As part of the theme of their school project “Man and Nature” in Aubrac (and elsewhere…), as every year, at Saint-Matthieu college, the 4th graders worked on an EPI (Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Education ) around the theme of coal.
And who says coal in SVT (Sciences and Life of the Earth), says minors and therefore analysis of the novel Germinal of Zola in French, without forgetting for the course of history the study of the industrial revolution which upset the XIXth century.
This is why our day miners recently went to Aubin to visit the mining museum in the morning, rich in more or less unusual objects, history(s) and anecdotes. Tour skillfully orchestrated by the favorite and appointed guide, Renée, whose professionalism, attentiveness, sense of sharing and benevolence delighted these young people passionate about this environment so far from theirs, rather focused on agriculture and yet, so close when they remember the story of their ancestors who came to the capital at the beginning of the century with so little in their pocket but so much courage that even climbing buildings with bags of coal on their backs did not frighten them… Yes, respect to those bougnats of yesterday! At noon, the students unpacked their lighters (miners’ picnic!) and went to the Découverte site in Decazeville: an open-pit mine closed in 2001 and now rehabilitated into a space where greenery has resumed. his rights…
It’s not easy to imagine the ballet of giant machines, backhoe loaders and other bulldozers which, less than thirty years ago, were still parading in this gaping amphitheater of darkness and dust!
In the afternoon, detour to Livinhac where the college students, like real geologists, searched along the Lot for some fossils encrusted on fallen stones from the different strata observed. SVT courses on site to understand all the riches offered by our blue planet but, alas, today too often impacted by human greed, the mother of all evils towards our dear Mother Earth…
2023-04-23 18:26:21
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