Strategic Partnership Project( Key action no 2)“ ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP AND ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS THROUGH FORMAL AND NON-FORMAL EDUCATION”( ACEAFNE)
In case you are not sure about some of the answers, try to guess. Each pair or group gets one question and the task is to read it together and answer it. Each group should appoint“ a secretary” who will write the answers down on a piece of paper. After one minute, I’ ll clap my hands and you will pass on your question to the group on your right. This will continue until all the groups have answered all the questions.
Then distribute the cut-out questions( Worksheet No. 1). Monitor the students while they are working in groups and clap your hands every minute to keep the activity dynamic.
2 / Check the answers together( 10 minutes) Before you tell them the correct answers( below), ask“ secretaries” from at least three groups how they answered the questions. Do not comment on the answers at this point. As for the last question, elicit as many answers as possible from your students. story.
Main activity( 50 minutes) 1 / Plastic waste in our class( 10 minutes)
Ask students to put all plastic bags, bottles and other waste that they have( e. g. from their backpacks) or they can find in the classroom together with the waste that you brought in the middle of the classroom. To make it more symbolic, you can first make one“ square metre“ from ropes on the floor – students will put the waste inside. Then have them guess: How big do you think a pile of plastic bags and bottles from all the students at this school would be? From all the people in this town? From all the people in this country? How many plastic bags do we use in this class during one week? Take a photo of the pile.
Tell them about their homework:“ How much plastic do I use in one week?” research. Students will calculate and record how many plastic bottles and bags, etc., they use in one week. Remind them that they should also count what is used in their family – e. g. after shopping. To motivate students, we recommend that you, the teacher, also take part in this research.
2 / Photos of plastic waste in the sea( 10 minutes) Inform your students that they will now look at photos of plastic waste. Print out the photos before the lesson or project them on the wall. You can provide them with more info about the photo( e. g. where it is, how much waste there is). Then ask them: What is in your head now? What are your very first impressions? Are there any questions you would like to ask? What would you like to know?( ask one of the students to write the questions down on a paper so you can work with them later).
Note: You can find a lot of photos on www. google. com( Images):“ plastic waste in the sea“ Their task is to write under each symbol the information they have underlined. However, they should not copy the exact words from the text but to write sentences using their own words. This procedure will help them to remember the information and consider it once more.
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