The Councillor for Environment, Adela Martinez-Cache, this morning visited the activity that takes place through the Ecoaula Education Environment in the hospital classroom Arrixaca.
Although Ecoaula is aimed at schools in the municipality of Murcia, an important role is also developed in the classroom Hospital of Arrixaca.
One Wednesday each month, a team of Environmental Education of the City of Murcia visit the classroom for an educational seminar on the topic included in the program (garbage, recycling, noise, pollution, water, etc.).
Talks are held, exhibitions, displays videos, etc.
Children admitted, aged 3-11 years (corresponding to the nursery and primary), have extensive educational programming in the classroom throughout the week.
The common feature of all these students is their situation of illness, though each with different types of diseases.
Your stay at the hospital, and therefore in the classroom, is usually short (two days to a week).
This month has performed work on recycling.
Seven children have attended this morning to its environmental classes, where they learn the benefits of using recycled to produce all kinds of material elements.
They also displayed a short video of a cartoon character that explained what could be done when the paper we use daily is recycled.
Martinez-Cache has worked with younger in developing star, hearts and other paper items, through recycling of paper.
The hospital Classroom is a space adapted to the diversity of students in age and physical condition resulting from their disease situation.
So, has tables of different sizes and special tables;
space for wheelchairs, sockets and extensions for infusion pumps sera and medicine, space for beds, oxygen connections, etc.
In these classrooms coexist and alternate methodologies varied: development of small projects, work places, workshops and individualized activities.
All of them in order to arouse interest, motivate, create and share varied content (artistic, cultural, scientific, curriculum, etc.) and improve the emotional state of "special" school.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia