British Council Project: Connecting Classrooms

Climate Change: “How Can We help?”

Escuela 3 DE 15 “República de Costa Rica”, GCBA

Teacher: Miss Iberia J. Denegri.

October 2012

Characteristics of the project: Duration, methodology, ways to share our work.

Planning of the six weeks ahead.

Evaluation.

Final Outcome.

Brief introduction to the topic: Climate Change, How Can We Help?

Contents of the presentation:

Six-weeks project: It starts on Oct 19th and finishes on November 29th.

Collaborative work .

Several tasks during each week.

Student’s work shared on the Project Space of the British Council.

In the Project Space will participate many countries and we’ll be in touch with schools from all around the world!!

Characteristics of the Project

Previously, the teacher took a course on-line to plan the weeks ahead.

Planning of the six weeks

* The teacher chose the images, videos, activities, exercises and the final product the class will be doing.

Teacher’s Farewell of the course (Popplet App.)

1) Teacher Assessment through a rubric http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=ShowRubric&rubric_id=2233800&

Types of Evaluation

Students will be assessed in: 1) Work done in class, 2) Use of Class Time, 3) Developing of Questions, 4) Technologicall Skills, 5) Creativity and 6) Respect for others.

* 2) Peer Correction: You will work in pairs to evaluate your partner about how he worked in class, time managment, use of the computer and behaviour.

The final outcome of the project will be a video to be produced on Windows Movie Maker. The video will be about the causes and consequences of Climate Change and the conclusions of “How Can We Help?”

Final Outcome

You can start thinking about which song you would like to include on the video and also reflect if it is the best for our final product!

* Three secretaries will be appointed to help to write down notes and help to remember all the things that have to be included in the final product.

Introduction to Climate ChangeWhat do see in these pics? How

are this pictures connected?

Let’s discuss some ideas about climate change and what you know about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8Ek3v1RBEU&feature=fvwrel

Now we are going to watch two videos on the topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4gLIXnlw2I&NR=1&feature=endscreen

Let’s talk about how can we help. What can we do to save the planet?

1st task of the project:You will create a Pinterest board and pin the images you think are important to help to save the

world.

While we are working we are going to listen to this song, which is related to Climate Change and our planet. Do you know who the singer is?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwrel&NR=1&v=wtoeZ9Nkeqk

I hope we all enjoy and learn during this project!!