Water: a cross curriculum approach
CROSS - CURRICULUM LESSON ON THE SUBJECT
"THE WATER"
GRADE: 5th (11 years old)
COGNITIVE OBJECTS:
Language, Natural History, Mathematics, Computers, Art crafts, Music
TRAINING OBJECTIVES:
Make the students:
v realise the importance of water in our life
v know the multiple uses of water
v locate the reasons and the consequences of pollution of water
v practise in written and oral speech
v express themselves through activities of aesthetic education
v familiarize themselves with the search of information locating addresses in Internet
APPROXIMATE REQUIRED TIME:
The particular lesson is multidimensional and it could last through all the school year. The real duration of program depends on how the schoolteacher will handle this lesson but also on the behaviour of students.
STARTING LINE:
The chapter in the book of Physics, relevant to the water. Any other sources referring to intense meteorological phenomenon (e.g flood, the pollution of the see etc)
ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTIVE MATERIAL:
Encyclopaedias, photographs and videocassettes relative to the subject, articles from newspapers or magazines referring to water’s attributes, art craft materials (colours, dough, notepad of painting), cassettes or cd’s with songs about water (for the sea, the rivers etc), addresses in the Internet, geophysical maps of region and planet, photographic machine, transparencies
PREPARATION:
The students can be separated in teams and each will process a thematic unit (usefulness of water, pollution of water, cleaning of water, collection of songs, fables etc, the lack of water in other planets)
INDICATIVE ACTIVITIES:
ü Collection of information on water from encyclopaedias, other forms (newspapers, periodically) but also from the Internet.
ü Collection of photographs, pictures on the subject water.
ü Student’s photographs focusing in water.
ü Using all that material, students can make a collage and decorate the class
ü The students may also prepare a questionnaire that concerns the pollution of water (see pollution of some aquatic resource of region …). The questionnaire can be filled by both students of big grades and by residents of region.
ü Students may edit the answers of questionnaires and create a statistical representation in manuscript or in the computer
ü Students may also present tables with the all reasons of pollution, with comparisons and statistical representations (graphics, pie-diagram), using the computer.
ü Students can also visits (when it is feasible) rivers, lakes, hydroelectric dams, aqueduct.
ü They can also take action and help cleaning a beach or a river side
ü They can also help in sensitizing rest students of the school, by hanging their photographical material, statistical tables and their action on school’s walls.
ü Collection of songs, films, poems, fables that are referred to the water can be reproduced by school choir, in a special fest about the value of water
Ø Cinematographic films related to the water as:
Ø Earth and water by Panoy Karkanevatoy
Ø Drop in the ocean by Helen Alexandraki
Ø Tepid water by Sohej Jmamoyra (Japanese production)
Ø Speechless water by Sabiha Sumar (Pakistan - German production)
EVALUATION:
The evaluation is advisable and adequate through all phases of the project. Questionnaires, oral discussion and other forms of evaluation can be used
ATTACHED MATERIAL:
Ø Transparencies on the subject water
Photos regarding water in doc. file
Useful addresses in the internet
http://www.plefsis.gr/nero.htm
http://www.wef.org/
http://www.thewaterpage.com/
http://www.unicef.gr/oldpress/2001/12-2001.htm
http://www.epa.gov/water/
http://www.bsa.gr/com/index2/water/text/tonero.asp
http://www.ornithologiki.gr/life/pylos-evrotas/action/empl_sx.htm
http://physics4u.gr/articles/2003/spiritmission.html
http://physics4u.gr/news/2003/scnews829.html
http://tech.pathfinder.gr/tech/565.html
http://tech.pathfinder.gr/tech/565.html
http://216.32.80.41/environment/water_urls.htm
http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/waterlib.html
http://www.digitaldoc.gr/med/pub/topics/hatziminas/nero.htm
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
§ The official book of Physics (Greek Ministry of Education) "I search and discover" for the use of the 5th grade
§ The assisting book of schoolteacher about The official book of Physics (Greek Ministry of Education) "I search and discover" for the use of the 5th grade
§ Encyclopaedia Papyrus -Larusse -Britannica
§ Greek Mythology (Edition Athens)
§ Internet
§ Cd "I search and discover"– Transparencies of the Greek Ministry of Education
Europe’s rivers
The Mediterranean Sea
Beauty of the sea world