Changing our world

Our planet Earth is sick. Pollution, abusive energy consumption, and deforestation are all issues that are making the temperature of the planet go up every day. Many animals and living beings are suffering a lot. We will suffer too if we do not take action. We have the opportunity to make people aware about problems that are affecting our planet and our surrounding area too. We can do it!

Imagine you were member of an ecological organization. Collect evidence of the problems that are affecting our surrounding area, publish your work in a blog and change our immediate world. 

Lesson 1

1. Visit this link and listen to the video. http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/short-stories/planet-earth.

2. In your teams, discuss the following questions with your team. You can use your talking chips when you want to speak.

• Why are trees important for us? 
• Why do we cut trees?
• How do we pollute the ocean?
• What can we do to reduce pollution in our village?
• Why are rivers polluted?

3. Quiz quiz trade: follow the instructions.

4. Trivia quiz: Now, it’s your turn. In pairs, design 3 multiple choice questions about pollution in order to create a trivia quiz about pollution for students in 3th grade. You can use your cheat sheets to get ideas.

Lesson 2.

1. Recycling word scramble. Visit this webpage and find the unscramble words. http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/quizzes/wordscrambles/recycling.html

2. You choose. Watch a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea5eBtEmSKA), listen to a song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDL3xOEjAe8 or visit this webpage:  http://www.recycling-guide.org.uk/rrr.html.

3. Complete the think chart about what you have seen or listened to. 

4. Discuss these questions in your cooperative learning teams. Use your talking chips when you want to talk.

• What does recycling mean?
• How can we do to recycle at home and at school?
• Why should we recycle?
• What type of materials can we recycle?

4. All write round coaching: In pairs, list possible action we can do at home or at school.  One of you thinks and speaks and the other listens and writes or draws. If you can’t think of anything else you look at the cheat sheet that is on your desk and read one of the ideas to your partner.

5. Put all class ideas together as plans for future actions. Visit https://padlet.com to share their ideas.

Lesson 3

1. Look at the TV advertisement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MTTDCiQ_W4 and complete the think chart.

2. Share their findings with your team members. 

3. With your team make a list of recycled products and a list of songs and design a TV advertisement with a song and a script.

Lesson 4

1. Think, Pair, Share. First, think about the question, then, discuss your thoughts with your shoulder partner and finally, share your discussion with the whole class.

Questions:

• What is water?
• What does water come from?
• Where do we find water?
• Who uses water?
• Where is water stored?

 2. Look at the pictures in the Interactive Whiteboard and discuss these questions in your teams.

• How do we use water?
• Do we use water responsibly? Why?
• Is it fair to waste water? Why?

3. Now, we are going to walk around the school and identify and record on a sheet, the ways water is used in the school, for example, at drink taps, in toilets, in the staff room…you can take photos with your tablets.

4. In class, categorize the various ways water is used. When is water used responsibly? When is water wasted? Use https://padlet.com to share their answers. 

5. Now, comment with your partners what you have learned from this activity and write down goals about how you can save water at school. For example, we must turn the tap off in the Art room.

Lesson 5

1. Select at least one value: fair go, honesty, respect, responsibility…Then, use their goals to create a poster using https://www.glogster.com/ , a mind map using www.mindomo.com, a brochure, a song, a power point presentation etc. in order to promote responsibility water usage in our school. You can use the photos you took on their walk around the school. What you do will be displayed around the school.

Lesson 6

1. Scavenger Hunt about endangered animals in Aragón. In pairs, first, read the descriptions of the animals, guess the animals you have to look for and find the flashcards to discover the right answers.

2. In pairs, first, choose one endangered animal of our region, then, look for information in the Internet, leaflets, encyclopedias, magazines…and complete a think chart You can look for information about where it lives, why it is endangered…

3. Prepare a short presentation about that animal. You can support it with some visual aids.

Lesson 7 & 8

1. Share their presentation to your classmates.

2. In your teams make a plan to collect all the evidence of the problems which surround our area. You could make a video, a poster, a collage, big book of kindness, a presentation, ...

3. Write or draw your general idea and plan on a piece of paper.

4. Walk around the class looking at team ideas. Give concrete suggestions for improvement and say what you like about your classmates’ ideas and plans.

Lesson 9

 1. PUBLISH YOUR WORK: Create a blog using https://www.blogger.com/ , upload your productions and write a post. 

Congratulations for having finished this webquest. I’m sure you now understand much better the impact that all of us have on our world.