass is two decillitres.
My weight is 40 kilos.

40 X 5 = 2000 kg

2000 = 1000 glasses.

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Writing the letters

In October every country had to prepare letters exchange with other countries.
Here are some photos from Italy:

Some photos from Spain:

Students also write letters in English in Portugal however they don't learn English in Primary level:

Drawing the logos

One of the activities was to draw a logo for our project. In every country students were trying to find the best idea of how does the logo should look like. 

The winner logo is designed by Italian students and you can see how does it look like:

Of course it is also interesting to have a look how the process was organized and how well the students worked. Here you can see photos from Italy:

Photos from Spain:

Photos from Portugal:

First meeting in Italy

Yes, we did it! :)

Welcome to our blog!

Finally we have managed to create a blog for our Comenius project "The life near the rivers in Europe". We really hope that this will be interesting experience for us and for you as well. Enjoy!