Plant Partnership

Project 5 (Title mentioning the International dimension and brief description of the project):	Plant partnership: Your Birthday Gift to the Earth Birthday celebration has become the part of life. It is in fact the social custom of our society. The way it was celebrated in the past and now is drastically changed. In the past, one who celebrated his/ her birthday would receive red-coloured tika  from his/her parents and go to temple to worship for their well being. But with the passage of time and development of science and technology, the society has been intermingled; and the way of celebrating birthday is highly influenced by the western culture. People get attracted towards it. People spend a lot in the name of birthday celebration. They book the hotels or restaurants; invite their besties; sing and dance taking drinks. They don’t hesitate to spend any amount of money they have. In this context, the time has come to celebrate our birthday being environment friendly. That is to say instead of spending huge amount of money for it, let’s donate some plants to the mother Earth as birthday gifts and make it evergreen. This will bring a kind of emotional attachment of people with the trees. Hence it proves to be an effective way of environment conservation.
Type:	Public Private Partnership with international Dimension
	Good Heath and Well Being (SDG 3) Sustainable Cities and Community (SDG 11) Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG 12) Climate Action (SDG 13) Life on land (SDG 16)
Minimum three Learning Outcomes- at the end of the activity the students will be able to (Write in terms of Knowledge and Skills):	Identify the importance of plants in our life Explore the roles of plants in climate change Write an essay on advantages of donating plants to the earth. Explore the ways of celebrating festivals in an environment friendly way.
Brief and clear description of Activity that will help in attaining the projected learning outcomes (at least one activity for each learning outcome)	Arrange a meeting with the teachers and students from both schools and discuss about the project idea, date and schedule. Take the students in a barren land and then to a forest to make the point clear how the plants help in maintaining climatic conditions. Divide the students into different groups and ask them to prepare birthday charts of the group. As per the birthday chart, students will come to school with plants on his/ her birthday and plant them in the school premises or even in the public areas. The concerned group shall be solely responsible for its care. Students will write their names next to the plants they planted. Students will visit each other schools and share their ideas and knowledge. Organise a speech competition on the topic of ‘Importance of Planting trees’. Prepare placard and pamphlets and organise street rally with motto “Go Green” Conduct essay writing competition among the students of both school on the topic “Environment Friendly Festivals”. Explore videos of how birthdays and festivals are celebrated in different countries such as India and others.
Month and duration of activity	02Month | 1st August 2019 – 1st October 2019
Classes / no. of pupils involved	Classes 6 & 7| 36 Participants
Countries covered	India, Nepal and Sri Lanka
Subjects covered with curriculum link	Social Science, Class-7 Unit-2.1, Topic- Our Religious and Social Customs)  Science, Class- 6, Unit-16, Topic- Life Process in Plant
Teachers responsible	Shrawan Shah, Komal Adhikari, Roshan Chaudhary and Sunil Rajbanshi
Evaluation methods to measure the learning outcome among the pupils	·          BC evaluation forms ·         Feedback letters. ·         Students assignment ·         Peer assessment ·         Teacher report
Evidences to be provided in the portfolio	·         Photographs with captions. ·         Copy of students’ assignment. ·         Videos. ·         Copy of teachers report.