We could have thought about our planet before | Agenda 2030
Let's start the ball rolling!
Your project. General Information
The aim of this project is to promote the 2030 AGENDA among you, your friends, family, etc., volunteers are needed to become changemakers. Therefore, it is essential to surf different websites and overcome several tasks that will help you gain knowledge and acquire strategies.
Vocabulary related to clean water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, industry, innovation and infrastructure and sustainable cities and communities
To skim and scan
To explain information
To remember details
To read awareness
To develop research skills and visual design skills
To express single past actions which have a connection with the present
To express unfinished actions which started in the past and continue to the present
To make clear which action happened first.
To use our own words to talk about SDG 6,7,9 and 11
To use relative pronouns
To distinguish between defining and non-defining clauses
To review the pronunciation of -ed ending in regular verbs
To mediate
How?
By an Active Learning Methodology that makes you active in your learning process during classroom activities.
These strategies promote a change of focus in the teaching-learning process. Therefore, we refer to it as a student-centered methodology.
Active learning techniques include role-playing, group projects, think-pair-share, peer teaching, debates, class discussion, etc.
Your teacher
Your teacher will act mainly as:
informant and resource, providing suitable input (dialogues, narratives, descriptions, word meanings, etc.);
assessor and monitor of meaningful learning experiences;
diagnoser of interests and needs;
motivator, prompter and generator of positive attitudes;
provider, organiser, controller and participant of second language acquisition situations.
Important information to take into account
The aim of this project is to create a comic as a final challange to promote sustainable cities and communities. Therefore, it is essential to surf different websites and overcome several missions that will help you gain knowledge and acquire strategies
In order to know important information, go to the following titles:
Your Work
Before doing the final challenge you will have to do 4 TASKS. The tasks that you will have done at the end of this project are:
1st Task: doing a questionnaire in order to know if friends and relatives know about the poor situation of water in developing countries.
2nd Task: doing an infographic with ideas to save energy.
3rd Task: creating an invention to help developing countries.
4th Task: doing a digital map pointing sustainable cities.
The final challenge: designing a comic about an ideal town in order to promote sustainable cities and communities.
Assessment
Your teacher will use the assessment rubrics to evaluate your work on the missions and the final challenge:
Rubric to assess a questionnaire
Rubric to assess an infographic
Rubric to assess an invention
Rubric to assess a digital map
Rubric to assess a comic
Promoting your work
t is essential to promote the work you are doing with your friends, family, school, town, etc. in order to make the Global Goals come true for everyone. They can become Changemakers who can work with you.
Therefore, prepare, publish or share with the help of the online tools and apps listed below.
To publish, you will use Weebly site. An email account is required to create your own site where you will be posting all your missions. Within this site, you will create a blog entitled 'Your learning diary' in which you will be including relevant information concerning your learning process.
To share your work with other people, you will use Pinterest, a digital board where you can publish your tasks and share them with your classmates.
At the end of the project, if you do a great job, your teacher will give you a certificate of particpation from the Unesco.
Learning Diary or Blog
A Learning diary will help you to develop your linguistic competence and your autonomy in the learning process of English. Therefore, we encourage you to write your own reflections. In order to do it, you will have to create your own blog or google site. Name it with your nickname and add the word CHANGEMAKER (ex. IsaCHANGEMAKER)
Before publishing, show your draft to the teacher.
Here you have the first questions to answer:
Do you think the tasks will relate to your interests?
Can you compare the content with the previous knowledge you have?
How can you apply the content in your daily life?
Tools and Apps
To create, design and edit your work, you will be able to use the following apps, among others:
Canva, Genially and Google Site will enable you to design and create your own infographic, news report and timeline.
Weebly site. An email account is required to create your own site where you will be posting all your missions.
Pinterest, a digital board where you can publish your tasks and share them with your classmates or other people.
No child left behid!
It is essential to promote solidarity among our students.
Nowadays, it is very common to have in class students from different nationalities and some of them have just arrived to our school and they do not know the vehicular language. Therefore, the rest of the students should help them to understand as much as they can. Therefore, indirectly, our students will be working the competence of mediation.
Moreover, it is very common to have different levels in class (multilevel class). So, when watching a video you can:
Use subtitles in the language you consider
Reduce speed
Play the video more time than usually
Give them more time to answer the activities of comprehension and allow them to answer in a simpler way.
Play the volume upper in case someone need it and allow him or her to sit down closer tho the speakers.
In this OER, you will realise that there are a huge variety and interdisciplinar tasks to work all the specific competences because not all the students are good in all of them. This helps to show them that they are outstanding to avoid possbile frustrations.
Have we done our homework?
We are always talking about meeting the 2030 Agenda.
However, have we done something in order to meet the SDG? In pairs, expose your opinion
What do you already know about the four sustainable development goals we are going to deal with in this project?
Imagine some classmates have just arrived to your high school and they never have heard about the 2030 Agenda. Help them to know them.
Do not forget to mention your mistakes in the past to contribute with the 2030 Agenda. Use 'used to' or "did not use to". You can reviewhere in order to do your task corrrectly.
Here you have some examples:
When I was a kid , I did not use to use a glass of water to wash my teeth.
When I washed my hands, I used to leave the tap opened for 30 minutes
When I was I 12 years old, I used to leave the water running while I was washing the dishes.
Since Christmas, I am paying less in my water bills / I have paid less in my water bills since Christmas.
Learning diary
Now, write in your learning diary your reflections.
What aspects or tasks are the most important in this project?
What do I expect to learn throughout this work project?
What is the final product?
How are we going to get organized in the classroom?
What tasks do I have to do before the final challenge?
What do I expect to learn throughout this work project?
