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Yes I agree that the video would be a great opener to a lesson on climate change. It would grasp the pupils attention and they would engage with the content and they could then proceed to have a talk and discussion activity based on climate change and greenhouse emissions.
Activity 3 Climate Reporters
This activity could be conducted in class by having a discussion around climate change and greenhouse gas emissions and to find out what the pupils already know about these concepts and talk about relevant word events around climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.
Pax’s video could be used to start a discussion as a lesson opener.
Group work could be done around different tasks written on card and given to the various groups in the class and pupils could complete a sorting activity based on the importance of the tasks.
After completing the activity, pupils could reflect on how their behaviours and their households could make changes to improve their attitudes towards greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
For early finishers, they could complete the comprehension activity and complete vocabulary work on new words they don’t understand.
Depending on the age-group, they could also write a prediction piece on how they expect the world to behave around climate change in future years.
Research Question: How many litres of fuel on average are consumed by cars on a weekly basis by the parental cohort in the school travelling to school and how can we make improvements to how pupils travel to school?
We would have a class discussion about the distance the children live from the school. We would talk about the average distance and time it takes the children to travel to school. We would use computational skills such as multiplication, division, adding to figure out these mathematical questions. Children can work individually or in pairs to figure out the answers.
Children would figure out the answers and their findings and the total cost of fuel consumed on a weekly basis to travel to school.
The pupils can choose a list of alternatives to travel to school such as walking, cycling, scootering, car pooling and perhaps the school could promote initiatives a..s as Walk on Wednesday, Car Free Friday and so on. This way, children are promoting the reduction of pollution in the environment and also helping their parents save ever so slightly when fuel prices keep increasing in the present climate.
We also have the deposit return scheme in our school. I like the idea of the student council having responsibility and being in charger of collecting and depositing the bottles and deciding on where the money is spent. It gives the children an array of skills and makes them feel that they are doing their bit for the environment.
These sound amazing and I really enjoyed reading them and knowing what exists in the skies above us.
Children in senior classes would definitely enjoy searching these apps and finding satellites and looking at the videos provided to learn about Earth and make their own observations.
The higher up activity can provide excellent teaching opportunities to create discussion opportunities for pupils and connections with the wider world and the world around them.
From time to time, I like to use Google Earth so children will see what the world looks like in a satellite view.
The resources shared in this module are excellent opportunities for children to learn about the world above them and to learn about the satellites and become loves of the planets and stars and satellites in the sky above them.
There’s opportunities in the lesson to use language skills, photographic and ICT skills and children can develop their sentences and oral language skills and written language skills.
They would also have to match the photos together. They could compare and contrast what is different and what is similar.
As an early finisher activity, children could complete an independent task and search for various places on google earth such as their house, school, the local supermarket, GAA Club, Soccer Club, Croke Park, Aviva Stadium.
I agree that short snippets of information videos would be best suited. I think this film would be suitable for 5th and 6th class and that they could complete a project and theme of work around the film and topic of climate change.
I found the Home video very inspiring and reflective on how our individual practices can influence climate change.
In terms of using the video Home in the classroom, it could be used to elicit classroom discussion around climate change and the causes of climate change and the impact of climate change.
The video could be used to observe energy efficiency in the community such as schools on a campus with solar panels and houses in estates close by with solar panels. Other energy renewable sources could be discussed to give children examples and make connections with their own personal lives.
Children could also discuss their thoughts and feelings around climate change and discuss their own ideas around the theme.
Children could also create their own class agreements similar to the Paris Agreement and a school climate action plan could be created to foster greater awareness around the theme of climate change.
I totally agree with differentiation being a requirement for teaching terminology around weather and climate. Pictures are necessary for me also in a Gaelscoil setting and phonetics and how to say words.
Having reflected on my own practice of STEM teaching, I enjoy giving children opportunities for hands-on and collaborative tasks and engineering and Mathematical tasks that are all age appropriate depending on the class group I’m teaching.
In line with the New Primary Curriculum Framework, it gives a lot of opportunities for the teaching of STEM in collaboration instead of in isolation. Tasks can be created to get children to think about the concepts of each subject within for example a science project.
I completed activity 2 around Air temperature. Weather tools could be used throughout the school to record weather such as a thermometer, a weather gauge.
I find this lesson would provide excellent opportunities to compare and contrast the difference between weather and climate and following the warm weather we have experienced this summer in Ireland and throughout Europe, it would be an excellent learning experience for children of all ages.
Integration with real life scientists could be developed too organising Meet the Scientist webinars for suitable age-groups.