Introduction
Earth's Serious Issues
Task
Your Mission!
Raise awareness of one of Earths serious issues. You are competeing to win a $1 miilion grant to donate to a foundation that is working to find solutions to your Earth issue.
1. Choose one of the serious issues that Earth is facing. You are going to be competing agains the other groups for a $1 million grant to donate to a foundation that works to solve your Earth issue!
2. In your groups you will research your issue and collect information about your issue.
3. You will start planning what you each will say and do in your video and make any props you want to include in your video. (pictures, backdrop, signs, outfits, etc.)
3. Your group will create a video. In your video you will discuss facts about your issue chosen and explain why you think you should recieve the $1 million grant to help researchers find a solution to your Earth issue.
4. All students will get to vote for whichever group they think convienced them the most to receive the $1 million grant.
Process
Choose one of the following Earth Issues:
- Air Pollution
- Energy Depletion
- Overflowing Landfills
- Rain Forest Destruction
- Water Pollution
Use the Facts Solutions Worksheet to help you collect facts about your issue and some solutions for your issue.
Use the following websites to help you find information:
Air
The Air That We Breathe
http://whyfiles.org/030air_pollution/
Air Quality: Just for Kids
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/air/kids/Kids_Page.htm
Clean Air Kids: Air Quality
http://www.clean-air-kids.org.uk/airquality.html
What's All the Fuss About Air Pollution?
http://www.hcdoes.org/airquality/kids/Pollution.htm
Protecting Your Health: Air Pollution
http://www.lungusa.org/healthy-air/outdoor/protecting-your-health/
Energy
Energy Quest
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/index.html
Energy Information Administration Kids Page
http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/
Department of Energy for Students & Kids
http://www.energy.gov/forstudentsandkids.htm
Energy Guide for Kids
http://tiki.oneworld.net/energy/energy.html
Energy Star Kids
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=kids.kids_index
Overflowing Landfills
The Rotten Truth About Garbage
http://www.astc.org/exhibitions/rotten/rthome.htm
Trash Facts (from Keep America Beautiful)
http://web.archive.org/web/20040227133904/http://www.kab.org/trashfacts…
Planet Protectors Create Less Waste in the First Place
http://www.epa.gov/osw/education/pdfs/jellyjar.pdf
Garbage: How Can My Community Reduce Solid Waste?
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/garbage/intro.html
Trash and Climate Change
http://www.epa.gov/osw/education/pdfs/k00-001.pdf
Rainforest Distruction
Amazon Interactive
http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html
Take a Walk in the Rain Forest
http://www.pbs.org/tal/costa_rica/rainwalk.html
Rain Forest Rescue
http://www.arborday.org/programs/RainForestRescue.html
Exploring the Tropical Rain Forest
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/explore/valley.htm
Tropical Rainforest Information for Kids
http://kids.mongabay.com/
Water Pollution
Especially for Kids: Clean Water
http://www.oceansidecleanwaterprogram.org/kids.asp
Water Pollution Guide
http://www.water-pollution.org.uk/
Clean Water: Water Pollution
http://www.chewonki.org/cleanwater/water_pollution.asp
The Quality of Our Nation's Water (EPA)
http://www.epa.gov/305b/
Evaluation
Students will be evaluated with the use of a rubric on their teamwork skills: cooperating with others, listening to others in the group, stays on task, accountable for their work, Respectful to others, and uses inside voices.
Students will also be evaluated with the use of a rubric on their academic skills: Including accurate and apporiate facts, think of a solution to their Earth issue, creativiy when making the video, and completed the assignment on time.