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What did the pupils learn in the end?
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Content-related level
- More than one theme/issue that has to do with our environment → diverse of issues that influence the environment.
- Through working on a specific text they gained some expert knowledge in one field
- They were enthusiastic about the Tessla (modern electricity car) = modern environmentally friendly solutions
- Partly they explained the learned content to other pupil (presentation hours)
- The Fairtrade plain chocolate is for the most okay to eat (learned about the production conditions)
- were very interested in the plastic and meat issue and understood the main connection to their daily consumption
- Everyone can contribute something to our environment → environmental promise animated them to look for things that they can change in every-day life
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Social-related level
- “Teachers” can be friends no enemies
- Showing more individuality to us after the first day
- Group work is a lot of fun
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How did they learn well?
- In groups/ teamwork → do own presentation
- Through videos and pictures
- Stories
- presenting own topic
- writing (well… some pupil did not know what they have written…!)
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WHERE?
- Group desks
- Outside
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They learned through
- Listening
- Talking
- Seeing
- Tasting (chocolate)
- active experience (driving with a Tessla)
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What really sticks in their mind?
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For a longer period
- own environmental promise (they can see their promise in the the Guinness book of records)
- Themes they worked out in the group
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For life
- the video: “When birds eat plastic”
- the electricity car “Tessla"
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What did the pupil touch most of all?
- Enthusiastic about the Tessla
- Touched by the birds video
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What kind of work did we do?
- Groupwork ( longer time period)
- Single person working (short periods)
- Team working (longer periods)
- Talking circle
- Games (name game)
- Presentation with an individual poster
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What was not well received?
- Talking circles where everyone is invited to say something about their well-being (other example: Why they have chosen this project?)
- “Hopefully each pupil can take something along with him” (Eyes rolling)
- plain chocolate (partly too bitter → most of them would not buy this chocolate)
- no game outside