Water: Lesson plans/Activities
ERASMUS+ ESD Train the Trainer towards the Green Deal – Educational Resources
Nature Trust – FEE Malta through a KA122-VET project set out to train as many of its educators as possible about three main themes highly relevant in Education for Sustainable Development. The first mobility was aimed at giving educators more confidence in using technology and adapting its use to promote ESD topics. It mainly consisted of learning to produce animations, that is short videos, to drive a message across. They had the opportunity to interact with other educators from different countries and different ages, discuss different approaches and perspectives and also through hands on workshops produce such animations. Participants were then asked to share their experience with other educators to widen the exposure experience. Those more adventurous later went a step further and guided their students to do the same. Here are the resulting animations: Learning to use Stop Motion for animations – part of an ERASMUS+ project Sustainable Mobility Animation produced by Ms Censina Curmi & Ms Stephania Gauci. This animation focuses promoting the use of sustainable means of transport while keeping our environment safe and clean. https://youtu.be/LyIQkmIKIqI Pauli’s First Day at School – Being an Eco-Warrior Ms Censina Curmi together with the Eco-Schools Committee at St Paul’s Missionary College created this animation using Clipchamp to share with other students and the whole community. Their Eco-Code is… S – Switch off the lights P – Pick up waste M – Make it happen C – Change the world Together we can make a better place. https://youtu.be/LGlV2xsr1h8 Farm Animals Ms Melissa Grima, Mr Christian Saliba and Ms Valeria Caruana from St Francis School, Victoria, Gozo produced this animation on their second attempt! A lot of info about farm animals on the Maltese Islands. https://youtu.be/Pc7R7-eYG5M The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Ms Josephine Jesse Mercieca and Ms Lorna Camilleri produced this animation as a first attempt. The aim is to raise awareness about single used items and how they end up in the sea and how they effect the bird and sea life. Wildlife mistakenly eat garbage thinking it is food. They are asking for our help. https://youtu.be/8PI2yisPJGA Using pallet wood to build a wall garden – reusing and upcycling Ms Josephine Jesse Mercieca, from Gozo College Sir Arturo Mercieca Rabat Primary School produced this animation to show how the EkoSkola Committee used discarded wood to build wooden pots for a wall garden. https://youtu.be/lueyL7-P9TE Save marine life with Ceku the Turtle Litter – damage and how long it stays in the environment Ms Melissa Grima, Mr Christian Saliba and Ms Valeria Caruana from St Francis School, Victoria, Gozo created this stop motion video to help children understand the damage done by litter when it ends up in the environment and how long it takes to breakdown. https://youtu.be/0G1oG7v-4ds 7. Green Dreams – New beginnings Ms Judith Smith and Ms Karen Vella Pace from St Nicholas College, Rabat Middle School created this stop motion to show that we can always improve drab places by adding greenery – Plants, trees, flowers attract insects and wildlife, making places attractive and …
MoreMediterranean Environmental Learning – Free online training courses
Several self paced online training courses are available in this catalogue thanks to MIO-ECSDE. You just have to sign up for free and choose the courses you wish to do. Catalogue includes various topics such as marine litter, odour pollution, wetlands, waste management, pollutants, waste water…
MoreCoastal Resilience Education Toolkit
7 activities related to climate change, water, seashore and effects by humans. Mostly for older students… Activity 1: The Human Impacts Game Activity 2: The Mystery of the Disappearing Shells Activity 3: Become an Ecological Engineer Activity 4: Neighborhood Water Budget Activity 5: Tallying Up Temperature Rise Activity 6: Water Quality Testing at Home Activity 7: Waterfront Field Lab Lesson Plan
MoreMultimedia animation “The impact of our food”
This multimedia animation is a card game in which you have to sort foods according to one criteria among three: the carbon footprint (greenhouse gas emissions), the water use or the land use. Using this game, you will be able to compare the environmental footprint of different common foods. At the end of the game, you can download a pdf file containing all the cards in a printable version to play in offline mode.
