Help+our+planet!

**__Project :__** Help our planet!

**Aim :** Raise awareness on environmental issues and what should be done to prevent them or lessen their consequences.

**Final outcome :** Students wil create a group presentation on an environmental problem, its causes, consequences and possible solutions.

**Age group :** 5th Year.Primary Education.Argentina.

**Context : **
 * School contents, nature, oceans and environmental care.
 * Literary and popular contexts : use of poems, songs, multimedia technology.


 * Objectives : **
 * Stimulate the use of English as a means of acquiring and sharing knowledge on global issues, in this particular case about environmental problems.
 * Raise awareness of our role and responsibilities as Global Citizens to take care of the planet we live in.
 * Use technology and netbooks as a tool to gather information and use it reflexively through different programs and internet pages.(Wikis).
 * Foster communication and cooperative work, aiming at achieving reflective and critical thinking skills.


 * Time : **10 classes approximately.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Tasks : **

__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1. Holiday places. __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Ask students: "Where do you usually go on holidays? - Why do you go there? - What's the weather like there? - What activities can you do there? - What kind of natural places can you see there?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In groups, students work with the answers to the questions and they provide an outcome using either [|A c-map :] or [|a wordle]

__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2. Colours of the wind. __

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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Ask students : "Where is Pocahontas from? - Where is John Smith from? - Is he on holidays? - Why is he in the <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">forest? - What does Pocahontas try to show him?" <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">"Do you try to see nature when you go on holidays?" __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">3.The real world. __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Do you really see what is going on with our wold today? - Watch this video, analyse it and write its message. media type="youtube" key="XAi3VTSdTxU" height="408" width="546" align="center"

<span style="color: #f5be7f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Terrible things are happening now, but if we work together, we can help heal Nature and ourselves.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">When we go on holidays, we generally want to see ... . || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">...but we usually see ... . ||
 * [[image:globalenglish101/clean_beach.jpg width="362" height="230" align="center" caption="clean sand, crystal clear water."]] || [[image:globalenglish101/dirty-beach.jpg width="337" height="223" align="center" caption="dirty water,rubbish all over the place."]] ||

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Ask students to upload more examples in the group wiki, then encourage them to add captions to each picture.

__<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">4. Environmental problems. __ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">"What do the pictures on the right column stand for? - Which of these problems are caused by men? - How? - <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In different groups, students choose an environmental problem and follow this guide, uploading their work to the group wiki.

**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We cause ( water pollution ) when ... **







<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">...the consequences are ...





<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">...we should...





__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5. Group presentation. __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Each group uses the material already worked with to create a Power Point presentation,with songs and videos, or a [|Prezi] presentation to share with the other groups or years.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Bibliography. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Material from the course " Using netbooks in Primary School" . CIE Pergamino,Argentina.2011.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|www.awarenwssideas.com] : amazing visual material.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">TACCLE. Recursos Didàcticos para la Creaciòn de Contenidos para Entornos de Aprendizaje. Manual de Aula de e-learning para docentes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Web 2.0 Literacy Tools. Transforming Teaching and Learning. Naomi Harm.