AG 2: Just connect them! Creating new landscapes for ALL

Workshop leaders: Carmen Becker, Susanne Quandt

Here are the results:

WATER (Cordula, Diana, Susanne)

Goal: Small actions – big impacts, raising awareness for the preciousness of water

Driving question: Why should we care for water?

Make a word cloud about aspects of the question – brainstorming (safe, clean, accessible, temperature, salinity, moisture/humidity, water cycle, sewage, floods, droughts, habitats, forms of water: rain/ice/snow/thunderstorm, climate change, oceans/rivers/ponds/lakes, personal hygiene, sanitation…) –>wordle

ELICIT INTEREST

Films

  • The boy who harnessed the wind 2015 (article about the book CT 11, Workbook)
  • Flow
  • Blue Planet

Clips

Pictures: half-filled water reservoirs, floods Ahrtal, hail storms, tornadoes, glacier melting, dolphins/turtles with plastic, polar bear, beach cleaning …

Quotes (Fin):“We are fighting for our future“, “We can all make a difference“, “If we act now, we have a world we can all live on“.

Possible products: mockumentary (e.g. about a plastic bottle/tin, ocean clean-up…)/comic/graphic novel/interview/article/leaflet/guerilla stickers/subtitles or dialogues like in Aquastory/water as a topic or symbol or motif in music/art/literature

INQUIRY

pdf Lisbon reduce screenshots of slides 12-18, reuse screenshots of slides 5-6

usage of water: water calculator, water footprint,  UN statistics

global goals and world’s largest lesson worldslargestlesson.globalgoals.org

Blue gold – our drinking water and climate change

Decide on a product, discuss and exchange findings with your group, evaluate your findings, plan your product to raise awareness about why we should care for water.

MAKING

  • mockumentary (e.g. about a plastic bottle/tin, ocean clean-up…)
  • comic
  • graphic novel
  • interview
  • article
  • leaflet
  • guerilla stickers
  • subtitles or dialogues like in Aquastory
  • water as a topic or symbol or motif in music/art/literature

Student activities: Plan, produce language, assessment of first draft, edit, publish/present

Teacher activities: Explain the genre, give language support, criteria for evaluation/assessment

PDFs

58_BAG_2022-05-26-1500_AG2_1_Introduction_and_Refuse
58_BAG_2022-05-26-1500_AG2_2_Reduce
58_BAG_2022-05-26-1500_AG2_3_REUSE
58_BAG_2022-05-26-1500_AG2_4_Recycle

1 Introduction and Refuse
2 Reduce
3 Reuse
4 Recycle

2 comments on “AG 2: Just connect them! Creating new landscapes for ALL

  1. Lieber Dan, auch hier (wie bei Martin B.) ist die Präsentation von Carmen Becker noch nicht zu entdecken, außer unserer Gruppenarbeit ist auch kein weiteres AG-Ergebnis zu sehen. Soll ich nachhaken? LG Susanne

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