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Evaluation Form Requirement! This Evaluation Form for Section A is to help us improve our program, learn about how you are using the materials and provide effective support to our participating teachers. Please fill this form out as thoroughly as you can. It should not take more than fifteen minutes of your time. Section B is designed to help you and your students take the broader concepts of Section A and provide examples of how human sustainability can be put into practice in communities. There are three different documentaries for you to share with your students that can open the door to current projects that are taking place around the world that use applied science, communication and partnerships to achieve specific sustainable goals in the relationship that humans have with their environments. Each video is accompanied by an information packet and a classroom worksheet that are to be used along with the videos. Please take time to read the description of the materials provided in Section B below before you begin using the materials. Note: You can watch more than one video and use all of the information packets and worksheets throughout the year if you would like. Information Packets The video information packets contain relevant concepts and vocabulary about the videos they correlate with but are more in-depth and detailed. The information and vocabulary words in the packets will help your students understand what they will be learning in the videos and provide them with a basic understanding of vocabulary so that when they watch the videos they are prepared. The packets for the first two videos were prepared by OEDSI while the third video packet for the Brown School Paper Recycling Project was prepared by a group of students and a teacher. The third packet is a good example of how you and your students can make your own information packets when you begin you own projects to provide for other students and teachers to learn from. Concepts covered in the information packets are also tied into the worksheets that are provided to test your students. Suggestion: Go through the information packet(s) on your own before watching the video(s) and cover the concepts in class with your students. You can have your students read them out loud in groups or read them separately on computers or during an assigned reading time in your class. It is helpful to let them know that learning the material in the packet(s) will help them to understand the content of the video(s) they will be watching and help them to learn answers to the questions they will be asked in the supplementary worksheets provided. Print out the information packet(s) and use them as an in-class resource for your students to look up information and use to review what they are learning. Documentaries The documentaries we have provided cover environmental issues in a particular area and the efforts of communities and scientists to address them in a sustainable way. Each documentary is unique and provides a different message but they all have a similar goal: to provide positive examples of how people in the world are making a difference. The videos will help you and your students to have a visual picture of the different components of science, technology, math, communication, politics, economics, and social structures that are involved in creating sustainable projects. All the videos that we provide are in English. The documentaries are also designed to help you and your students develop ideas about what you will need to start a project of your own, who you will need to include, how you will get money for your project and how you will be able to manage it over the long-term or whether it can become self-managed. The documentaries will hopefully inspire your students and provide them with real-life examples of the concepts they learned in Section A. Supplementary Worksheets You will find that each video comes with an information packet and two worksheets. The ‘student version’ contains a compilation of questions to test your students on the information that has been provided in the information packets, the videos and the concepts covered in Section A. The ‘teacher version’ provides answers and some discussion points for teachers to use to evaluate their students’ answers and reinforce certain concepts. Importance of Student Evaluation! It is important that each student gains this knowledge in a meaningful way and that their level of comprehension can be evaluated. The worksheets we have provided are only a simple example of how to test student comprehension and synthesis of the information provided. Although you many use any processes you feel are appropriate we do ask that you create some type of evaluation for the materials and concepts they will be learning throughout this program. The worksheets may have to be modified to meet the age level you need to target. Presently they are generally suitable for 9-16 year old students. |
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