Sharing the Planet Summative Task

Sharing The Planet - Summative Assessment Task

Agenda: 14th April

14th April 2016

Tomorrow is day 1

Homework:
-Blogging challenge
-Creative Writing
-Weekly Quiz
-FINISH "Nature is speaking" Video
-FOCUS PREP


Extra for experts
-TED-ED for the week.
-Chapter 5 of the Outsiders

Notices:

Reminders:

TECH

Signed:

Water filtration

Key questions

1 what is the goal of the challenge 

2 What constraints are there? 

3 How will you know if you have been successful 

Camp Aongatete

Clothing for Camp

Look at a variety of clothing, group decide if it is good/bad or necessary to take. 

Cotton or Polyester: 

• (t-shirt, hat, jeans, singlet, shirt)
• fine if dry, lethal if wet – accelerates heat loss, leading to hypothermia
• jeans inappropriate in bush, okay in lodge

Wool, Merino 

• (socks, jumper, hat, singlet, shirt) 
• excellent when wet - retains warmth
• can be bulky – (newer merino garments not bulky but expensive)

Polyprop/thermals

• (thermal longjohns, short or long-sleeved tops, socks, hats) 
• excellent when wet – dries quickly
• light, thin - easily carried
• thin layers allow for temperature control
• longjohns can be worn under shorts in cooler weather/ in river

Polar Fleece (vest, jumper, jacket, pants)

• excellent when wet – retains warmth & dries quickly

Rain jacket

• One that holds out water if put under a tap

Create a best dressed & worst dressed person.
Write or draw onto body outline articles of clothing that are needed for walking in the bush.

Camp Aongatete

Aongatete Camp 2016 

Who needs to know?

Questions / Key Points raised from video clip

Tell Someone (Where you are going)

If something went wrong:
- How would anyone know?
- How long would you have to wait?

Tell someone you trust:
- Your time and date of departure and return
- Your contact details
- Your car registration and where you’ve parked
- Your route, including how you are getting to and from the track
- The huts you plan to use
- Your group’s details
- The equipment you’re taking

And tell your contact as soon as you arrive home safely.

Outdoors Intentions for Land-based Activities

SAFETY IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. TELL SOMEONE YOUR PLANS…

…IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE.

Although most trips into the outdoors go without a hitch, you need to be fully prepared so that if the unexpected happens there are appropriate measures in place to recognise there is a problem, alert the appropriate authorities and, if necessary, enable rescuers to find you quickly.

The New Zealand Outdoors Intentions process (endorsed by New Zealand's search and rescue agencies) provides 3 simple options which enable you to 'tell someone' all the details about your land-based trip into the outdoors.

Scenarios at camp:

- How could we apply this knowledge to going on camp at Aongatete?

- Would you expect to complete a form for each walk we take to the river?

- What could be alternatives to completing forms?

- What might happen if you suddenly realised that you needed to go to the toilet just before leaving on a bush walk. Do you quietly race off, hoping you’ll be back before the group leaves?

Literacy - Water Quickwrite

STP - Quickwrite

Fresh water scarcity: An introduction to the problem - Christiana Z. Peppard

Fresh water is essential for life -- and there's not nearly enough of it for the world right now. Why is that, and what could we do? Christiana Z. Peppard lays out the big questions of our global water problem. And no, shorter showers are not the answer.

FOCUS PREP

Te Aroha Focus Prep

Te Aroha Focus = Thursday 5th May (Term 2 Week 1)

Our Storyline = Captain Planet

Scroll through (right hand side) and watch an episode of Captain Planet by clicking on the YouTube link below.

Captain Planet - Complete Series

What is the narrative structure of an episode?
Who are the main characters?
How could this relate to Sharing The Planet?

Task: Work as a small group (7's) to create a skit that involves the misuse of Earth's resources
Nominate a scribe who will jot down your script. This will need to be shared with everyone so that you can practice over the holidays.

Success Criteria! - What makes an effective Focus? i.e. humour, a clear message, committment

Camp: Is there a doctor in the tent?

• Camp pre: Is There A Doctor in the Tent?

