Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Activity 6 - Creating


jingle.mp3 -
Subject: Geography
Level: Upper Sec
Topic: Development
Learning Objectives:
  1. Students will be able to discuss evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of providing international aid to developing countries.
  2. Students will be able to create a news cast on the plight of children who are involved in child labour in developing countries.
Sequence of Activities
  1. Students read articles of examples of TNCs eg Nike, Microsoft, that exploit child labour
  2. Students brainstorm the reasons why children have to work at an early age and their consequences. Ideas to be represented in a mind map and posted on their blogs.
  3. Students to create a podcast which can be in the form of a news report, plea from a child labourer, plea from a parent whose child is working etc and post them in their group blog.
  4. Groups to access each other's podcast and analyse and give suggestions on how international organisations can help the child labourers.

Pennies for Peace Jingle

Pennies, pennies, for a child
The more you give, the more they'll smile
Pencils, books, computers too
Go a long way to see them through
Pennies,. pennies, for a child
Why don't you give some now?

Activity 4 - Analysing



Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Lesson Design

Subject - Geography
Level - Upper Sec
Topic - Climate Change
Learning Objectives (Please include the thinking skill) -
  1. To be aware of the consequences of climage change on the environment (understanding)
  2. To compare the climate of the present with that twenty years ago (comparing)
  3. To evaluate the way climate has changed through the years (evaluating)
  4. To analyse the causes of climate change (analysing)
Sequence of Activities -
  1. trigger - students to read article on climate change in the world in blog - students to post comments and thoughts about what they have read.
  2. students to surf net for videos on climate change and post on their own self created group blog
  3. students also craft discussion questions based on the video they have uploaded.
  4. other students to post comments on relevance of videos and answer the questions posted.
  5. students to create a powerpoint on causes of climate change and post it on google docs.
Resources - videos, blogs, reading materials

Our Masterpiece ( Activity 3)

B among the 3 logos,
  • movement looks more agile and fluid, representative of active youth
  • the 5 vivid colours are also representative of the vitality of young people
  • the shape of the figure is not very obvious of a person but we can still see that it represents a figure of a person in movement