Activities for schools
Schools have the opportunity to visit the Maresme Integral Centre for Waste Recovery, where the county’s municipal waste is treated, and they can also take part in an educational workshop at their school as a preliminary activity.
The visit to the Centre’s facilities is accompanied by monitors and can be made every working day, from Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 5 pm. Three tours are available: the whole Centre (duration 2h 30 min), the REMAINDER Treatment Plant (duration 2h) and the Energy Recovery Plant (duration 1h 30 min).
The visit begins with an introduction and video presentation of the Maresme Consortium for Municipal Solid Waste Treatment. Then, in subgroups of a maximum of 15 students, the tour begins, accompanied by a monitor who explains the facilities and serves as a guide for the different educational activities that are carried out along the tour: environmental classroom, “Maresme Circular Immersive Experience” with Virtual Reality glasses.
A group of a maximum of 45 pupils (divided into 3 subgroups) can take part in the visit at the same time and, if necessary, another group, also with a maximum of 45 pupils, can enter half an hour later.
With regard to didactic workshops, there are four types of workshop depending on the age of the pupils:
- “Twinkle and Waste”. Aimed at pupils in the initial cycle and middle cycle of primary education. Lasting 1 hour 30 minutes, it is designed as an activity to be carried out prior to the visit to the Centre, and is a workshop to learn about the concept of waste as a resource and how waste is separated so that it can be recycled.
- “With Energy!” Aimed at pupils in the upper cycle of primary education and the first cycle of compulsory secondary education. Lasting 1 hour 30 minutes, it is designed as an activity to be carried out prior to the visit to the Centre and can be done in English. It is a workshop that looks at the concept of energy and aims for students to learn about the different forms of energy production at the Maresme Integral Centre for Waste Recovery.
- “The Sustainable City”. Aimed at students in the second cycle of compulsory secondary education, A-level, Vocational Training and Adults. It lasts 1 hour 30 minutes and is designed as an activity to be carried out prior to the visit to the centre. It is a group board game, in role-playing format, designed to familiarise students with the concept of sustainable management at a municipal level.
- “Let’s learn to Ecodesign“. Aimed at students in the second cycle of ESO, Baccalaureate and Training Cycles. It lasts 1 hour 30 minutes and is proposed as an activity to be carried out prior to the visit to the Centre. It is a workshop that works on the concepts of Circular Economy, the life cycle of a product and Ecodesign. Its aim is for participants to understand the concept of the life cycle of products and how to reduce the associated environmental impacts, thinking about them from the early stages of design.
Schools can choose to only visit the facilities, or do the didactic workshop one day and the visit another. In this case, we recommend doing the workshop first and then the visit, but this is optional.
There is also the possibility of taking a virtual tour of the Centre, the new on-line activity developed as a result of the extraordinary security measures that have had to be taken due to COVID19. The activity is aimed at primary school students as well as ESO and baccalaureate students.
In addition, as a complement to the virtual visit, and from 2nd cycle of Secondary Education onwards, we offer the possibility of a subsequent virtual meeting with an expert from the Consortium in order to resolve any doubts and questions that may arise after the session.
There are three types of virtual visit:
- Projection in the classroom and on-line connection with our educator.
- Projection on the students’ computers (1 student per computer) and on-line connection with our educator.
- Our educator travels to the school and the projection takes place in the classroom.
All the activities are free of charge and in order to make a reservation, an application form must be filled in.
Summary of possible activities for schools:
- On-site visit.
- Didactic workshop + classroom visit.
- Virtual visit to the Centre in three formats:
- Projection in the classroom and on-line connection with our educator.
- Projection on pupils’ computers (1 pupil per computer) and on-line connection with our educator.
- Our educator travels to the school and the projection takes place in the classroom.
- Didactic workshop + virtual visit.
- Didactic workshop (we recommend doing the on-site visit afterwards).
