3° I WebQuest

IF YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR WORLD, IT WILL CARE ABOUT YOU

 

Introduction

   We´re living the hard consequences about the pollution of the World; you have to decide, How are you going to live? Maybe with less illness or more problems…

   Now You´re member of an important sociality in your town “The planet needs you, we help it”. Your team has been assigned   the project of creating the best ways to take care our planet.

 

        Fist part

    Think about these questions: What kind of problems are you and your family living about the pollution? What kind of disaster have you seen?, Have you thought about your bad habits consequence?  What is the process that you think to stop the climate change?   What is the difference between climate change and global warming? Why is it important to do more about our planet? What is or are the Greenpeace association goals? What is the situation in your town about these problems?

                      Task

ü    Work with a workgroup (five classmates) the according to “the planet needs you, we help it”.

ü    Activities: Every one member has to investigate in English about each question.

* Student one:

   - Different problems and how is your community affected by the pollution?

­                               (the most important at less 2).     Eg.  Dirty streets because we are more people and they don´t have               

                             Good habits.

                       * Student two:

                              - What areas are been affecting about the pollution in your town    (the most important minimum 2).

   - What is the community doing to stop it?

        Agriculture, government gives credits to the farmworkers to produce their field.

*Student three:

   - What and why animal species are in danger of extinction in our Country-Mexico (at less 2).

      The turtles, because last century the people ate them without plan to protect this specie.

     Iguana, Jaguar, Quetzal, etc.

* Student four:

   - What States in our country are doing something to stop the pollution?

   - What are they doing?

     (at less 2 states)

 * Student five:

                             - Collect visual material about real disasters in your town about the pollution (minimum 2)

                             - Collect visual material about disasters in our Country (minimum 2).

       Second part

                      Task

ü  Use different ways for looking information like, interviews, books, webs, etc. Remember to write the bibliography, website, etc.

ü  Organize a presentation in Power Point (each student 1, total 5 slides), with two sentences each, using the zero and first conditionals.

ü  Make 2 posters about causes and effects; share them with your team and make and exhibition in the class, with proposes to our community.

 

Remember your information is going to be the best in the world.

     Third part

In group:

* Organize and take an order the most important information (dates, photos, films, etc).

- Pay special attention to the grammar structure past, present and future tenses.

* You have to add and show this information:   http://www.elizaenglish4.blogspot.mx/

  On Friday 26  June.

- Remember to write and learn sentences to explain the slides, practicing the oral form. The presentation is in Power Point.

Resources: Web sites:  http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/, Magazines, Newspapers, The news, etc. Dictionary.

 

Evaluation: A rubric

     

Conclusion

    This strategy was designed to practice (understanding and speaking), to become aware, to use and think the consequences by yourself and the collaborative work. The final goals are learning this Second language and take care the world.

Congratulations! Your team wowed us with all that you now know about to pollution world  and how we can all work to save it. Move over, you’ve got competition now!