The Dnipro Day - 2003

Вверх на один уровень

 

 

This year the project consists of some separate sub projects: “Ecological actions”, “A Journey to the Water Dipolar country of its Majesty the Dnieper/ the Dnipro river”, “The Ros river – the ancient Rus cradle”, ”Hydronyms of Ukrainian inland waters”

 

 

 

1. Name of the project: “Ecological projects”.

 

2. The main idea: to educate students to be ecologically conscious and cultured, to share experiences and to give methodic recommendations as to the organization of ecological actions, to collect the data on the results of the work.

 

3. Description of the project: at the beginning of the work all participants are given ecological calendars, which are also placed on the web site of the project. The main attention is paid to the arrangement of the Dnipro river Day. Participants are suggested to introduce their ideas as to the organization of actions or festivals; to produce methodic workouts or scripts of the actions, which are suggested by the plan. It will help those who want to take part in them but don’t know how to do it to prepare the actions, and encourage them to develop their own creative activity. Then the participants and organizers send messages with their impressions. It would be nice if you sent pictures, poems or photos. If you carry on propaganda or educational work involving local inhabitants or all students of your school, send some examples of leaflets and handouts you use. 

 

4. Ages: 12 years and older, teachers and scientists, parents, the broad public.

 

5. Dates: October, 15 2002- April, 30 2003

 

6. Expected results: data of ecological actions workouts (publication is possible)

 

7. Number of participants: all who are environmentally friendly and concerned about the future of our planet.

 

8. Languages: Ukrainian, Russian.

 

9. Coordinator: Lesya Olexiivna Hurtenko, Alla Petrivna Zabarna – teachers of Lyceum of Natural History and Mathematics.

E-mail: lyceum@ck.ukrtel.net

Tel./ fax +38 (04733) 4 02 15, 4 03 15

Lyceum of Natural History and Mathematics, 70, Lenin Str., Smila, Chercasy region, Ukraine, 20702

 

 

 

Short description of the project: to collect and to analyze as much interesting information about the water as possible. To define the properties of water and make a qualitative analysis of the Dnipro and other rivers water (spring water, water-pipe water, mineral water etc.)

 

Full description of the project: the work is done in some route or directions across the country Water Dipolar of its Majesty the Dnipro river. At the fires stage the retinue of its Majesty the Dnipro makes up a map of the journey. To succeed in it all participants have to be registered: they may send their photos (if they wish), a picture or a photo connected with the topic of the discussion –Water, some interesting questions about it, about the Dnipro. To be registered participants also take special names they want and decide what persons from the kingdom they would like to meet. This stage lasts one month.

 

At the second stage water Dipolar  together with his assistants chooses the most interesting questions of the participants of the journey. Participants are given one week to answer the complex of the questions (2-3). The assistants and retinues of Water Dipolar work with the answers and define the best and the most original of them. The second journey takes 1-2 months.

 

The third direction is devoted to studying chemical properties of water. Dipolar and his assistants conduct practical lessons and then discuss the results of the work. The third stage lasts 2-3 weeks.

 

The fourth route is the most exciting, the longest, the most difficult and the most dangerous. The travelers make a qualitative analysis of the Dnipro water and some other water. This journey lasts 3 months.

 

At the last stage Dipolar and his assistants sum up the results and put them into the web site.

 

Ages: 12-13 years and older

 

Term of work of the project: one year.

 

Expected results: journey to the country of Water Dipolar, its Majesty the Dnipro and getting as much useful information as possible.

 

Importance of the project for other people: in spite of the fact that there is a lot of water on the Earth, it’s too little. It’s obvious why a lot: there are oceans, glaciers, rivers and rains. Why little? – Because mankind spoils more water than it can purify, because the bigger part of water on the planet is not water but a salt solution.

There is a saying: “We live on a powder keg, water is a delayed-action bomb”. So each of us has to do all he can to prevent this bomb from exploding – we must spare pure water, cherish it as our treasure, avert the danger of water pollution.

 

Ancient Romans found it rather difficult to use beautiful words when expressing well-known things. In our project we’ll try to do just the same when systematizing known properties of water, investigating the state of the Dnipro basin, the river which is the main source of fresh water for a lot of people, who live on it’ banks.

 

Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, English, French.

 

Contact: Coordinator Irina Radko, First City Gymnasium, Chercasy, Ukraine.

 

 

 

The description of the project “The Ross river – the cradle of ancient Rus”, subproject of  “The Dnipro Pure Water”.

