Environmental issues outline

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/

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Possible pictures  http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/weatherandclimatechange/resour cebank/images.asp  http://www.flickr.com/photos/d-b/393457154/

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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

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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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