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Pedagogy
MILESTONE 1
Student explores the project and develops a set of need to know (NTKs).
Entry Event
Students watch the video to help them understand climate change.
Preview the project
Students are introduced to the expectations for the final product.
Exploring the driving question
Students explore the question, “How can we as a community solve the problem of climate change?”
MILESTONE 2
Student explores the weather pattern, the difference between weather and season, the difference between weather and climate, the history causes, the role of greenhouse gases and the connection between climate change and the global warming.
Research the papers
Students explore the research on the basic knowledge of climate change.
Research the history causes
Students explore the research on why climate change is happened.
Research the greenhouse gases
Students explore the research on the role of greenhouse gases in our lives and in Earth’s climate and what are the consequences of excessive uses of this gases.
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MILESTONE 3
Students research the ways to solve climate change
Research the ways
Students research the solutions of the climate change
MILESTONE 4
Student teams provide their own solutions to slow and reverse the climate change.
Brainstorm the ideas
Students brainstorm the ideas for the climate change problem and come up with their own ideas.
MILESTONE 5
Student teams draft and finalize the paper presentations proposing the remedies for the climate change.
Plan the team presentation
Students analyze the audience, select a topic, define the objective of the presentation, prepare the content, the body and the introduction and the conclusion.
Draft presentation with feedback
Student teams draft the presentation and receive the feedback from the facilitator.
Revise presentation
Student teams revise their presentation based on the feedback from their facilitator.
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MILESTONE 6
Student teams present the solutions for the climate change problems
Practice and prepare
Student teams make final preparations and doing the rehearsing and revising.
Present
Student teams provide the final presentation to their experts.
Reflect
Students and their facilitators reflect on their original NTKs and their current sense of understanding.