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Home is a very powerful documentary which I believe would really hit home with the children about human activity having an impact on our environment. It emphasises how living a more sustainable life can have a huge positive effect on our planet. I would like to link this video with a project I carried out last year and plan to carry out again this year. It is on living a more sustainable life. We took our local town and sketched it and made our town in 3d using recycled materials. We then researched how to live a more sustainable life. We then added those elements to our sketches and 3d structures. The children then also did a whole class multiplayer project building their sustainable version of our town in Minecraft. This video would be great to watch during the research phase of our project.
This activity would be a great addition to learning about Climate and Climate change.
I would go over vocabulary and prior knowledge before starting. The videos are very informative and do so much explaining for you. In using the tool, I would firstly use it as a whole class investigation and use the interactive whiteboard as it is quite tricky. The children could then work in groups on their devices. We are a very multinational school so it might be an idea to work on a number of different countries and then to present their findings to other classes and involve the Green Schools Committee in their work. The children who originate from different countries other than Ireland would find it very interesting to learn about their country. We can then discuss our results and how we think we could encourage changes in behaviours to help.Great idea to get the Green School Committee involved. They will be passionate about it and help to promote it school-wide!
Claire,
I love your idea about having buddies with the ASD class to get them involved also. I will definitely look into this too!
STEM in my classroom is evolving from what 20 odd years ago when I started teaching when I would have taught it as a very stand alone area. I now try to investigate a topic over a number of weeks throughout a number of subject areas. Weather and Climate was part of our curriculum this year in 5th class. I have gotten so many great ideas from the module and by completing the activities which will be very useful. It is vital to get the children actively learning and making a weather station and observing the weather in real time will really bring this topic to life for them. Also getting the whole school involved in such a project would be very beneficial. We could also get our Green Schools committee involved in helping with constructing our weather station and helping to record readings. I also like to use Minecraft to build and explore ideas and possible future inventions which will help with protecting our environment. This might be an idea to expand on the learning from the activities.