LEVEL:
Form 3 (Intermediate)
TIME:
60 minutes
AIMS:
- To find main ideas on a website.
2. To practise the skill of transferring information in the correct location in the worksheet.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- One computer per group of three students.
- Internet connection
- Web Browser
- Windows Media Player
Websites:
- Class activity website:
http://www.sandiego.gov/environmental-services/recycling/consumer.shtml#redemption
2. Recycling program video:
http://www.sandiego.gov/environmental-services/recycling/videos.shtml
3. Suggested website:
http://dictionary.reference.com/
4. Follow-up Activity: (Pages 10 & 11)
http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/education/pdfs/k00-001.pdf
PREPARATION:
- Locate sites related to recycling solid waste.
- Using the information on the site, prepare a lesson plan and worksheet.
PROCEDURE:
- Teacher shows a video to the class on a recycling program of what can be recycled, how to recycle used products and what happens to the products after they are put in recycled bins.
- Teacher asks students what they have seen in the video and the importance of recycling.
- Teacher discusses briefly of the topic for the day.
- Teacher gives a few minutes for the students to form their own groups of three and to locate a computer.
- Teacher gives each group a worksheet.
- Teacher informs students to complete the worksheet by finding the information in the website given within the allocated time.
- Each student in the group must play his/her role and help each other.
- During this progression, students are told to note any complicated vocabulary and find the meanings in a suggested website.
- Teacher facilitates’ and monitors’ each group’s progress.
- After the time is up, answers and difficult words are discussed together.
- Teacher concludes the lesson by highlighting the importance of the 3Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Follow-up Activity:
Worksheets are distributed to students. They are required to follow the instructions and play the game with friends. They are required to bring their decorated "masterpiece" next week.