I keep six honest
serving men (they taught me all I knew);
Their names are
What
and
Why
and
When
and How
and Where
and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
ESDGC:
Education
for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship - is about:
The logo
is:
the links between our lives
and those of other people throughout the world
the needs and rights of
future generations
the relationships between
power, resources and human rights
the local and global
implications of everything we do.
the actions taken by
individuals or organisations in response to local and global issues.
Communication:
Non-fiction texts can be divided into six main
types called 'text
purposes':
The logo is:
The benefits of using speaking
frames: *
Helps to set the criteria for effective
responses.
* Reduces vague language, encourages precise and
concise language.
* Encourages productive use of academic
vocabulary and helps confirm understandings.
What
is proposed at Manor Farm? Where is Manor Farm? Who is involved in the
argument? What are the arguments in favour? What are the arguments
against?
Task: Explain what happened in Bangladesh. Draw a graph to show the main
exports of Bangladesh and explain why the textile trade is so important
to the country. What should we as 'consumers' do - Buy from Bangladesh
or Boycott clothes from Bangladesh or do something else??
Plenary You've
got 90 seconds to think of a one sentence slogan to end the advert - it
could be about why we shouldn't buy £2 T shirts.
Task: Describe the who, what, where, when and why of this news story (in
about 100 words) - include an accurate sketch map.
Image Look closely at the image for 60
seconds.
Jot down an observation question to test the class with.
Try to guess the specialist term the teacher has written down.
Lesson 58
Can
the 'black smokers' yield copper, zinc, nickel and lead?
Task: Describe the location of the incident. Describe the distribution
of sites where the affected birds were found. Use percentage figures to
identify the worst affected area.
Task:
For Jakarta and Sydney write paragraphs based on the news clips making
sure that you include answers the following questions ...
Where are they?
What weather event occurred?
When did it happen?
Who was affected?
What are the indirect impacts of this weather?
"a product that is
perhaps the ultimate manifestation of the consumer age. Selling people
what they already can have almost for free - in bottles produced from
oil, 70% of which are never recycled."
The story of
'stuff'
Either ...
a) write at least words about this news story - answering at least 4
questions or
b) Design a poster to support a 'ban the bottle' campaign or
c) Write a presentation for the school council suggesting three things
this school could do to support this general campaign or d) Fully explain the quote above or
e) suggest another relevant/appropriate task that you could do to the
teacher - get it approved and do it.
Where is it? What was the problem? How did the EA* solve the problem?
When did it fail? Why did it fail? Who is affected? Who is to blame? So
what? *EA - Environment Agency
Task: Working with a partner produce a radio advert (in English) of
about 30secs to 60 secs length aiming to persuade a target audience that
rhino horn is best left on rhinos. Tell us who your target audience is.
Homework Task: Produce a magazine poster with the title "Is there a
brighter future for Afghan girls?". Sub-divide your poster / article
into at least 4 side-headings which ask and then answer your own
questions. Include a map and at least one diagram. Try to explain why
education for girls would be good for the country as whole.
Task: Write an account of the Congo fever incident in the UK - mention
the UK case, the symptoms of the disease, how the disease is passed to
humans, where the disease is found. Or design a leaflet to make the
public more aware of CCHF but aiming to avoid a 'mass panic' response.
Task: Write a letter / or design a poster aimed at the new Chinese
Government either persuading them to keep or to abolish the One Child
Policy.
Son preference - what would your slogan be?
Task
: Working in a group sized between 2 and 4 people - write a 30-60
second dialogue about metal theft and its consequences. It should be
suitable for broadcasting on a local radio station as an advert / public
service announcement. You can't show pictures so your words will have to
describe the scene and what has happened.
Be prepared to perform this to the class - everyone must say something.
Extra Challenge - think of a slogan for your campaign and be ready to
explain the ideas behind it.
Draw
a sketch map to locate the Galapagos
Islands and add 6 annotations to explain
this story and
why
it is important. (Think about how
we might mark it!)
Challenge - How many of the world's Top Ten Most
Endangered Species can you name?
Choose one species - suggest what you would do to improve it chances of
survival.
Try to
write 100 words of text to answer
who
these people were, where
they were working,
what
was different between the jobs in
the two places, why
the job was so tough in Jakarta. You should include a simple sketch map
to locate the two places.
Try to
write 100 words of explanation text to answer
who
these people were, where
they were coming from and to,
why
they were there, what
happened to them. You should include a simple sketch map.
Homework: Try to write a discussion text explaining at least 4 good
points and 4 bad points connected with the increasing growth of biofuels.
Remember to end with your conclusion.
Fascinator Ask 4 questions about this
cartoon. Try to find out what it means?
"The
Night Train from Miyagi to Haida Gwaii". Recount the story behind this
headline.
