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CARBON FOOTPRINT

participate - calculate – compare - connect

Time period September-January 2014

Project DurationProject Duration 4 months

Education SectorEducation Sector Secondary

GradeGrade 1st

StudentsStudents 19 students , aged 16

SubjectSubject Project , integrated in the curriculum, 2 hours/week

TeacherTeacher Tryfonidoy Stella, Computer Science Teacher

Subject Natural Science , Informatics and ICTs

Cognitive objectivesTo name and define terms and natural phenomena such as the carbon footprint, greenhouse effect, global warming , climate change, sustainable development, active citizenship

To make lists and sort daily attitudes that have positive or negative environmental impact

To collect, process, analyze and evaluate data from different sources

To organize ideas and thoughts using mind maps

To recall natural sciences learned material that is incorporated in the school curriculum and relate it to real life

To form logical flow charts of cause and effect

Affective objectives

to develop a personal view point of human life to realize the

consequence of everyday actions

to enthuse, inspire and empower young people to take practical action to reduce, reuse ,save, natural resources on a daily basis

to raise students’ ecological awareness

to motivate them to search and use different sources of knowledge

Psychomotor objectives

to enable students' personal and social development

to develop students' ICT skills

to acknowledge the importance of learning foreign languages as a means of communicating and motivate them to work on it

to offer them the chance to work in groups and learn to cooperate and respect others’ opinions

To broaden their horizons while searching for similarities and differences between different countries and cultures

Work Procedure – First steps

Work Procedure - Phase 1Participate in ISCFC project (International Students Carbon Footprint Challenge)

E-mail account creation for each student.

Students fill out a Prep Worksheet

Calculate own Carbon Footprint

by using an international, student-oriented footprint calculator (English version) that works on line, after registering . Results sent via e-mail.

Analyze resultsCollecting data into a file, creating a class data file (Excel), comparing class data to region data.

ConnectStudents log on to a social learning network called Einztein and participate in ISCFC conversations with students across the globe, in English

Work Procedure- Phase 2

From a case study to a theory

Searching the Web : carbon footprint, greenhouse effect, global warming , climate change and sustainable development. Finding out the cause and effect relationship between them . Creating a Prezi presentation and embedded into school ‘s website.

Active citizenship’s tree

FollowIing instructions on a worksheet and drawing a tree Roots factors shape the AC, trunk attitudes, behaviors, actions , Branchesvalues . Writing down their ideas on a Public on line Pad , like TitanPad and drawing the tree using an image editor like Gimp. Uploading their work on School’s Blog.

How to reduce the carbon footprint

Working in groups, students wrote a report on effective ways related to their lifestyle decisions of reducing their impact on the planet.

Work Procedure- Phase 3

Research Report

Each team writes a final Research Report , using Word or another editor . To this end they follow detailed instructions posted in School's Blog. File delivered via e-mail and posted in School's Website and Blog directly or by using Slideshare.

Team and self evaluation by students

by using Survey Monkey via School’s Blog.Results report posted also in School’s Blog

Teamwork Public Presentation

Students present their Research Report to the school community.

Evaluation

…of Research Process…of content Project Reports…of Language and Structure of Research Report …of Public Presentation of Teamwork

Work Procedure- Phase 4

Extending the project

SOS-4-C02

• to an E-twinning partnership (5-month long) with the title SOS-4-CO2 .

• Partners: a Romanian and another Greek school. Students work on Twinspace .

• Students have already introduced themselves and sent a Christmas Card made in Scratch, during “the Hour of Code”.

NewResearch Inquires

Gross National Product and Carbon Footprint.

How does the European crisis affect the environment?

This scenario meets the criteria of

• Interdisciplinarity• Inquiry learning • Collaborative learning • ICT –based learning

environment• Adaptability• Extensibility

Evaluation of Learning Scenario

•ability to integrate collaborations with

third parties (ISCFC , e-Twinning)

•enhancing school’s extroversion

•creation of communication platform

(school blog)

student’s Low leved cooperative skills (they are not trained for it)

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Web Tools & Software we used

• School’s Website (Joomla)

• School’s blog (Wordpress)

• E-mail• Einztein• Twinspace• SurveyMonkey• Titan Pad• Examtime• Voki• Prezi• Slideshare• Scratch• MS Word, Excel• Gimp

• School’s Website (Joomla)

• School’s blog (Wordpress)

• E-mail• Einztein• Twinspace• SurveyMonkey• Titan Pad• Examtime• Voki• Prezi• Slideshare• Scratch• MS Word, Excel• Gimp