Embed this image to your blog:



<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/a/berkley.school.nz/file/d/0B6Chw8PLQ8ZjVDV0SkVTUE5UUm8/preview" width="640" height="480"></iframe>

Read through it and answer the following questions underneath it:

1. SEE: Summarise each section under the headings 
Success Criteria:
- Identify (Underline) Key words in each sentence.
-Put these words into your own sentences. (Try get to the main point and use compound and complex sentences)
2. THINK: What do you think is the most helpful piece of information on this to someone who is going on camp? (Connection to camp)
3. THINK: What was something you have learnt from this?
4. WONDER: Do you have any questions that has come from this reading?
4. So what?: How is this relevant to camp?
4. So what?: How is this relevant to our current transdisciplinary theme? (Sharing the Planet)

Add three labels to this post: Sharing the Planet, Camp, Reading

Agenda: 11th April

11th April 2016

Tomorrow is day 4

Homework:
-Blogging challenge
-Creative Writing
-Weekly Quiz
-FINISH "Nature is speaking" Video
-Brainstorm some focus ideas


Extra for experts
-TED-ED for the week.
-Chapter 5 of the Outsiders

Notices:

Reminders:
Teaming

Science Fair meeting block 3.

Signed:

The upside down Fire

Room 13 - ICT

Room 13 (ICT) - Exploring 'Sharing The Planet'

Room 13 (ICT) - Embed a video that relates to STP

Find a clip (Youtube) that speaks to you about our UOI - Sharing The Planet

Embed it into a post (Remember 650x450 in size)

Write a reflection as to how it reflects / explains your understanding of this UOI (Connection)

Explain how this may be used in our classroom (Quick Write etc)

Comment on at least 3 other posts from your classmates!

Extenison:

Find an article using Kiwi Kids News that relates to our CI (Hint: use the "Search site" in the top right hand corner - remember to use everything that you have been learning about in TD Skills with Ms Alloway)

Screenshot part of the article and embed this image in a post - link the image to the URL of the article.

Write a reflection as to how this article relates to our CI

Room 13 - Nature is speaking

Room 13 (ICT) - Nature Is Speaking - Youtube Video Editor

1. Sign in to Youtube using your gmail

2. Watch the tutorial below

TED-Ed Term 1 Week 11

TED-Ed - Term 1 Week 11

Do the green thing - Andy Hobsbawm

Andy Hobsbawm shares a fresh ad campaign about going green -- and some of the fringe benefits.

1. According to Hobsbawm, great creativity ____________.

2. What puts slogans on our t-shirts and phrases on our lips?

3. In the video initiative dothegreenthing.com, what is the decision the main character makes that changes his life?

4. What kinds of things does the main character, Gusty, see in the video initiative dothegreenthing.com?

5. What is the purpose of this Talk?

6. How can great creativity provoke us to think differently about climate change?

7. What consequences of climate change have you observed in your community?

8. What can you do in your daily life to make the world a little greener?

Agenda: 7th April

6th April 2016

Tomorrow is day 2

Homework:-
Refer to Mondays

Extra for experts

Notices:

Science Fair

Reminders:
Teaming

Signed:

Agenda: 8th April

8th April 2016

Monday is day 3

Homework:-
Finish draft of Nature is speaking (start publishing)
Finish UOI latest task (egg, chicken, Grain, Earth)

Notices:

SCIENCE FAIR NOTICE

Reminders:
TECH

Signed:

Sharing the Planet - UOI 2

Sharing The Planet - LOI1 - The Earth's Resources and their limited nature

The Egg and the Fork Activity - The Earth's Resources

•  Can you trace these two materials back to their source? Discuss as a group and record your responses in your book. Notes
•  Can you think of anything that you use that is not provided by the earth. 

Raw materials that we take from the earth to make into other things are known as natural resources. Manufactured resources are made from natural resources by undergoing some form of process. 

Energy, which is also a natural resource, is needed to change objects from the natural forms into the products we use.

Read the following information sheet and then complete the student worksheet below.

Answers

6th April 2016

Tomorrow is day 1

Homework:-
-Blogging challenge
-Creative Writing
-Parent comment
-Spanish worksheet
-Mrs Frogley's work
Weekly Quiz

Extra for experts
-TED-ED for the week.
-Chapter 4 of THE OUTSIDERS

Notices:

Reminders:
TECH

Signed:

Agenda 6th April

6th April 2016 Tomorrow is day 1 Homework:- -Blogging challenge -Creative Writing -Parent comment -Spanish worksheet -Mrs Frogley's work Weekly Quiz Extra for experts -TED-ED for the week. -Chapter 4 of THE OUTSIDERS Notices: Reminders: TECH Signed:

