{"id":157,"date":"2018-01-17T09:40:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T08:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/?page_id=157"},"modified":"2018-06-25T10:07:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T09:07:50","slug":"ekopolis-box","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/?page_id=157","title":{"rendered":"Ekopolis Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-537 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Ekopolis-Box-Titelblatt_engl-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Ekopolis-Box-Titelblatt_engl-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Ekopolis-Box-Titelblatt_engl-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Ekopolis-Box-Titelblatt_engl-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Ekopolis-Box-Titelblatt_engl-1200x1697.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 85vw, 212px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-262\" src=\"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pic1942443-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pic1942443-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pic1942443-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pic1942443.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/>Based on the fact that environmental education was one of the fields that both teachers and youth workers unexceptionally wanted to cover within the project, the Ekopolis box provided children and youth with the opportunity to do so. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekopolis.cz\/hmenu\/english.aspx\">Ekopolis\u00a0<\/a>is a board game developed by the project partner SCIO. It playfully teaches young people about ecology and sustainable cities and towns. At the same time the box introduces kids to many new ecological and urban space concepts as well as related english vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>The Ekopolis Box teaches about environmental issues based on a board game with a whole variety of created follow-up activities, exercises and hand-on tasks covering associated topics. The box includs topics such as understanding the basic concept of &#8220;environment&#8221;, sources of pollution and how to avoid pollution, a short insight into energy generation as well as buildings and areas we can find in our environment, town our city, what are the purposes of these buildings and how do they impact our environment, the human footprint, the topic of recycling etc.<\/p>\n<p>Some tasksheets of the Ekopolis Box:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-573\" src=\"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/4-ekopolis-example1-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/4-ekopolis-example1-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/4-ekopolis-example1.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 85vw, 217px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-574\" src=\"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/4-ekopolis-example2-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/4-ekopolis-example2-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/4-ekopolis-example2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 85vw, 216px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-575\" src=\"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/4-ekopolis-example3-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/4-ekopolis-example3-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/4-ekopolis-example3.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 85vw, 214px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the box is to raise the students awareness about environmental issues and how we can behave, choose and create our environment in a way, that protects the environment we&#8217;re living in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-130\" src=\"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kosice-1-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kosice-1-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kosice-1-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kosice-1-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kosice-1-1200x720.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kosice-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; color: #999999;\"><em>Copyright Head in the Clouds Consortium &#8211; Picture by SCIO<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To download the content of this box please visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/?page_id=351\">\u201cHow to learn in the clouds\u201d<\/a> section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the fact that environmental education was one of the fields that both teachers and youth workers unexceptionally wanted to cover within the project, the Ekopolis box provided children and youth with the opportunity to do so. Ekopolis\u00a0is a board game developed by the project partner SCIO. It playfully teaches young people about ecology &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/?page_id=157\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ekopolis Box&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-157","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainsintheclouds.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}