MoreUnderstanding Food and Climate Change – An Interactive Guide
Understanding Food and Climate Change: An Interactive Guide explores the links between what we grow, eat, and throw away, and the impact of climate change. But why explore the relationships between food and climate change? Because food is an essential human need and offers the potential for personalizing climate change. Food production depends on natural resources that are linked to climate and weather. Understanding the global food system can help your students comprehend how personal choices about food can impact climate change. By talking about food, we can demonstrate why climate change matters to all of us. The link below leads to an interactive e-book with loads of information and activities. The Center for Ecoliteracy offers a no-cost suite of digital education resources that explore the fundamental relationships between climate change and the food systems that sustain human life. These publications consider the potential for food systems-oriented climate change mitigation and adaptation. The first two resources in the suite are Understanding Food and Climate Change: An Interactive Guide and Understanding Food and Climate Change: A Systems Perspective. Understanding Food and Climate Change: An Interactive Guide incorporates text, video, photography, and an array of interactive experiences to deliver climate science alongside multicultural, interdisciplinary viewpoints. Its aim is to promote awareness and understanding of global climate issues, their intersection with food systems, and promising strategies for addressing climate change. This resource includes suggested activities and connections to both the Next Generation Science Standards and the National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies Thematic Strands. The companion publication, Understanding Food and Climate Change: A Systems Perspective, is a collection of essays that addresses topics that educators will encounter when teaching about food and climate change. These essays offer subjects for class discussion or student research and provide extensive resources for further investigation. This resource applies systems thinking to inspire readers to think in terms of systems, both human and natural. Used together, these publications serve as a strong foundation for developing and deepening our understanding of how we interact with nature. They are valuable resources for anyone engaged in shaping a more positive future. Copyright © 2018 Center for Ecoliteracy 2150 Allston Way, Suite 270 Berkeley, CA 94704-1377
MoreEyes on the Earth – NASA Climate Kids
All about climate change – weather and climate, air, sea, freshwater, carbon, energy, plants and animals and technology and much more. All in an easy to understand setup and fun way to learn about. Global climate change made easy and fun to learn about through playing, making, knowing, keeping, watching, dreaming and teaching!!
MoreSaving Water, Saving Money and Saving the Earth – Water Conservation Guide
Fresh water is a limited resource and while 70% of the Earth is covered in water, only 2% of it is fresh water. As fresh water becomes scarcer, it will not only become more difficult to get fresh, clean water, but it will also become more expensive. Conserving water is a great way to reduce costs while doing something positive for the environment and future generations.
MoreIt’s Time to Help! – Joint effort between Eco-Schools to produce resources
The major stimulus to launch the project „It´s Time to Help” (ITTH) was the idea of international cooperation among European schools involved in Eco-School Programme. All these schools have realized the methodology concept of “Seven Steps of Eco-School”; however, each Eco-School under the conditions of their country and their climate regions.
MoreEAThink 2015 – Food Learning units
“EAThink2015 – eat local, think global” is a project that aims to enhance European students and teachers critical understanding and active engagement on global development challenges with a specific focus on food security and sovereignty, sustainable food systems and smallholder farming.
MoreWater Explorer
Water Explorer is a fun, inspiring and educational programme that empowers thousands of students across the world to lead joint action on water issues for their schools and communities.
MoreCoReflect – Collaboration and reflection
Project CoReflect (Title: Digital support for Inquiry, Collaboration, and Reflection on Socio-Scientific Debates) is a three year (2008-2011) research program, funded by the European Commission, under the FP7 Science in Society program. Bringing together eight diverse and multi-disciplinary teams from seven European states, the project members promoted evidence-based practice in science teaching and learning, by collaborating to iteratively design, enact, critique, and validate problem-based innovative inquiry learning environments.
MoreConsumer Classroom – also in Maltese…
Consumer Classroom is a new collaborative website for teachers about consumer education. It provides free, high quality resources for teachers along with interactive and collaborative tools to help teachers prepare lesson plans to share with students and other teachers from across the EU. Sign Up now on www.ConsumerClassroom.eu
MoreDrinking water – Tap water or bottled water
In this lesson, students are asked to consider the sustainability of a common, everyday practice (choosing the source of their drinking water). They will use sustainability criteria and research data to work collaboratively in evaluating the truth about the two drinking water options. By doing so, they will learn that calling something sustainable is not just a guess, but is based on a model that results in conclusive and measurable results.
