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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.

Volunteers needed
Geralt. Volunteers Needed (Pixabay License)

Along this project:

We are learning to...
  • Express general truth, future events, hypothetical situations and regrets.
  • Express planned actions, arrangements, predictions and spontaneity.
  • Debate
  • Skim and scan articles written in not adapted English
  • Vocabulary related to the semantic field of   gender equality,  work and economic growth, reduced inequalities, peace, justice and strong institutions
  • Play word guessing (Jobs)
  • Create an infographic
  • Do a job interview
  • Do a timeline
  • Write news reports
  • Create a digital site
  • Review questions words
  • Give right intonation in questions: up and down
  • Discuss what it means to be a Changemaker
  • Explaining information
  • Remembering details
  • Reading awareness
  • Develop research skills and visual design skills.
How?

By an Active Learning Methodology that make 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 do a video presentation to promote becoming a changemaker as a final challenge. 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 different titles listed below.

Important
Geralt. Important (Pixabay License)
 
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: an infographic to empower girls and women.
  • 2nd Task:  job interview to start practicing
  • 3rd Task:  a visual timeline of a country that along the history could have erradicated several inequalities but did not and now regrets.
  • 4th Task: a news report related to a peaceful world.
  • The final challenge consists of creating a digital site with news report related to equality all over the world.
Assessment

Your teacher will use the assessment rubrics to evaluate your work on the missions and the final challenge:

  • Rubric to assess a infographic
  • Rubric to assess an interview 
  • Rubric to assess a timeline
  • Rubric to assess a news report
  • Rubric to asses a  digital site
Promoting your work

It 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.

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 you 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:

  1.  Canva, Genially and Google Site  will enable you to design and create your own infographic, news report and timeline.
  2.  Wevideo, the tool with which you can create and edit a video.
  3. Kdenliven  and capcut are video editors.
  4. Magisto Movie is a video editor for mobile phones.
  5.  Weebly site. An email account is required to create your own site where you will be posting all your missions.
  6.  Pinterest, a digital board where you can publish your tasks and share them with your classmates or other people

Do you you know your rights at work?

Soon, you can work if you wish.  It is time to investigate a few questions.

Scale
Quimono. Scale (Pixabay License)

Work in groups in order to find an asnwer to the following questions.

  • How old do you need to be able to work in your country?
  • Do you know your rights at work?
  • And children rights?
  • Children have the right to be protected from doing work that is dangerous or bad for their education, health or development.

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?
  • How am I going to be evaluated?

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