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

• The majestic plastic bag: a mockumentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLgh9h2ePYw
• The Aquastory: lisboaenova.org/en/aquastory/
• Newsround Fin climate activist: www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51109405
• Deutsche Welle: Explainer video drinking water: www.dw.com/en/video-explainer-blue-gold-the-dwindling-resource-of-water/av-53530102

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