Design properties
- Name
- What if soil could speak to our farmers
- Topic
- environment and agriculture
- Learning time
- 5 hours and 5 minutes
- Designed time
- 5 hours and 5 minutes
- Size of class
- 12
- Description
- Students are asked: How to inform and what to say to the farmers of our area, about the impact of their agricultural activities on the soil? What if soil could speak to them? Find a way to inform the farmers and let's do it. In our area there are greenhouses for "out of season" vegetable production.
- Aims
- Students to 1. identify the categories of impact 2. propose measures to avoid them 3. inform the farmers of our area about it
- Outcomes
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- Knowledge they define the soil dynamics
- Comprehension they understand the impact of the agricultural activities in greenhouses on the soil
- Application they chose measures of protecting the soil
- Synthesis they combine all gained knowledge to produce/ organize information for the farmers (brochure, infograaphic, website, event...)
- Affective learning outcomes They show awareness of the danger of the degradation of the soil
- Editor
- msourgiad
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Timeline
Creating teams
45 minutes)
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Discuss2012TeamUp according to students' interests. If they have not access to pc and internet (for TeamUp application) they talk about their interests and write their competences on pieces of paper looking like puzzle pieces. Teacher makes the teams, balanced according to competences. Students agree on the teams formation.
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Collaborate20Ice-braking activity - creating a team poster (using the pieces of puzzle they have written), related to the driving question.
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Discuss5Defining and agreeing on roles in the team (leader, pc user, analyst, creator)
Notes:
12 students will form 3 teams.
Each team will work independently, towards a different final product. (There will be 3 different final products)
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collecting data
55 minutes)
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Discuss10Students discuss on what information they need in order to feel competent to inform farmers about ...
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Collaborate512They collaborate on who is searching for what, adding all data in a google doc.
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Investigate4012Students will search for information on: eg. what is the soil? What agricultural activities happen in greenhouses of our area, that relate to the soil?
Notes:
There will be collaboration during investigation too, deciding what resource of information to keep or not.
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the "soil" mindmap
70 minutes)
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Produce1512they design a mindmap of all data they have so far collected.
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Investigate15what is the impact of these activities on the soil? They find relations (activity-impact)
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Discuss3012They discuss and chose measures for avoiding impacts.
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Produce1012They add measures on the mindmap
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intermediate self assessment
25 minutes)
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Discuss1512Students present their work so far,reflect and discuss with the teacher. They check if all needed information is gathered, assessing their work so far.
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Collaborate1012Extra time is given for adjustments if needed.
Notes:
They may need to investigate more after the discussion.
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dissemination model
100 minutes)
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Discuss1012Students discuss to decide how they will disseminate their results to farmers, what they will produce or organize. (eg. leaflet, website, event...)
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Collaborate4512Teams collaborate to create, organize the product or event they have decided, using the information they have gathered.
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Produce4512Teams collaborate to create, organize the product or event they have decided
Notes:
Collaboration and production happens simultaneously.
Depending on what product or event students have chosen to elaborate, time for preparing it might be different from scheduled, so we need flexibility.
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evaluation
10 minutes)
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Discuss1012Teams discuss on the result of their work and the impact of it on the farmers.
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