Agenda: 5th April

5th April 2016

Tomorrow is day 6

Homework:-
-Blogging challenge
-Creative Writing
-Parent comment
-Spanish worksheet
-Mrs Frogley's work
Weekly Quiz

Extra for experts
-TED-ED for the week.
-Chapter 4 of THE OUTSIDERS

Notices:

Reminders:
TECH

Signed:

Science

Today we worked through 4 stations. Below are photos showing what we investigated and got up to 

Writing - Sharing the planet

Writer's Workshop - Nature Is Speaking (Finding Out / Sorting Out)

Conservation International believe strongly in the power of visual storytelling to educate, inspire and affect change. CI's filmmakers traverse the globe, spotlighting the people, challenges and successful projects that our programs are pioneering.

Task: You are to craft, re-craft and present your own text (video) as a means of 'Taking Action'

Choose:

- Which force are you going to write about? ocean, trees, bees, etc

- Think about perspective! You are that force of nature! What characteristics does it have?

- Which language features will you choose to use?

- How can you make your text more powerful?

- Does your text suit the purpose? How can you be sure?

An example - Nature Is Speaking – Julia Roberts is Mother Nature

Some call me nature

Others' call me "Mother Nature"

I've been here for over 4.5 billion years

22,500 times longer than you

I don't really need people

But people need me

Yes, your future depends on me

When I thrive, you thrive

When I falter, you falter

Or worse, 

But I've been here for eons

I have fed species greater than you

And I have starved species greater than you

My oceans

My soil

My flowing streams

My forests

They all can take you

Or leave you

How you chose to live each day

Whether you regard or disregard me,

Doesn't really matter to me

One way

Or the other

Your actions will determine your fate

Not mine

I am nature

I will go on

I am prepared to evolve

Are you?

End Title: Nature doesn't need people... people need nature

Act: 

- Use iMovie to create your very own 'Nature is speaking' video

- Where are you going to source your images and sound? (Make connections here to the #16stubc focus for this week)

- How are you going to ensure that your voice is recorded clearly and no background noise is distracting?

- Share your completed video with Mr Cameron

Reflect:

- Use the following to complete a detailed reflection about your 'Action'

Find out more here: Lee Pace is Mountain

Find out more here: Reese Witherspoon is Home

Find out more here: Liam Neeson is Ice

Find out more here: Harrison Ford is The Ocean

Find out more here: Edward Norton is The Soil

Find out more here: Robert Redford is The Redwood

Find out more here: Kevin Spacey is The Rainforest

Find out more here: Penelope Cruz is Water

Find out more here: Ian Somerhalder is Coral Reef

Find out more here: Lupita Nyong'o is Flower

Sharing the Planet

STP LOI 2 - Personal choices impact the environment (Wonderopolis)

Key Questions: 

- Do human beings really have an impact on the natural areas they visit?

- How do the choices humans make impact the natural environment?

- What actions can benefit and/or harm the environment?

Have You Ever Wondered...

- Do you leave a trace?

- How do human activities impact the environment?

- What can you do to minimise your impact on the environment?

Task: Click the image below and then read the text - complete the wonder words and then test your knowledge by completing the comprehension task.

Making Connections - Write a statement / bullet point any connections you can make between the main concepts in this task and the CI and LOI's.

Agenda: 4th April

4th April 2016

Tomorrow is day 5

Homework:-
-Blogging challenge
-Creative Writing

Extra for experts
-TED-ED for the week.
-Chapter 4 of THE OUTSIDERS

Notices:

Reminders:
TECH

Signed:

Sharing the Planet

STP LOI 2 - Personal choices impact the environment (The Lorax)

1. As you re-watch The Lorax by Dr. Seuss, list the names of the producers and consumers shown in the movie.

2. What was the land of the Lorax like before the Once-ler arrived? Did it seem like someplace you'd like to live? What parts of your own environment would you be sad to see go?

3. What kind of person is the Once-ler? Why won't he listen to the Lorax? The Lorax says to the Once-ler, "You are crazy with greed." Why does the Lorax say that? Do you agree or disagree?

4. Why does the Lorax speak for the trees? Why is it important to speak up for others? Have you ever spoken up for someone else? Has someone else ever spoken up for you?

5. How does the Once-ler's Thneed business hurt the land of the Lorax? What happens to the Swomee-swans, the Brown Bar-ba-loots, and the Humming-fish? How could things have been different if the Once-ler listened to the Lorax?

