2014 Environmental issues
Marie-Hélène Fasquel & Keisha Lew EVO workshop eperfect ebook 02/02/2014
Environmental issues outline of the first chapter Mission 1 Let’s brainstorm! Brainstorm in the method of your choosing. Create a framework then flesh it out with possible activities, sections, headers, images, charts, word banks, readings, listening exercises, etc. that you'd like to include. What I’d like to include flipped classroom approach (as I’m currently experimenting it. A link to my content curation for those who do not know about it: http://www.scoop.it/t/classe-inversee-experimentation-recherches and it could be very useful to teachers as this is quite new in ESL teaching in France) gamification approach (a blend of both approaches which are completely complementary, and I’m involved in a 7-country Comenius project about games so I’d love to include games in the etexbook) (http://www.scoop.it/t/games-learning-and-teaching ) interactive activities (such as Popplets to fill in, Quizzes prepared online (on Quizlet, etc)... links: http://popplet.com/ http://quizlet.com/ One Quiz I made with quizlet – http://quizlet.com/35298650/theenvironment-flash-cards/ We would need to use English only so we could use the words and their synonyms or short definitions or antonyms. A lot of videos and audios and English natives discussions. It would be awesome if the natives of this group could accept to record their voice on a VoiceThread or Voxopop and take part in our book :) It would be fabulous if some of their students (15+) could also do it !:) Links: http://voicethread.com/ http://www.voxopop.com/ a Padlet-type activity to have the teachers or / and students interact with us / eachother or a blog where they could comment and ask questions. lots of articles from different sources (Time for kids….) http://www.timeforkids.com/ Possible topic: global warming
Possible readings: http://www.timeforkids.com/news/going-extremes/41921 (+++) http://www.timeforkids.com/news/silent-hurricane-season/102051 http://www.timeforkids.com/news/young-voices/36206 (+++) http://www.timeforkids.com/news/polar-bears-peril/86701 (+++)
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http://www.timeforkids.com/news/president%E2%80%99s-climateplan/97006 (+++) http://www.timeforkids.com/news/green-tips/10961 (+++) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming (accompanied by a webquest to start the study) http://environment.about.com/od/globalwarming/u/globalwarming.htm (same here, second link to go with our webquest) http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/globalwarming/gw-effects/ (effects of global warming → starting with a brainstorm to start from what students know and then present it as link 3 for our webquest) http://www.globalissues.org/issue/178/climate-change-and-globalwarming (I would like students to work in groups and to have different articles: 1 for each group and then exchange / ask each other questions… in order to build their knowledge and interact in class → this could be the 1st of the 4 articles) http://climate.nasa.gov/effects (text 2) http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/ (text 3) http://www.nrdc.org/energy/default.asp (text 4) http://www.desmogblog.com/global-warming-information-center (for the webquest too) http://www.arkive.org/climate-change/ http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/aboutcc/how_cc_works/
Possible pictures http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/weatherandclimatechange/resour cebank/images.asp http://www.flickr.com/photos/d-b/393457154/
Possible charts http://weather.about.com/od/imagegallery/ig/Global-Warming-ImagesGraphs.--5K/Sources-of-Greenhouse-Gases-.htm http://weather.about.com/od/imagegallery/ig/Global-Warming-ImagesGraphs.--5K/Global-Temperatures-Are-Rising.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Dragons_flight/Images
Possible videos: I would like to study excerpts from An inconvenient Truth, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnjx6KETmi4 (An Inconvenient Truth, trailer) http://www.ted.com/talks/al_gore_on_averting_climate_crisis.html http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2826045209/ (the day after tomorrow trailer. no words but a lot to have our students discuss.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJAbATJCugs (3’04, National Geographic) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcVwLrAavyA (1h27’ - Discovery Channel)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a51mWYhVmek (BBC, the truth about climate change, part 1, 58’) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTgAiyo0xwY (part 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvI66Xaj9-o (2012 trailer)
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