 

1. Name of the project: “The Ross river – the cradle of Rus”

 

2. Short description of the project: investigations and analysis of the Ross river from ecological, ethnographical, topographic and historical points of view

 

3. Full description of the project: the Ross river was a life-giving force, the geographic center of the Polyany tribe union. Its name is historically connected with the formation of Kiev Rus. What is the ecological state of the river like today, how are cultural values of the people who lived in Polissya preserved, where do the names of settlements come from? - Participants will find the answers to all these questions during the preparations and during the expedition, and will share the results of their search on line/ with help of Internet and during the festival

 

4. Ages: 12 year students and older, adults.

 

5. Stages of work:

I: Introduction of teams – January 2003

II: Formation of the basic team (the team which works out the itinerary) – February 2003

III: Routes and itinerary work out, formation of the expedition teams – March-May 2003

IV: Expedition starts – the end of June 2003

V: Festival of participants of the expedition – beginning of July 2003

 

6. Number of participants: 5 teams and more (school-members), 20 people in each

 

7. Expected results: collected reports of the expeditions, the festival of the participants, web site.

 

8. Importance of the project for the other people: the project will help to study the history of our country better, to preserve its cultural values, to raise ecological consciousness, to improve tourist training of participants, to use their knowledge and experience at the lessons of geography, history, literature, language, music, native land studies, to study folk art.

 

9. Languages: Ukrainian, Russian.

 

10. School subjects involved in the project: geography, native land studies, literature, history, informatics, arts, languages, music.

 

11. Coordinators: Nataliya Ptrushko, Anastasia Anosova, tel. +38 (04463) 59675

12. Address: 33 Shevchenko Str., School №18, Bila Tserkva, Ukraine, 09100

13. Coordinators’ e-mail: school18@bel.com.ua

 

 

 

Attention! Attention!

 

All who are curious, witty, persistent and not indifferent are invited to participate in creative activities – to take part in our new telecommunicate project.

The subject for discussion has been dear and interesting to you since childhood. In hot sunny days you enjoyed the freshness of a lake, a river or a rivulet. When you grew up you heard from older people how these rivers and lakes got their names. The legends were romantic and sad, interesting and exciting. And though sometimes “the name exists but there is no river any more” (as Ukrainian poetess Lina Kostenko wrote), the story of its origin is unique, it goes back to remote ages of the history and  there are no indifferent to it.

 

In a modest name, in a native dear word

We feel the ages’ depth,

Our forefathers teach us

How to love and honor ancient times.

Dmytro Bilos.

 

So, we invite all those who wish and are not indifferent – teachers and students - to participate in creative activities and

To say a word about the native land

Sparing no efforts

And caring about popular science style

Dmytro Bilos.

 

1. Name of the project: “Hydronyms of inland waters of Ukraine”

 

2.The main aim: to involve participants into investigation and native land studying, to enlarge their knowledge about its hedonism – the origins of rivers, lakes and springs names; to stir up students’ patriotic feelings; to teach them to investigate and find necessary materials in different sources of knowledge; to deal with people, to interview them.

 

3. Short description of the project: the Earth is a book, in which the history of mankind is written in geographic nomenclature; the Earth is a book of the history of your nation. Explanation of hydronyms content and the changes that took place during the time of their existence.

 

4. Full description of the project: after getting information about the origin of hydronyms’ names in your land with the help of old-residents and investigation studies of special literature from various sources all the participants send their stories, legends about the names of the rivers, lakes, springs and streams.

Tell about the unique tales connected with these names in your native land and your creative work find will discover the essence of well known strangers from the Hydrosphere country, those which are near us but we seldom think about the meanings of their names, origin, components they consist of, their background – roots of ancient times, historic past or people fortunes and mode of life. It’s necessary to indicate the source of information (old-residents, archives, special reference literature). If the legend was written from an old-resident’s words give his first name, patronymic and surname, date of birth and address.

You can also add information about picturesque places connected with a definite river, lake or spring.

 

5. Design: size A-4, print 12, interval 2, margin 2-1

 

6. Ages: 10-16 years for students, any for teachers.

 

7. Dates: January – June 2003.

 

8. Activities:

- meetings with old-residents of your region, their stories recording with short information about the teller;

- photographing of unique places connected with the theme of the project; computer design.

 

9. Expected results:

-creation of the web site;

-geographical map of Ukraine, of the district with the files descriptions of objects;

-edition of collected creative works of participants.

Importance of the project: to make people think about the changes which take place in their lives, to involve them into creative work by means of communicating and research work, to unite people of different generations for this work; to collect valuable teaching and educational material.

 

11. Languages: Ukrainian, Russian.

12. Contact: Irina Yavna – geography and economic studies principles teacher, the I. Trush Gymnasium, Brody, Lviv region, Ukraine.

13. E-mail: yavna@ukr.net