6. What do you think the boy hearing the story will do with the Truffula seed that the Once-ler tosses to him? What would you do if you were the boy?

7. Do you think the Lorax and his friends will come back if new Truffula Trees grow? Where do you think they have been?

8. The Once-ler says, "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." What does the Once-ler mean? Can one person make a difference? Can you? What are some things you can do to better your own environment?

9. How does the Once-ler feel about what his Thneed business did to the Lorax and friends?

10. Dr. Seuss used bright colors on some pages of the book and dull colors on others. Did you notice this? Why do you think he did that?

11. Why is The Lorax called a cautionary tale?

Ted Ed Term 1 - Week 10

TED-Ed - Term 1 Week 10

How do solar panels work? - Richard Komp

The Earth intercepts a lot of solar power: 173,000 terawatts. That’s 10,000 times more power than the planet’s population uses. So is it possible that one day the world could be completely reliant on solar energy? Richard Komp examines how solar panels convert solar energy to electrical energy.

1. What is light?

2. What are the major physical barriers to using solar cells and modules?

3. What are the major social and political barriers to using solar energy?

4. What are most solar cells made from?

5. What is the carrier of the electric current from solar cells?

6. What from the Sun causes the solar cell to produce the electricity?

7. What creates the potential difference (voltage) in a solar cell?

8. How efficient are the normal commercial solar cells?

Student Blogging Challenge - Week 5

Student Blogging Challenge - Week 5 - Images & Sounds

Student Blogging Challenge - Week 5 - Images & Sounds

There is a lot to learn in this challenge so it will be running for a two week (fortnight) period. The next challenge will be posted on 17th April

Teachers: Here is a lot of information regarding images, creative commons and copyright which you can use with your students or to refresh yourself about what is acceptable or not on public blogs. Also one of our mentors in 2014, Maria, has put together some lists with great tools when using images and audio. The Edublogger also has a post on free image sources. Above the challenge blog header is a page containing a symbaloo with many tools to use on your blog – many relate to images.

Students and teachers please read this before doing the activities

This week’s activities are going to be fun but first there are some things you need to know so please read carefully.

I have been visiting many blogs over the last few weeks. Some students new to blogging have been writing some great posts while others who have been blogging for a bit longer have started adding videos and images to their posts.

Yes, this week we deal with using images, music and sounds in your posts.

But can’t I use any image, music or sound that is on the internet?

No, you must use creative commons or in some cases the fair use rule.

But where can I find these images, music and sounds? Can’t I use anything when I google an image?

No, your blog is public so you must use creative commons images, sounds, music and videos.

Sue Waters over at the teacher challenge has written a fantastic post about images, copyright and creative commons. I would suggest you all head over there to read the post. She explains about creative commons and the licences, attribution, how to find images for your blog and how to upload images to your blog. Most of this would be appropriate whether you are using Edublogs, blogger or any other blogging platform. This might be very wordy for some students, but Sue uses lots of images and how to do sections in her posts.

Other places to find information

- Head to the creative commons website.
- Check out the CC wiki to find out what is happening in your country. What are the different licenses used?
- Teachers check out the education section of creative commons.
- Youtube allows creative commons for videos.

Teachers: A fantastic guide to copyright, fair use and creative commons has been written by Ronnie Burt and I would suggest you read this to understand more about using images, music and video on your blogs. Also includes what might happen if you use an image etc incorrectly.

Larry Ferlazzo also has a great “Best List for images” that you might want to check out as well.

OK I want to use some legal creative commons images and music in my slideshow.Where can I go to get them?

Do you have compfight plugin for your blogging platform? Follow the instructions from Sue Waters’ post.

Maria, a mentor from 2014, created some lists of tools to use with images and audio.

Other places to get images and music:

You will need to work out how to get the attribution to put on your posts. Check Sue Waters’ post to get more help and more places for images. This post from Edublogs explains how to add media in all its forms to your blog posts or pages. If using blogger, check out the posts from this blog.

Images

Morguefile
Open ClipArt
Pics4learning

Make sure you check out the links under creative commons in the sidebar of the challenge blog.

Music and sound effects

Jamendo, CCMixter, post with 14 websites for music, post with 20+ websites for music, post with 55+ sites with sound effects

Now for the activities for this fortnight

Activity 1 - Watch this video about sharing work and write a post about what you learned. Include words such as attribution, share alike, licences and derivatives to show you understand what the video was about. Do some more research on the topic and perhaps create your own class video about using images, music and videos in class.

