The European Chain Reaction: January 2011

Saturday, January 29, 2011

The results...

After all votes have been counted, the jury came to this list:

1st Germany 125 points
2nd Belgium 119 points
3rd Normay 112 points
4rd Iceland 109 points
5th Scotland 95 points
6th England 81 points
7th Poland 79 points
8th Spain 76 points
9th Lithuania 66 points
10th Romania 48 points
11th Slovakia 45 points
12th Bularia 44 points
13th Croatia 15 points

Monday, January 24, 2011

European Chain Reaction Newsflash

Hi to all viewers. The votes have been counted and now comes the moment of the truth. Who has won this science competition and how fabulous is THE EUROPEAN CHAIN REACTION?

Watch and enjoy the newsflash!

Untitled from qworzoL6A on Vimeo.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Monday January 24th - 11:00 CET - The European Chain Reaction newsflash!!!

Hi all,

Friday the kids at Qworzó, Belgium, recorded the European Chain Reaction newsflash!

Tomorrow the video will be posted at 11:00 CET on this blog, so all of you can see who has won this science competition!

In this newsflash we will show the CROSS BORDER EUROPEAN CHAIN REACTION for the first time to the world!

We want to thank everybody who has contributed to this project!

I hope these kind of projects may bring peace and understanding to all cultures, religions and nationalities!

Kind regards!

Dave

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The way things go ...

While we are all eagerly waiting for the final results of all the national votings to be published on Monday we would like to gap that bridge by presenting you a classical chain reaction film.
It was first shown here in Kassel in 1987 during the documenta exhibition and is now displayed in the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Croatian Chain alphabet reaction (Croatia)

The Romanian Chain Reaction (Romania)

Friday, January 14, 2011

Slovak Chain Reaction (Slovakia)

Thursday, January 13, 2011

A small chain from Poland

Hello Everybody,
at the very beginning of this project, we thought it would be an easy task, but it wasn't.
Anyway, we had a lot of fun while planning and working on it.
Our video doesn't have any music added, but you can hear pupils' voices instead :) so ... it's not a silent movie. These are 5th and 1st grade pupils.

We have already watched your productions and must say that we've been amazed how creative and smart some of you are.!!!

Best wishes from Poland.

The chain from Iceland

Hello all

Here comes our part in this project. It took blood, sweat and tears to finish it, but here it is. But after watching a few videos of chain reactions our students had a brainstorming session on how their chain should look like. In the end they desided that their chain should be the outline of their home country, Iceland. We had a few rehearsals in our classroom which went well. The final lineup went very well and the class shoved a great teamwork. We really enjoyed working on this project and encourage others to do the same or simular projects. We hope you enjoy it.

Teachers and students in grade 6 in Flataskóli.

The Bulgaria Chain Reaction

It was one of the funniest thing we have ever done:We enjoyed e lot because it was not obedient- the chain fell down when it wanted or the air blew up it:)))
Good luck to everyone!!!

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Germany's Chain Reaction

Here we go with the German entry to the European Chain Reaction.
After a week of building and some hours of editing we hope that you will enjoy our two-minute-video as much as we enjoyed this whole project.

If you have trouble loading the HD video click here for a smaller version:
http://www.vimeo.com/18713406

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

ENGLAND's CHAIN REACTION

Our contribution, if a bit rushed, is ready just in time to meet the deadline! We look forward to being able to view everyone else's work over the coming week. All should go smoothly once we have worked out how to bypass our authorities strict firewall policy!!

The Lithuanian Chain Reaction (Lithuania)

Thursday, January 06, 2011

Scotland's chain reaction

Hello everyone!

Here is the chain reaction from the Scottish class, in Yester Primary School. The whole class took part in many tests, as the children thought about how they could create something completely on their own, and finally seven boys were chosen to create the end result. They had help and advice from the other pupils too.

We hope you enjoy watching the video, and we certainly look forward to seeing all the other chain reactions when we come back to school next week.

Good luck to all the competitors!

Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Chain reaction from Norway

Dear partners!

Due to the strict rules and copyright law, we couldn't add Diana Ross' Chain Reaction to our video (just offline - and it sounds GREAT!).
So, our video is a silent video - but we would like you to play her song (if you find it at YouTube, or have a CD playing along when watching the video, that is up to you;-))

We enjoyed our project a lot - now we're looking forward to see all yours, and of course; Dave's "European Chain Reaction (all our videos together).

Kind regards, Britha and her classes (4th. and 5th. grade) from Skare barneskule

CONGRATULATIONS TO the HUMAN CHAIN REACTION video

Hi!
I'm very impressed by the fabulous, intelligent, charming and funny 'HUMAN CHAIN REACTION' video!
So clever, yet, so easy!
So creative, with moral & fairplay & clear, meaningful messages!
I'm thrilles, as is my Croatian team!
Well done, Dave!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
Ksenija

Bulgaria

Croatia

Hi from Zadar, an ancient, 3 thousand old Mediterrannean beauty on the Adriatic coast. The main part of Zadar is our peninsula that is surrounded by medieval walls. Apart from many churches, museums, galleries...there are two modern tourist attractions: 'Greetings to the sun' and 'Sea organs' (music is produced by the waves). Our Bartula kasica Primary school is situated in the suburbs of Zadar. There are about one thousand students (aged 7 to 4) who attend school in 2 shifts.They teach English as the first foreign language from the first grade, but can choose Italian or German in the grade 4. We are happy to offer our pupils the chance to meet their international pals through many eTwinning projects we take part in as much as by taking part in Comenius Project.
Visit our school website!

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.

Malta

Hi from Rabat, Malta. Malta is a small island (part of an archipelago, covering a total area of 300km). Rabat is situated near the old capital of Malta and is very rich in archeological finds especailly from the Roman era.

Our school is a public primary for both boys and girls. It consists of 2 seperate buildings and it caters for about 500 students from age 3 to 11. All children learn two languages: Maltese and English, and the upper classes are presently being introduced to German. The school forms part of a St. Nicholas college which joins together 6 other villages.

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!

Poland

Szkoła Podstawowa w Jaźwinie is a small village primary school in Lower Silesia Region. It is located 50 km from Wroclaw, near to German and the Czech Republic borders . It is a very small school with 13 teachers and about 80 pupils. We have a pre-school group and the youngest children are 4 years old. The oldest are 13 years old and they are pupils of year 6. Our native language is Polish but children learn English as a foreign language. Pupils are ready to build a chain reaction and eager to enter the competition. The tower you can see doesn't belong to school, it's a church tower.You can visit our school website!

Slovakia

Primary school – Levice, Slovakia

Our school is a public primary school with 710 children. It hosts classes specialized in sports - ice hockey, swimming and volleyball, and classes specialized in languages where talented children learn at least two foreign languages. The most popular are English, German and Russian language. There are also classes with children with special needs. Teachers try to perform creative lessons, so we work on many projects - etwinning, some national projects and Comenius one, too.

If you want to learn more about our school, visit the webpage www.zspodlelv.edupage.org. For those interested in projects the webpage of our Comenius project is www.comenius.webovka.eu.

Spain

The CEIP "San Juan" was founded in 1973. It´s a public school with 240 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 our website here.