The European Chain Reaction 2013

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

This is the voting table...

Maybe you wondered who gave you all that points?

Well, look below and you will find out!

Monday, February 4, 2013

On behalf of Dave and his team we proudly present the ECR 2013 NewsFlash.
Enjoy our Belgian partners' presentation.
Congratulations to all participating children, teachers and parents!

ecr2013newsflash from ECR2013 on Vimeo.

Sunday, February 3, 2013

The votes have been counted!

Hi to all chaintists,

Just to inform you all, every country has sent in their votes, all of the votes have been counted and the newsflash has been recorded last Friday as planned!

So, tomorrow we can publish the ECR-2013-newsflash in which we will announce the winner

of this years competition!

This newsflash will be published on the blog at Monday February 4^th at 11:00

Brussels time, so allof you get to know their position in the final ranking then.

We will show you the European Chain Reaction 2013 then too, and it will be a real nice one, since you all were extremely creative this year! I hope all of you will be pleased with the outcome!

On Tuesday I will upload an overview in a votes-table, so all of you can see how many points you received from which countries. (I won’t publish this on Monday to hold the excitement. Now all of you are obliged to watch the newsflash if you want to know your place in the rankingJ!)

Best wishes,

Dave

Thursday, January 31, 2013

OUR CROATIAN UNFINISHED LEGO TOWN Chain Reaction 2013
( our memento from our unfinished funny preparations)

now, as a big THANKS to my pupils who didn't succeed in finishing the second half of our Chain reaction called: 'MEET OUR LEGO TOWN Zadar, Croatia'We've decided to make a Smilebox just to show that we did have a lot of motivation and ideas to do something very visualised, realidstic-our Zadar peninsula in a Chain reaction. Unfortunately, I got ill and this is our memento to fantastic, creative moments spent with me and my class 4b (+ Lea ).
THE SHOW MUST GO ON-anyway! CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hoping you all a lot of success!If it were me, I would give each and every one of you the maximum points! FANTASTIC CHAIN REACTIONS IN 2013!

Much love from Zadar, Croatia
Ksenija Vidmar-Nincevic & my motivated team

PS: we're hoping you'll find our trials as a good funny show-time: we will never forget our clumsiness & trials...

http://smilebox.com/playBlog/4d7a55794e7a6b354d546b3d0d0a&blogview=true

This photo album created with Smilebox

Monday, January 28, 2013

Chain reaction from Holland

Hi everyone,

I had some difficulties uploading the chain reaction from holland..
It won't embed the video therefore I uploaded the link to our video..so I hope you can still see it

greetings
from Holland

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Virtual chain reaction from Poland

Hi,
This chain reaction was made by students from class 6b and 6c. They use Scratch software to make 13 projects. Computers are connected via microphones. Every project end playing sound giving signal to the next computer to play next animation.

Friday, January 25, 2013

The Czech TECHNICAL chain reaction

THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Thank you all for putting off the deadline for us. We were able to create following chain reaction!!! Enjoy!!!

THE VOLCANO CHAIN FROM ICELAND 2013

6th grade from Flataskóli in Iceland

Dear partners

Here is the chain from Iceland this year. We are going to call it „Volcano“ because we life on a volcano island, so if we are not getting an eruption naturally we make it ourselves. Viktor, one of our boys, got that excellent idea to make an eruption chain and it cost a lot of speculations about how to fix it and you can see the result on the video. We put baking soda, water, red colour and soap into the “mountain” and the vinegar in the bowl made the volcano erupt. We made our chain over and over again until we managed to let it work through the whole way and we are very proud of our little volcano chain J

Greetings from 6th grade in Iceland and their teachers

Thursday, January 24, 2013

BULGARIA - THE EUROPEAN CHAIN REACTION 2013

Nine Bulgarian children aged 5-6 years have worked together as a team and fully unaided have created their chain reaction with toys from the school. We hope you will enjoy their achievements and will like them.

While the children were working on project European Chain Reaction 2013, they were amassing scientific experience, were really happy and were having great fun.

Have fun watching the video!

We wish all success!

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

French Team

reaction felix 0001 from reggianio on Vimeo.

2013 European Chain Reaction Turkey

Hello dear friends,

We are the last minute partner of this project. We are only 6 years old . After we had watched your videos wanted to join this project . Unfortunetly, we had so little time :( We set this old cassettes ourselves and our teachers helped us a little :) The weather is cold and we decided light our stove. We enjoyed so much. I hope you enjoyed too.

With Love,

Little Bees

Saturday, January 19, 2013

ECR 13 - Scotland

We present our technical chain reaction- which has been 100% created and put together by the pupils of primary 6. They received absolutely no help from adults at any point. There are admittedly some imperfections, but we are nonetheless very happy once again to have taken part in the project.

We hope you like it, and wish all teams the best of luck in this year's contest. We are certainly enjoying watching all the videos appearing!

