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Diary: Morning
Session
1) Brainstorm actions that are 'helpful' or 'harmful' to the environment.
Give children a piece of paper with the headings: "Helpful to
the environment" and "Harmful to the environment."
With older pupils this could be refined to focus on activities in School
or related to water-wise actions. (A useful website to use with pupils
for this is: www.waterinschool.com especially
information in the 'save water' section. Here a lively cartoon; 'Sam's
waterwise day' is followed by a quiz)
2) Introduce
the idea of planning/designing a board game based on these helpful/harmful
actions.
Show a basic example of a board game (see resources section) and discuss
ways of improving it.
Possible improvements could be…
- Instead of writing
inside each square, make 'chance' cards that say what you have done
(whether environmentally friendly or unfriendly) and how far forwards
or backwards you will have to go.
- Design an appropriate
logo/icon for a helpful/harmful action.
- Develop the idea
used in snakes and ladders, perhaps if the game is based on water conservation
ideas, this might involve travelling up a fountain and down a waterfall.
- Instead of being
in a grid format, try creating a course or journey to follow, perhaps
ending up at the recycling centre.
- Make appropriate
counters for enough players to use eg. a dustbin, a bottle, a crisp
packet etc.
Allow time to try
out each game and make any necessary adjustments. Then ask each group
to explain how to play their game or write a set of rules.
Remind children that
the main purpose of this activity is to show that they understand the
concept of being environmentally friendly or unfriendly by using many
different examples of each in their game, not necessarily to make the
prettiest counters (although of course thoughtful, careful presentation
is always a bonus!)
Let different groups
of children play each others' games and then evaluate them; 'the best
thing about your game was the…', 'if you had more time, perhaps you
could have…..to improve your game'
Keep the games for
use during wet playtimes!
Diary: Afternoon
Session
Repeat the low impact
lunchbox investigation (Day 1), having given prior warning at home so
that efforts can have been made to pack it using more environmentally
friendly principles.
Complete the recording sheet (see resources) and then make comparisons
to previous data (using per person figures to ensure fairness).
Possible Follow-up
Activities
Compare the data that your class recorded with that of other schools.
Right click here to save this file to disc, then
open in Information Magic:
Low Impact Lunch database
Interpret the data using
Database Enquiry Questions
(Microsoft Word Document)
More detailed information about this activity can be found in the Joint
Geography and ICT unit.
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