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• Subjects:

• Cross-curricular (Maths, Science, ICT, languages,..)

• Syllabus contents:

• Statistics, Functions, Energy, Ecology

• Number of students:

• 25-30

• Age:

• 15

• Duration:

• 1 month

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Objectives of the project:

learning to interprete the energy bills

being able to compare among different energy sources

Developing responsible energy consumption habits

by means of:

gathering real energy consumption data (at home)

comparing the cost of the different domestic energy sources

finding out whether there are equations which model the energy consumption

identifying the energy consumption of the differentelectrical equipmentat home, and the standby consumption

after asking partners about climate, amount of daylight, lifestyle, formulating hypotheses on their estimated domestic energy consumption

verifying the stated hypotheses

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What for?

To deal with a real problem, significant to the community, about which students care

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What? Contents, skills, habits

Go through the curriculum and identify where a project fits

Choose two or three curricular items to focus on

Assessment

Learning skills, collaboration skills, critical thinking, knowledge acquisition

Set up clear criteria to measure achievements

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What for?

Energy is a key factor in domestic economy but we dont always understand its implications well enough

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What?

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Contents

• • Power units

• • Percentages

• • Statistics

• • Functions

• • Everyday life Maths

• • Ecology awareness

Skills

• • Teamwork

• • Formulating and testing hypothesis

• • Interpreting, comparing and relating real data

• • Using ICT in a variety of tasks

• • Capacity to overcome difficulties and reorient work

• • Communicating in own and foreign language

Habits

• • Curiosity and Initiative

• • Self-confidence

• • Self-awareness of own skills and things to improve

• • Perseverance

• • Critical thinking

• • Commitment to the community

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Short

Real

Meaningful

Motivating

It must answer the question What for? in every stage of the project

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Energy is money. How can we save both at home?

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What will be assessed in early, middle and late stages?

What criteria will be considered?

What tools will be used?

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Early stages

• • Initiative

• • Teamwork contributions

• • Quality of searched info

• • Ability to predict and formulate hypotesis

Middle stages

• • Decision-making after checking hypotheses

• • Ability to overcome difficulties and reorient work

• • Use of appropriate language to communicate (vocabulary, graphics,..)

• • Ability to communicate in a foreign language (if necessary)

• • Use of ICT to help solve the main question

• • Giving reasonable answers to questions arising

Final stage

• • Fulfillment of the task (answer to the driving question)

• • Quality and originality of products

• • Presentation of results

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What do your students need to know?

Things they already know

Things to be learnt before getting started

Things to learn during the project

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Already known

• • Basic statistics

• • Linear functions

• • Info search resources (Internet, library,..)

• • Basic ICT: spreadsheet, email, chat, forum,

• • Level of foreign language enabling communication

Before getting started

• • How to read a bill

• • Suggestions on teamwork: making task lists, assigning roles, distributing tasks, project diary,

• • Joint reflection on assessment

During the project

• • Comparison among different kind of energy resources

• • Basic statistical data processing

• • ICT tools that seem to be useful as one goes along

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Set up a concrete series of milestones to fine tune the project

Be flexible

Assess, rethink, refine

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Milestones:

Bring real bills to class: electricity, gas,. Interprete them. Look for equations which fit the costs. Learn about power units

Compare the costs of the different energy sources and heating systems, as well as of the different electrical appliances

Compare data (in groups), measuring both the pros and cons

Draw first conclusions:

• Factors affecting the domestic energy consumption: kind of house, orientation, number of people living, thermal isolation, peak hours,

• Which system would you choose?present results (tables, graphics, spreadsheets, lists,)

Measuring progress. Tuning

Communicate with partners (chat, videoconference, forums) in order to know what their energy consumption determining factors are

Formulate hypotheses about their partners monthly energy expenses

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Verify the hypotheses with partners (chat, etc)

Explain possible differences between the hypotheses and the real data

Measuring progress. Tuning

Show final products (written report, model, list of energy saving measures, video,)

Draw conclusions:

• Which steps can we take to save energy and money?

Measuring results

Evaluate the project:

• What are the benefits for us and the community?

• Things I would change/improve

Project epilogue:apply energy saving measures at home and checktheir efficiency in money saving after acouple of months

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Address different learning needs:

SEN students

At-risk students

Gifted students

Variety of learning styles

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Evaluating the whole project:

Class discussion

Reports

Individual / group evaluation

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Class discussion on the project. Fishbowl.

Student reports: logs, wiki, polls, personal reflections in blogs

Group /Individual evaluations

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