Name
Water, the environment and us
Topic
Environmental education
Learning time
6 hours
Designed time
5 hours
Size of class
20
Description
Students are called to explore the significance of water in our life, learn more about its circle and adopt a more environment friendly attitude
Aims
Get the students involved in protecting the environment and taking action for ecological problems of the area they live in.
Outcomes
Identify, Describe reasons for, Produce, Show awareness of
Editor
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Introduction
65 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    20
    20
    0
    At first the students watch a few videos relevant to the issue of water and its pollution as well as how water affects our lives. Then they are called to answer a short quiz created by the teacher in Socrative and get immediate feedback.
  • Discuss
    20
    25
    0
    The students discuss what they have just watched and then collaboratively create a mind-map using popplet in order to pinpoit the issues that have risen and the students would like to investigate.
  • Collaborate
    25
    4
    0
    The teacher explains the team up tool and with its help the students form groups. Each member of each group takes up a role and a responsibility.Then the groups take up on a sub-theme with which they will work with.
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Investigation
65 minutes)
  • Investigate
    15
    4
    0
    Using the school library, the internet or other sources, the groups start to look for information relevant to their theme of research. They use popplet to create a mind map of all the information they find most important and then they use teamup to give feedback to the teacher and to their peers.
  • Investigate
    20
    20
    0
    The class is visiting the nearby river Asopos, which is polluted by the surrounding industry and they are called to find all obvious signs of pollution and note them down in a worksheet created in Socrative. At the same time they are asked to take pictures or videos which will later be used for their final assignment.
  • Produce
    15
    20
    0
    Once the class returns to the classroom, they import their findings to a database using popplet and then see the final result in the interaction board.
  • Discuss
    15
    4
    0
    The students discuss in their groups and try to find solutions as to what has to be done in order for the continuous pollution of the river is stopped. They then upload their views to the ....and once the same thoughts are deleted, a list of all the given solutions is presented to the classroom.
Notes:
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50 minutes)
  • Practice
    20
    20
    0
    Students prepare an interview for an employee of the biological control dpt of a local industry in regards to the measures the industry is taking in order to prevent water pollution. They use the sticky-moose app in order to write down their questions and then vote on the most relevant ones. A questionnaire is build then with these questions using Socrative.
  • Read Watch Listen
    15
    20
    0
    A video conference is arranged so that the students can take the interview. The whole interview is recorded and then each group takes a part of it and writes down the answers.
  • Discuss
    15
    20
    0
    A discussion is taking place in the classroom to determine if the measures the employee stated where enough and the students are asked to add what they think the industries should do. They also have to consider what is the role of the whole community and what are we as citizens supposed to do in order to keep the environment clean.
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Present
120 minutes)
  • Practice
    20
    20
    0
    All together now the students using the powerleague tool prepare a vote with the ideas they came up about what needs to be done to protect the waters of Asopos. The students of the entire school are asked to participate and after a few days the results are presented to the classroom and a discussion takes place about the final results.
  • Collaborate
    40
    4
    0
    Each group is called to produce a short video (using moviemaker , a presentation ( using powerpoint), a poster (using glogster) or an animated story (using vimeo) with a message regarding our environmental behavior so as the water resources don't get dirty and less . Their products will be published to the school's web page and the posters will decorate the schools corridors. While doing that, they use team up to give feedback to the teacher and to their peers!
  • Produce
    60
    0
    Students are asked to write a short theatrical scene with emfasis to the water pollution. Then a group focuses on finding the accompaning music, another typing and distributing the lines to the "actors" , another deals with the scene decoration and the last team acts as the director and is responcible of the lights. The play is then presented to the school and the community.
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