Friday, January 18, 2013

The Norwegian Chain Reaction - 2013

European Chain Reaction 2013 - Norway from Jan Erik Log on Vimeo.

The students of the 4th grade had great fun creating this chain reaction. We hope you enjoy ours as much as we have enjoyed watching the already published videos.We look forward to the rest of the entries.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

ECR 2013 - Slovenia

Hello form Slovenia,
this year technical chain was prepared in the 6th class led constructor Matko.
Take a look.
Greetings.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

ECR13 - Germany - UP and DOWN

ECR13 - Germany - UP and DOWN from FSK on Vimeo.

UP and DOWN, this year's title for our chain reaction miraculously intertwined with
some difficulties on trying to put the video online.
Strangely, the VIMEO website was down for a day, so our video had to be uploaded
to the other big video platform for the time being.
Now we are back to normal, but just in case...

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Project history

The European Chain Reaction 2012

The European Chain Reaction 2011

The European Chain reaction is a European Quality Label winning eTwinning project that was first organised in 2011.

The project is a contest and a European collaboration between primary schools from as many as possible European countries.

In the contest primary schools compete for the honour and a nice trophy: Which country builds and films the most astonishing and creative Rube Goldberg / Robert Storm Petersen chain reaction? The competing children are the only judges in this game!

In the end all videos will be edited to ONE BIG CROSS BORDER EUROPEAN CHAIN REACTION! (European Chain Reaction 2011 video)

In 2011 Germany was the outstanding winner of this fun science competition. They made this absolutely amazing video and they learned a lot about pulleys, chains, levers, ...

In 2012 Belgium managed to win the competition by creating this chain reaction!

In 2013 we will have a third edition of the project. We would like to find some extra schools to participate!

Isn't your country mentioned on this blog and your primary school want to join this amazing science competition? Please contact dave at qworzo dot be or find us at the eTwinningforum!

To all joining us: have a "scientific experience" and let's all hope the best Einsteins may win!

Belgium

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!

Czech Republic

ZÁKLADNÍ ŠKOLA A MATEŘSKÁ ŠKOLA MŠEC

We are proud to represent the Czech Republic in this competition. We are a small village basic school not far from the capital city Prague. There are 125 pupils in our school (6 – 15 years old) and 40 in the kindergarten (3 – 6). The primary classes are situated in a former castle (with an interesting history) which makes our school a little special (and romantic). All around the village you can find lots of hop gardens. Do you know what hop is for? You can check our school website with a lot of pictures.

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.

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!

The Netherlands

School Kastanjelaan is situated in Leiderdorp a city of 25.000 inhabitants.The youngest pupils are 4 years old and the oldest are 12 years old. We have 8 different classes and 235 pupils. Our class sizes vary from 16 pupils in our smallest class and 34 pupils in our largest class. The majority of our pupils (allmost 95%) is native Dutch. Our school was founded allmost 80 years ago.

The city of Leiderdorp is very near the the city of Leiden. The cities are seperated by two rivers, the Zijl and the Rijn. The history of Leiderdorp starts in Roman times. In the city there are 33 monuments including several windmills.

We have worked on several Comenius and eTwinningprojects before and we are looking forward to working on the chain reaction!

Norway

Kringsjå skole

Our school is located on the south coast of Norway, just outside the center of Kristiansand. Kristiansand is Norway’s no. 1 summer holiday resort and the fifth largest town in Norway, with 85000 inhabitants.

Situated in a rural area, the school is surrounded by a forest, and within a short walk we also have lakes, the sea, beaches and mountains. We try to use our natural surroundings in our everyday school life.

Kringsjå school is a primary school and this year we have 225 pupils from 1^st to 7^th grade. Norwegians start school at the age of six and leaves for secondary school at the age of thirteen. At our school we have 30 employees, 18 of them are teachers.

Our school has been involved in international projects earlier, and we are happy to take part in this event. The 37 pupils in the 4^th grade are our participants in the European Chain Reaction. We are looking forward to this challenge!

Visit us on our homepage: www.minskole.no/kringsja

Slovenia

Our school lies in Preska, a village not so far away from Slovenia's capital Ljubljana. It consists of two parts: the old and the new one. In the old part we have classrooms for art classes, history and craft, a dining room and a kitchen. We also have a very friendly chef, which will always make you laugh. In the new, bigger part, there are classrooms for Science (Chemistry and Physics), Math, Slovene, English, Music, Biology, Geography and a computer classroom. There are also two gyms and a library with over 14,000 books.

Primary school Preska is visited by students from villages Preska, Golo Brdo, Studenčice, Goričane, Sora and Dol. It also has two branch schools in Topol and Sora. There are about 400 students in our school at the very moment.

Want to know more? Visit our website!

Spain

The CEIP "San Juan" was founded in 1973. It´s a public school with 194 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 ourwebsite here.