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Murcia City Council, through the departments of European Programs and Education, directing and Pilar Megía Barnuevo Fatima, respectively, has launched the educational project "Europe in the Schools.
Europe 2.0 ", aimed at schoolchildren in grades 5 and 6 of primary education in the municipality of Murcia, which aims to facilitate knowledge about the European Union, its countries, symbols and institutions, as well as aware of the role of citizens in a united Europe know the major issues currently starring today.
For this course, and following the success of the pilot last year, is expected to participate 759 postgraduate students from 17 centers in the municipality.
The project consists of three parts:
Work in the classroom with educational materials, specific to the teacher and the students with which others seek to achieve the following objectives:
Acquire basic knowledge about the history and evolution of the European Union.
Develop the ability to know and locate the member states of the European Union.
Know the main governing bodies of the European Union.
Discover the existence of the European constitution and the importance of developing a single currency.
European citizens become aware of and understand the duties and rights under them.
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Reinforcement and expansion will be made about additional workshops in the classroom, two hours, allowing the acquisition of new skills in this theme through dynamic viewing of videos with the involvement of school.
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At the same time the workshops will be held in the center panel exhibition on the evolution of creation of the European Union.
The initiative is a comprehensive teaching materials developed especially for schoolchildren in the municipality of Murcia, which includes key issues such as the origins of Europe, the formation of the European Union, the Euro, the European Parliament or the rights and freedoms promotes.
The treatment of this information is presented simply and graphically illustrated in the guidelines developed by educators, consisting of a teaching guide for teachers and a teaching guide for school-based activities to develop in class.
Parallel interactive workshops have been organized to be held in school grounds and the students, with specialized, will review the highlights playing European Union.
The Department of European Programs and continues to promote community awareness and disseminating to the public the importance of belonging to the European Union has earned in recent years to receive the Flag of Honour and the Badge of Honor of the Council of Europe.
In this way, continue with the activities taking place throughout the year and are intensifying around May 9, Europe Day.
This deep knowledge is now more necessary since it is the turn of the Spanish presidency of the European Union.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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