SoilTales: Citizen science and comics for healthy soils in secondary education
Greece
About
Citizen science, comic creation, and storytelling.
SoilTales is a six-month citizen science and comics initiative led by Web2Learn in Greece. Implemented in Lemnos, Thessaloniki, Athens, and Lefkada, it expanded from six secondary schools to twelve schools and engaged about 260 students from elementary, junior high, and high schools. Students collect local soil data, explore soil health, and transform their learning into comic-based narratives with support from Athens Comics Library. Final events celebrate students’ work and strengthen awareness of soil biodiversity, sustainability, and citizen science.
Project overview
Young learners’ limited awareness of soil health challenges and their role as citizen scientists in monitoring and protecting soil.
Introductory workshops on soil health and citizen science in Lemnos and Thessaloniki; hands-on soil exploration in schoolyards followed by an online introduction to comic creation principles; two comic creation workshops; SoilTales Fest, with students, teachers and municipal representatives—one event in each region; extension to additional school levels and two new regions: three high schools in Athens, one in Lefkada, and two elementary schools in Lemnos.
Engages students as citizen scientists collecting and sharing local soil data, then translating knowledge into comic-based narratives about soil health, biodiversity, and sustainability.
Web2Learn – Katerina Zourou; Athens Comics Library – Vasileia Vaxevani, Olia Dakogianni and Lida Tsene.
Young learners’ limited awareness of soil health challenges and their role as citizen scientists in monitoring and protecting soil.
Engages students as citizen scientists collecting and sharing local soil data, then translating knowledge into comic-based narratives about soil health, biodiversity, and sustainability.
Introductory workshops on soil health and citizen science in Lemnos and Thessaloniki; hands-on soil exploration in schoolyards followed by an online introduction to comic creation principles; two comic creation workshops; SoilTales Fest, with students, teachers and municipal representatives—one event in each region; extension to additional school levels and two new regions: three high schools in Athens, one in Lefkada, and two elementary schools in Lemnos.
Web2Learn – Katerina Zourou; Athens Comics Library – Vasileia Vaxevani, Olia Dakogianni and Lida Tsene.
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