Pollution

Introduction

Introduction

This Webquest is designed to assist students in developing a better understanding of pollution. Through this webquest, students will be able to assess the causes, effects and solutions to the problem of pollution.

 

Pollution can destroy the environment and cause devastating effects to humans, animals and wildlife. As the years progress and technology increases we hope to mitigate the problem of pollution and with increased awareness it is believed that one day the issue of pollution will be eradicated. Otherwise, our world as we know it will be significantly affected and our wellbeing will be in jeopardy.

Task

Task

You have been employed to be a Public Relations Advisor at the Negril Area Environmental Protection Trust (NEPT). Your new job requires that you visits schools informing them about the causes, effects and solutions to pollution. Your task is to create a presentation that you will use to demonstrate to students how to protect the environment from pollution and help them to become environmentalists in their communities, so as to ensure sustainability.

You will use the following questions to guide you in creating your presentation:

Questions:

  1. What is pollution?
  2.  List the three main types of pollution.
  3.  What are some of the causes of pollution?
  4.  What are some preventative measures that can reduce pollution?

 

 

 

Process

Students will be divided in pairs, where they will work with a partner to create a presentation for students at the secondary level. The aim of the presentation is to educate students on pollution and how it affects the environment.

Your presentation will be based upon the four questions that was listed in the task section. Please ensure that you try to make your presentation very interesting and engaging. Also be sure to add factual information and supporting evidences to your presentation. 

You may use one of the following method to do your presentation:

  1. Power-point presentation
  2. Informative videos along with written scripts

To complete the task assigned, you may use the following links as a guide to help you and your partner gather additional information:

Question 1: What is Pollution?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/pollution/

Question 2: What are the three main types of pollution?

  • Land Pollution

https://www.ducksters.com/science/environment/land_pollution.php

  • Air Pollution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/air-pollution-everything-you-need-know

  • Water Pollution

https://wwf.panda.org/discover/knowledge_hub/teacher_resources/webfieldtrips/water_pollution/

https://www.britannica.com/science/water-pollution

Question 3: What are some of the causes of pollution?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128190012000218

Question 4: What are some preventative measures or solutions to reducing pollution?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128190012000218

https://www.epd.gov.hk/epd/english/greenproperty/poll_pro/poll_pro_rec.html

At the end of this exploration, you will now have adequate information to develop your presentation using the same sequence as how the questions are laid out in the task.

Evaluation

Presentation Rubric
Criteria

Developing

2

Accomplished

3

Excellent

5

 Score
Completion of Task

Minimal details and organization,

1 - 2 Questions completed

All questions answered correctly but moderate attention

paid to details and organization.

 All questions answered correctly, exemplary attention to details and organization.  
Use of Facts Incorrect information presented for some aspects of the presentation, no real life scenarios was included Most information presented were based on interesting facts, minimal real life scenarios presented Presentation is based on Factual information and real life scenarios is presented   
Presentation lacks basic information and was somewhat interesting/engaging Complete presentation was good, evidence of knowledge of topic and was engaging  Exceeds expectation, exemplary knowledge of topic and entire presentation was engaging and interesting  

Use of Language/

Grammar

 more than 5 grammatical errors 1 - 5 grammatical errors no grammatical errors  

   

 

Conclusion

Congrats!

You are now at the end of your Quest and by now you should have learnt all there is to know about pollution.

You will now complete your task by creating your presentation. Be sure to double check you work before presenting, ensuring no questions are left unanswered, so that you can maximize your chances of getting full marks. 

Go and encourage other students to become environmentalists in their communities working towards protecting planet earth from further pollution.

Together we can reduce pollution. It begins with you!

 

Credits

Teacher Page

This webquest was created by Nickola Foster, Church Teachers' College:Mandeville

 

The webquest is geared towards students who are studying science. It gives details particularly  on environmental science. This site can be used to give additional or supplementary information on the pollution unit. However, there are some background information students should know under Natural Resources

  1. Renewable Resources
  2. Nonrenewable resources
  3. Sustainable Development

This webquest promotes independent learning and allow students to develop researching skills. This particular webquest was designed to assist students in understanding what is pollution, the causes, the effects and ways in which we can reduce pollution in our environment.

The students' task is to do a presentation in the form of a powerpoint or informative video. They should provide information to help students better understand the issue of pollution. It is expected that through this form of exploration, the students will become more knowledgeable of the topic. Prior to the presentation, students will be shown how to develop a simple powerpoint and how to organize their video clips for the video presentation.

In order to assess students, a rubric was created with the different criteria.