MoreWater & Electricity Consumption Monitor
Do you usually note down meter readings to calculate how much electricity and water is consumed per month in your school? Want a helping hand? Below there is an attachment – an Excel sheet initially developed by Mr Saviour Tabone. It is being further developed to also monitor waste, transport and tree planting in order to be able to provide numerical data. All you have to do is to type in the meter reading for electricity and water at the end of each month in the orange cells and automatically you will get how many units were used up and a bar chart/graph comparing consumption between months.
MoreAlter Aqua Resources – Water Across the Curriculum
The Alter Aqua educational material is the result of a fruitful cooperation between the EkoSkola Team and MEdIES team from Greece with the ambition to raise awareness and sensitise the educational community on the very crucial issue of Non-Conventional Water Resources across the Mediterranean, and particularly in the Maltese Islands.
MorePoeżija dwar l-użu għaqli tal-ilma
Din il-poeżija inkitbet wara li l-istudenti tal-Iskola tal-Furjana mil-Kulleġġ San Ġorġ Preca identifikaw modi kif ma jinħeliex ilma u dawn inġabru f’poeżija bis-saħħa tal-iskrivana tal-iskola stess!
MorePresentation about Water Conservation – compliments: Catch the Drop Campaign
This presentation was prepared and shared by Catch The Drop Campaign within the Ministry for Resources and Rural Affairs. Slides include information about the following topics: Water use Saving water Why should we conserve water? Ideas to save water Water usage habits Facts about water (Did you know?) Global water shortage Water scarcity Water as a raw material Saving water without buying new appliances Reusing water Why we should not waste water
MoreThe Earth Dog Story – Earth Dog returns to Save the Environment
The Earth Dog Story, first published in 1992, returns as an app in iTunes and an eBook as part of the U.S. Department of Energy environmental outreach program with Weekly Reader. Earth Dog is a superhero who teaches kids about taking care of the environment.
MoreEarly Childhood Activities for a Greener Earth
This book by Patty Born Selly, Published by Redleaf Press helps to educate young children about the environment through experience and play. These activities encourage children to develop a sense of wonder, curiosity, and joy for nature.
MoreRoad to Rio + 20 workbook – Activities and Lesson plans
This publication is designed to introduce young people to the issues that will be central to Rio+20, by first providing you with a useful context of the project (Part 1 -Overview) and then moving forward to what you and the young people you work with can do as part of a classroom or youth group activity (Part2 – Activities & Lessonplans).
MoreSave Our Water website
A website packed with information – how to get real about water. Ways and means to save water, how to build a water wise garden, fun ways for children to save water, and loads of water wise games.
MoreTake 2: The Student’s Point of View
The Take2 Youth Media Program takes advantage of today’s youthful fascination with technology to motivate active learning in environmental science, English, and media literacy. Working individually or collaborating in teams, students create short documentaries or public service announcements that are designed to inform, entertain, or advocate on issues illustrated by the footage provided.
MoreCatch the Drop Campaign – HSBC Water Programme and Ministry of Energy and Health
Without water, there would be no life on our planet. It is a basic requirement for all life. Yet water supplies are facing increasing demands from users. It has become a limited and vulnerable resource which is vital to protect.
MoreEkoSkola f’Tagħna t-Tfal – Jannar 2012
Rain water. Where does it go? Is it collected in reservoirs or valleys? Or does it run of to the sea? This story is aimed to raise the children’s curiosity about all this. How can we collect rain water?
MoreGames Page on the United States Environmental Protection Agency
This webpage contains links to loads of games, videos and quizzes related to the environment, energy, water, mystery solving, science, recycling, waste and much more…
MoreWhich Switch? Game – Switch Campaign by OPM
The Office of the Prime Minister provided EkoSkola with giant size ‘snakes and ladders’ canvas games. Instead of the usual ladder there is an energy saving bulb whilst the snake has been replaced by a bolt of lightning indicating an electric shock (for those who are not energy and water conscious!). It has also hints how to use up less electricity and water…
MoreThe very hungry school – A whole week’s work on consumption
‘The Very Hungry School’ story and associated worksheet provide a useful resource for literacy and maths work, as well as offering good preparation for ‘The Very Hungry School’ online pupil discussion.
MoreEarth Day Network
Teach about the history of the environmental movement with Earth Day Network’s newest curriculum unit. This online resource for all ages and users provides lesson plans, activity ideas, and digital multimedia resources for the classroom. http://www.earthday.org
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