Promoting a better future (Developing).
- 1. Promoting a better future. The Pollution’s Problems. Raquel Lorenzo Franco. Rosana Sánchez Robles.
- 2. Developing. Our activity will take us six days more or less. We want children to create a campaign in order to encourage people to perform good habits each day to look after the environment. Children have to follow two simple steps to make their campaign. The first step: The first day, we will introduce the activity by showing some videos to children about the pollution problems. In order to make children aware of what it is happening in our world and so on. We will ask them for a reflection about the videos.
- 3. The second day, children have to form pairs and choose a name for their pairs/groups. Then, we will ask them about what they believe that they can do to finish with this situation. How can they contribute to look after the environment? They have to design in pairs five examples, which they really believe that are good habits to look after the environment; they can do it writing or drawing the examples, as they prefer. Once they have designed the five examples, the whole class will do an assembly to talk about their ideas, and to solve any doubt which have arisen during the activity and they will evaluate the work of their classmates through a rubric which will take into account some aspects.
- 4. We will explain them form the first moment how they should act, how their behavior should be and so on. They can't make hurtful comments to their classmates, and if they make them, their qualification will be worse, because they have to work in pairs and the respect to others is the main aspect. We will tell them that they have to do a critical qualification for their classmates. We will give them a rubric through which they will be able to put a mark taking into account some aspects. This rubric will be similar to the rubric which we use to evaluate them in the final qualification. This previous qualification will help them to improve their work before the final qualification.
- 5. Children will give their examples to the couple of their right and they will qualify them. In this way, children can't choose who are going to qualify them or who aren't. The rubric will take into account some aspects, such as: The attitude. The cooperative work. The creativity of the examples. The effort in the work. The marks will be from 1 as minimum to 10 points as maximum.
- 6. The second step: The third day, we will show children tutorials about how to use the three applications which we want they to use. The first app will be Magisto, the second one will be YouTube, and the third one will be Twitter. We will give children free time to understand how to use them and to examine them, in order to solve any doubts that they can have about them. Once they know how to use them, we will ask them to record the good habits which they have designed, in order to decorate them in Magisto, to upload them to YouTube, and to tweet them with a slogan on Twitter. We will create an account on each application, in order to the whole class can use them to do their work. We will give them the email and the password to access to the applications and they have to put their names and the following hashtag: #SSAP, which means Social Science And Pollution, when they finish their work, so that we can differentiate each group.
- 7. Then, in the same pairs they have to record their good habits. Every child has to record his partner twice and, finally, in his fifth video they will have to ask their parents for help in order to record it. If children do not want to appear in the videos, or if any parents do not let children appear in the videos, children can create characters by drawings them to record the video, as many characters as they prefer. They can record the videos in the school, in the classroom or in their house, as they prefer, and of course, it will depend on the good habits they have designed.
- 8. Children will have three more days in order to prepare their videos, to upload them to YouTube, and to choose or imagine an slogan to put the tweets. Two days to prepare the individual videos (a video of each child per day), and to upload them on YouTube, and to put the tweets with the URL and the slogan and one day to do the same process but with the common video. Children have to think about how and where they are going to record the videos and about the things which they need to do it. The seventh and the eighth day, children will show their work to the whole class for six minutes to explain their activity.
- 9. We will evaluate them also through a rubric. This one will be similar to which they will use to evaluate the work of their classmates but this one will be more complete. The rubric, which we will use, will take into account some aspects, such as: The attitude. The cooperative work. The creativity of the examples. The effort. The slogans. The music. The themes. The appropriate use of the apps.