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Tools for teaching and learning
Add a toolName | Description | Last updated |
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| Understanding climate change | Understanding climate changeThis page from the New Zealand 4 million careful owners website contains information for student and teachers about climate change, including how to take action and prepare for, and adapt to, climate change. Activities include an interactive game and making the greenhouse effect in a jar. There are also booklets on climate change (PDFs), and picture and learning resources for teachers including links to the environmental education guidelines. Carbon.http://www.4million.org.nz/climatechange/understanding/schoolstuff/index.php | 07/04/08 |
| Enquiry process for senior primary | Mapua School near Nelson used an enquiry process for examing environmental issues in their local community. They examined chemical pollution and carbon footprints - among others. Wetlands. Carbon footprint. Graphic organisers. Sustainability.
Check out http://www.livingheritage.org.nz/schools/primary/mapua/good-bad-ugly/process.php which outlines their process | 07/04/08 |
| Ideas for Action | Photo example of student developed 'action ideas' for their school. Upload file: | 26/03/08 |
| Decision making tools and examples | Photo examples of student completed decision making matrices. Photos. Upload file: | 26/03/08 |
| A framework for teaching controversial issues. | Key questions to consider when teaching about controversial issues with students. Values. Graphic organiser. | 20/03/08 |
| Consequence wheel as a graphic organiser | A graphic organiser for students to generate positive and negative consequences of an action e.g., sea-level rises due to global climate change. Other graphic organisers also on this file. Upload file: | 20/03/08 |
| Programme planning and evaluation | Recommended read: "Program Evaluation: Forms and approaches" by John Owen, 3rd edition, 2006 Published by Allen and Unwin, Australia. For anyone considering evaluation and programme planning for EE I strongly recommend you check out this book. It’s designed for practitioners working in interventions to address social issues, at any level (policy, large regional programmes or small programmes and events). The book helps you choose from five types of evaluation e.g. proactive, monitoring or impact, depending one what stage of development you are at, and what your information needs are. It gives a very clear explanation as to how to develop and implement your evaluation plans. It also has information about the generic issues around evaluation such as involving stakeholders, managing different values, the role of the evaluator, ethics etc, and practical advice for how to gather and manage data and information, and analyse and utilize the findings. I’m actually using it as the main text for a Master’s paper, but I reckon it is so usable that I will be referring to it for a long time after I have finished studying. All in all a very useful and useable book for anyone working in programme planning and evaluation! Wendy Barry. WWF. | 20/03/08 |
| Simulation Game on World Issues | Sourced by Carol Young. o.s.Earth is the home of the Global Simulation Workshop, an exciting and innovative learning tool for schools, universities, and corporations. A direct descendant of R. Buckminster Fuller’s famous World Game, the Global Simulation Workshop is a 3-hour interactive game that builds critical skills and teaches its participants about global issues.
Developed by o.s's team of experienced educators and researchers over the past three decades, the game has been played by more than 350,000 people from around the world. More than 2,500 educational institutions, organizations, and corporations from 35 countries have used the game to teach their participants about how the world works, and how to make it work better. | 20/03/08 |
| Unit overview - water, our life force | A one page unit planning overview with progress indicators and success criteria. Fits within Social Studies LA. From Christine Morrison ex Pukehau School now EfS adviser Upload file: | 20/03/08 |
| Sustainable Living Challenge Teachers Network. |
Sustainable Living Challenge Teachers Network. This online network of over 600 teachers in Australia is well worth joining. See www.sustainableliving.com.au | 20/03/08 |
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