This video is the reaction of students in Mrs Yollis’ class when she mislabelled their artwork. How would you have felt?

Activity 2 - Check out this story using remix and fair use of video. What was interesting, positive or negative about it? Could you and your friends create a 20 second video using remix and fair use? Mrs Miller’s class left some comments on her blog about creative commons

Activity 3 - Find an image or piece of music. Add it to your post (with attribution) and write a poem relating to the image or music. Invite your readers to write their own poems. Here isFernando’s example, Samantha is confused

Activity 4 - Similar to activity 3. Find an interesting landscape image (include attribution). Write the beginning of a story relating to your image. Remember to include a conflict of some sort between your characters. Invite your readers to finish the story. How many different endings can you get? Which ending do you prefer? You might need to visit some other bloggers and invite them to finish your story. Remember to leave the URL of your post for them to click on.

Activity 5 - Write a sentence using just images – no words. You still need to include attribution for each image you have used.

Activity 6 - Find 5 images that create a story – again no words only the attribution for each image.

Activity 7 - Create a slideshow, photo gallery or poster about your interests to add to your about me page or as a separate post. Your final slide should include attribution for each image.

Activity 8 - Create your own images and add to a post of your choice. In your post add a link to the website or tool you used to create your image.

Other options for creating your own images include:

Image Generators such as ImageGenerator.org
Comic Generators like MakeBeliefsComix.com, ToonDoo
Photo Editors like Befunky, fd’s Flickr Tools
Tag Cloud Creators such as Wordle

Mixing up your images using these types of tools can really spice up your posts! Leave a comment on this post, if you or your class can recommend some other image sites to add to this list.

Activity 9 - Zoom out from an image

We first tried this activity in the challenge in September 2010. Choose a picture, and have your readers zoom out, so to speak, by leaving comments. Check out the example from Huzzah who finished their story. If doing this activity, include the word ‘zoom’ in your title so I can find it easily. Remember to give attribution. Most important here is to read previous comments, so you can add to the story.

Check out these zoom pictures: Becky, Jacqueline, Abbey

Activity 10 - Go back to previous posts

If you have used images in any previous posts you have written, then you are ethically obliged to give the correct attribution or take the image out of the post if it does not have the right creative commons license. Check out where Holly found her image, Samudraalso wrote a great post,

Activity 11 - Create a jigsaw from your image. Mrs Schmidt’s class has done this using Jigsaw Planet Here is her explanation

Last week (2014) my students made some jigsaw puzzles about famous places in our area. First each student created one Power Point Slide showing a photo and some facts about a location in our area. They saved the slide as a JPEG and then uploaded it toJigsaw Planet. Once the puzzle was created, they published a link to it on their Kidblog. Click on Niamh’s puzzle link.

Activity 12 - Write a post about different websites to find creative commons images. Are there any widgets you can add to your blog to make this easier?

Still got time left this fortnight (two weeks)

1. Visit other student and class blogs – leave some quality comments

2. Reply to comments on your own blog

3. Start using tags and categories with each post you write to make it easier for people to find posts on certain topics. Make sure you have the tags and categories widgets in your sidebar.

4. Have at least five other student blogs linked on your sidebar – students from other classes and schools – not your own. We will need this for a game we play in a couple of weeks.

Try to have a few different headings like
My Blogging Friends
Other Class Blogs

Having lots of links to student blogs from other countries will help spread the game.

Here are the instructions for adding links to your sidebars.

Edublogs, Blogger, Kidblog – not sure if this widget goes on the class page or each student page
Most important learning from this fortnight’s challenge is:

Use creative commons images, not just any image on the net. Always include attribution of where you found the image. Compfight plugin does this for you.

PS If you have done the blogging challenge before, you will find these activities are nearly the same each time. If you have ideas for different activities please leave a comment on this post.

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE

Miss W will only be adding posts to the flipboard magazine that:

- Are written in paragraphs
- Have been proofread
- Include an image, sound or video with attribution

So make sure you have taken note of this week’s learning about creative commons.

Miss W visiting your blogs

From this week onwards, I will only be visiting blogs where students or classes have left theURL to the post in a comment with an explanation. If your teacher is moderating your posts, you will need to wait until it has been published before giving me your URL. Check out the difference between a blog URL and a post URL.

Blog URL: http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org

Post URL : http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2015/10/10/raise-your-voice/