River Pollution in Asia

River Pollution in Asia

Inter-disciplinary learning objectivesDevelop an understanding on impact of socio-

economic factors, life styles on rivers in AsiaDevelop a ICT and communication skills to

interact with their peers in other countries Create webpages depicting river pollution

and its impacts

River Pollution in Asia

Subject-specific learning objectives

GeographyCompare past and present conditions of the rivers in

Yangze, Pearl rivers in China, Ganga,Yamuna, Krishna and Musi rivers in India, Ciliwung river in Indonesia and Kelani river in Sri Lanka

Making a digital (?) map in the website to show rivers and its condition in asia

ICTCollect information on the different rivers by surfing

the internet and other sourcesDevelop an ability to use web 2.0 technologies

River Pollution in Asia

Subject-specific learning objectives

GeographyCompare past and present conditions of the rivers in

Yangze, Pearl rivers in China, Ganga,Yamuna, Krishna and Musi rivers in India, Ciliwung river in Indonesia and Kelani river in Sri Lanka

Making a digital (?) map in the website to show rivers and its condition in asia

ICTCollect information on the different rivers by surfing

the internet and other sourcesDevelop an ability to use web 2.0 technologies

River Pollution in Asia

Description of the PBL Students from China, India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka

collaboratively contribute /create blog(s) about the rivers in their localities. The student may visit or collect information on their local rivers and the changes (nature of river – quality and quantity of water, surrounding environment) occurred over centuries which lead river pollution. The collected information is critically analyzed through classroom and online discussion with their peers to identify major factors contributed the river pollution. The students engage discussion with own peers, inter-school and school from other countries through EC forum to understand causes for river pollution, practices which they can adopt in their life style to reduce river pollution. The output may be in the form of documents / postures / reports / stories / videos were made by each school.

River Pollution in Asia

Activity design1. Brainstorming: collecting information from

various sources about how rivers exists in the past and condition of the present situation through discussion identifying reasons and suggested practices

2. Data collection and discussion3. Preparing document for EC web forum4. Discussion and engaging with web 2.0 tools5. Output making

River Pollution in Asia

ICT and tele-collabboration that we want to use and our adjustification Use EC Website for students to feedback,

sharing, solving problems.Skype for both teachers and students to for

discussion

River Pollution in Asia

Assessment1 Formative assessment for the expected learning objectivesAccording to the expected learning objectives, teachers design questionnaire, checklists for assessment.2 Baseline dataDraw a concept map on river pollution.3 Planned formative assessment and rubricsRubrics, portfolio of students’ work4 Logistic preparation for the assessmentForms and online checklist, questionnaires.

River Pollution in Asia

Our reflectionCommunication platform for all of the four

countries.Synchronizing Time

Members

Chen Shu Lan Nonglinxia Road Primary School, China Dian Novrini Al Azhar 9 Islamic Junior High School

Indonesia Li Nihong Nonglinxia Road Primary School, China Liang Yan East China Normal University, China M.G. Peiris Uva National College of Education, Srilanka M. Rajendran Department of Education, University of

Delhi, India V. Jagadeeshwar Rao EMRC, Osmania University,

Hyderabad, India Yu Yuanjie Nonglinxia Road Primary School, China