Homework: Summarise the story behind the lesson title in under 20 words. Then:
using exercise 2 tell the story in chronological order in no more than
ten short paragraphs.
Fascinator As a class ask the teacher
up to 6 questions about this image. They will try to answer honestly and
openly.
Homework: Answer the lesson title question. Then: using Kipling's 6
questions - either produce Information Text, Text and Diagrams or just
Diagrams to inform us about Jardim Gramacho -
Lesson
40
SelGo?? What's she got to
do
with Geography?
After each clip ask
your partner one relevant question and also answer your partner's
question. Be ready to share you question and answer with the class.
Teacher: What do the
symbols in the 'Text DONATE' section mean? [Yes - I text donated £5]
Therapeutic Food This peanut-based
paste is specially formulated to provide key micronutrients, vitamins
and minerals to severely malnourished children.
Homework: Answer the lesson title question. Then: Try to write an
advert for the Unicef Sahel campaign emphasising what the money being
donated will be used for.
Lesson
39
What's the recipe for
diguettes (stonelines)?
Task /
Homework: Answer the lesson title question. Firstly list the 'ingredients' (equipment)
and Secondly ...
Either give step by step instructions in English of how to make
stonelines - use specialist language . Or produce up to eight diagrams with captions giving step by step
instructions of how to make stonelines - aimed at an international
market who may not speak much English.
Homework: Answer the lesson title question. Try to explain
why people in the Sahel are facing famine again. Cover questions
like.... Where is it? What's happening? What caused it? How are
people affected? What can we do? You can of course replace writing
with labelled diagrams.
Lesson
37
What's the Story?
Sierra Leone On Friday 24th
February 2012 the school held a non-uniform day for Sierra Leone. Why?
Find Fort McMurray in
the atlas. Athabasca River, Edmonton and Alberta. [map
adapted from source: Wikipedia]
"Together,
these oil sand deposits lie under 141,000 square kilometres of sparsely
populated boreal forest and muskeg (peat bogs) and contain about 1.7
trillion barrels of bitumen in-place, comparable in magnitude to the
world's total proven reserves of conventional petroleum."
Homework: Research child labour in the
cocoa industry using the
Nestle website. Produce a poster with words and images to explain
why child labour is such a problem in the Ivory Coast.
Interactive Diagram Get ideas then write
up the story of the Rena running aground in 100 words covering - what
happened, where and when, how wildlife is affected and who is to blame.
Finally explain why some New Zealanders are saying 'less hui and more
do-ey'
OddBox does any items remind you of our News Story? (Yarn bombing?)
WHAT? Japan's
most powerful earthquake since
records began - measured at 9.0 by
the US Geological Survey - has
struck the north-east coast,
triggering a massive tsunami.
Task:
Write 100 words explaining the events of Groundhog Day. Try to include
these words:
Pennsylvania,
Punxsutawney, Phil, Groundhog,
Predict, Spring, 125 years, 2nd February.
Note
- where have we mentioned these places before?
Task:
Draw two labelled diagrams to show how the nets work and also how plants
like aloe vera can be irrigated with the water. Extra: Add a paragraph
of text to develop the story to say why they grow aloe vera.
Task:
either
draw a fully labelled sketch map
or
a fully labelled diagram to explain where the key places are, what has
happened, and why it has happened.
Paired
Task: What is your idea for grabbing the world attention for this issue?
What issue? What idea? How would
you present it? What is the 'hidden message'?
What is the question?
4 countries: Bill Gates
and Rotary International: Mainly in Nigeria:
February 23rd 2011:
To Eradicate Polio: Planting crocus bulbs:
Task:
Write a Press Release for the Abergavenny Chronicle to explain our part
in the 'Focus on the Crocus campaign?
33; 700
metres deep; 750 Kms north of Santiago;
05.08.10; copper and gold; main
access tunnel collapsed.
Task:
Draw a map to locate the key places. Add annotations to ask and answer
some of the key questions. Your newspaper editor wants this ready for the
next edition.
Colour
code the labels into the four categories or put the correct label
numbers under each heading.
Write
your own 100 word / two minute news report to accompany the raw footage
below.
Mention -
1) What happened / where
2) Why flights were grounded across Europe
3) How else the UK was affected - remembering Steve Bennett the referee.
Ref Bennett stranded in Romania by
volcanic ash, misses Man City-Man Utd game
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
(CP) – 2 days ago
LONDON — Premier League referee Steve
Bennett has been replaced for Saturday's Manchester derby between City
and United after getting stranded in Romania by the effects of a
volcanic eruption in Iceland.
A referee's teaching coach, Bennett has
been in Romania taking a course for budding young match officials.
He was due to fly back Friday but the ash
blowing across northern Europe is a danger to aircraft and a ban is in
force on flights entering and leaving Britain.
The Premier League said he was due to
referee the derby at Eastlands but has been replaced by Martin Atkinson.
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