Oceans and Climate - Task
Using a selected news article, apply your knowledge from our Fresh and Saltwater Systems Unit, student will form teams of three to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of one concept within the fresh and saltwater systems unit and how it applies to a current issue.
Goal:
Role:
Audience:
Situation:
Project Progression – Each stage must be signed off by your teacher
Product, Performance & Purpose:
Task 1 – Level 1 - Build your background knowledge (Knowledge Building)
Task 2 – Level 2 A - Build detailed knowledge of the topic (Investigating)
Task 3 – Level 2 B - Create a plan for your communication of your knowledge (Planning)
Task 4 – Level 3 - Film and edit your news broadcast (Creating and communicating)
Task 4 – Level 4 - Share your broadcast with your target audience (Sharing and Demonstrating)
Goal:
- Your task is to become and expert and communicate information about a world issue related to the Fresh and Salt Water Systems unit and climate.
- Your basic goal is to effectively build background knowledge, research, link this topic to a concept from the Fresh and Salt Water Systems Science Unit, and report on the chosen global issue.
- The challenge is to script, film and edit a news report communicating this issue including actual interviews
- Work in a group of three to generate a news report to communicate the issue being researched
Role:
- You are journalist with a firm deadline; your boss is expecting you to participate in an investigative journalism piece.
- In teams of three, you have been asked to create a news clip – audio and/or video – on a chosen topic.
- Your job is to…
- Learn about the topic
- Research the topic
- Write a script for the broadcast
- Film the broadcast and use other video clips and still images to support your topic
- Edit your film and present to your audience
- One obstacle to overcome will be to identify the cause of the global issue and what possibilities that can potentially can be done to solve the problem.
Audience:
- Your target audience is the general public.
Situation:
- The setting you find yourself in is a broadcasting studio, and you need to meet a firm publication deadline.
- The challenge involves dealing with connecting a current global issue on oceans and/or climate to current learning in your Science class and then presenting this in an engaging format.
- You will showcase your news piece in class for your journalism colleagues to view.
Project Progression – Each stage must be signed off by your teacher
Product, Performance & Purpose:
Task 1 – Level 1 - Build your background knowledge (Knowledge Building)
- You will complete a pre-planning stage to show your understanding of the global issue and science concept. This pre-planning stage involves:
- Completing a reading comprehension task and graphic organizer in humanities.
- Create a web of the information with questions for further research
- List Vocabulary that is particular to this topic
Task 2 – Level 2 A - Build detailed knowledge of the topic (Investigating)
- Develop a plan for your research
- List the questions you have about the topic
- List resources you could use (work from general to specific)
- Start the research with general information first (ie. Online Encyclopedias, Wikipedia, Online dictionary, …)
- Refine your vocabulary list and add to your web (use a different colour to show new information)
- Researching further information about the topic
Task 3 – Level 2 B - Create a plan for your communication of your knowledge (Planning)
- You will planning stage to communicate your understanding of the global issue and science concept. This planning stage involves:
- Complete the graphic organizer showing the main idea and subtopics of your Issue.
- Sketching out a draft storyboard to plan your broadcast structure.
- Write script for Introduction, body (3 parts) and conclusion
- Collect more supporting information –
- data,
- interviews,
- images
Task 4 – Level 3 - Film and edit your news broadcast (Creating and communicating)
- You will create a news broadcast on your topic. Be sure to include:
- An introduction and overview of your topic as well as the problem associated with your topic
- An interview with an expert in the subject area
- Data that supports the issue
- How the problem can be or is being addressed
Task 4 – Level 4 - Share your broadcast with your target audience (Sharing and Demonstrating)
- You need to present your news clip to your Science class.
- Broadcasts will be showcased with all of your colleagues (peers).
Oceans and Climate - Articles
- Antarctic Glaciers
- Colorando Mines
- Deep-Sea Miners
- Discarded Plastic
- Drugs and Chemicals
- Dwindling Colorado River
- Killed Oysters
- Killer Whales
- Melting Ice
- Sea Stars Along the Pacific Coast
- Sea Stars Succumbing
- Sea Turtles and Plastics
- Uncool in California
- Warm Pacific Waters
- Warmest on Record
- Water Scarcity
- West Coast Starfish