Participate on a campus event: Jane Goodall's Talk "Origins: Life, Universe, and Everything"

Realize the origins of life and understand the importance of protecting the environment we live in.

Task Description:

Talk is live or can be watched online here.

In-Class Storytelling and Follow-Up Discussions here.

(p.s. had trouble inserting images.)

 

Task Type:
need to know
Task Focus:
reflection
Task Time:
20 minutes

Files

Carbon Footprint Interview with the members of the "West Oasis" club

Learn new vocabulary related to environmental protection and compare and analyze the results of the American and Chinese students.

Task Description:

1. Interview Prep: Make a vocab list and interview peers (among the American students)

2. Interview Report: Interview the members of the "West Oasis" club

 

 

Goal: Calculate the Carbon Footprint and Summarize the results.

 

  1. On WeChat, your sub-group, “...CF 访谈”, in Chinese ask each other questions (or type) to complete the Carbon Footprint Calculator (1. 住宅、2. 交通、3. 生活、4. 绿色习惯). Use your question pool as a reference.

  2. Fill in your partner’s answers, take  screenshots (4 in total), and create TWO slides to record the interview results after wechatting your partner.

    1. Slide 1: 4 screenshots

    2. Slide 2: Add up the numbers from the four aspects, and fill in:

      1. 一年排放CO2: ???? (吨)

      2. 全球气温会因此升高 ???? (摄氏度/年)

      3. 除去世界人均森林,您1年排放的CO2还需 ???? 棵树用10年来抵偿!

  3. Complete the interview and slides by Sun 5 pm.

 

3. Enter the data and analyze the interview results here.

  1.  

Task Type:
scaffolding
Task Focus:
content
Task Time:
2 hours

Files

Interview with the President of "West Oasis"

Understand what the president will share regarding the questions you asked and improve your listening.

Task Description:

Goal: Understand what the president said regarding the questions you asked and improve your listening.

 

    1. Create 2-3 Slides

      1. Slide 1: Go to your part in the video and transcribe her answers into Chinese. See the next slide for your part.

      2. Slide 2: List 5-8 words you have learned in your part or other parts

      3. Slide 3: List follow-up questions (if any)

    2. Complete the self-reflection AFTER YOU HAVE CREATED YOUR SLIDES here. You can see the content of the self reflection in the Slide 5, but please submit your responses via the google form.

    3. In-Class Discussions on the Presidents' Questions
      1. 1. 你们觉得在校园里面,关于guan1yu2, about提倡ti2chang4, advocate环保,宣传xuan1chuan2, promote环保的最好方式fang1shi4, way是什么?

        1.  

      2. 2. 你认为在你平常生活中,做的哪些事情是关于环保的?

        1.  

 

Task Type:
driving question
Task Focus:
interaction
Task Time:
2 hours

Files

Team Roles and Their Performance Criteria

Performing in teams and within a community

Task Description:

Work allocation slides here.

Files

Final Product Presentation

Present the website content

Task Description:

 

Present an action plan published on a website here (under construction).

Files