Name
Plastics in my life: profit or loss?
Topic
Environmental Education
Learning time
6 hours
Designed time
9 hours and 20 minutes
Size of class
20 students at the age of 17
Description
: "Plastics in my life: profit or loss?" In this PBL students will learn about plastics. Plastics are dominating our lives. What are the benefits and the consequences of their use? Are they a local or a universal problem? What kind of problems did they cause? Who suffers the most? Is there a connection between plastics and pollution? What can be done? What can you do?
Aims
• Students will investigate, navigate in the internet, read, collaborate with their fellow students, discuss and develop critical thinking. • Students will learn what human activities are related to plastics. • They will find out the consequences of plastic litter on the ecosystem and human health. • They will raise environmental awareness. • They will be careful with their ecological footprint.
Outcomes
Affective learning outcomes, Knowledge, Application, Synthesis, Psychomotor skills
Editor
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2. Developing effective collaboration for PBL 2.6 P2P - Building your PBL Learning Design What do you know about plastics?
270 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    40
    5X4
    0
    I will separate students in 4 groups using Team up tool. Collaborate with your fellow students. Go to the school library and search for info about the history of plastic. Navigate into the internet to find out how plastic litter item is covered in national and international web pages. Watch the video: "Our Plastic Our Problem" http://youtu.be/0g_lpmcOyWk Search for another relevant videos.
  • Discuss
    30
    5X4
    0
    Discuss with your team about the results of your investigation. When did they enter in our lives? What are the qualities of plastics? What are the disadvantages of plastics?
  • Collaborate
    60
    5X4
    0
    Starting from your desk as a center, make an imaginary circle of 2m diameter around you. Count how many plastic objects are there in the circle. Include plastics that you carry on your clothes, and in your schoolbags. Imagine a story of the journey of a plastic bag. Collaborate with your fellow students and write a story of a creature who is suffering from the use of plastics. Before you start your story make a research on the creature’s behavior and eating habits. Use mystorybook app.
  • Practice
    40
    5X4
    0
    Can you think of a game that you could play with your team using plastic items?
  • Produce
    100
    5X4
    0
    Take some pictures of plastic litter at your school. Can you imagine where could this litter be in the next week-ten-a hundred years? Make a poster with the photos. Collaborate and make a presentation on your research findings and present it to your school and upload it to the school web page.
Notes:
Resources linked: 0
3. Developing student-driven activities for PBL 3.5 P2P - Building your PBL Learning Design Plastic creations
250 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    30
    5X4
    0
    Read about reusing and recycling plastic. Find info for plastic litter management and a plastic recycling plant. Watch relevant videos about reducing, reusing and recycling plastics.
  • Collaborate
    50
    5X4
    0
    Collaborate with your team and think how you can reuse plastic. Create a Business Model concerning plastic creations with plastic waste products.
  • Discuss
    40
    5X4
    0
    Discuss with your peers on a solution about plastics that could become a business idea. Create a simple Lean Canvas. https://canvanizer.com/new/lean-canvas (For example: This could be a second hand shop with reusable plastic products, an exhibition with art from plastic or a plastic recycling plant at school). I am not going to make suggestions to my students to let them use their imagination and be innovating.
  • Investigate
    40
    5X4
    0
    Investigate the following issues: • Why plastics are a problem? • Why do customers have to reuse them? • What solutions can you propose to them? • Why should customers buy reusing plastic products? • What are the advantages of this purchase? • What environmental problems can be solved buying reused plastic products?
  • Practice
    40
    5X4
    0
    Create your business. (For example: Create an exhibition with art from plastic and sell your exhibits to your peers). I will be there for my students to guide them, advice, help and support them but I am not going to make suggestions to let them use their imagination and be innovating. Make your products attractive so customers will buy them.
  • Produce
    50
    0
    Create a brochure containing information about reducing plastic and plastic litter management to inform your customers why they should buy your products and what they can gain. Advertise your business to your school peers. Look for customers in the local community.
Notes:
Resources linked: 0
4. Assessing PBL 4.5 P2P - Your PBL Learning Design Assessment activities throughout my PBL "Plastics in my life: profit or loss”?
40 minutes)
  • Investigate
    10
    0
    In the end my students evaluate the project and their participation in it for feedback. We discuss what they have learned and how will they use this knowledge in the future. They review their classmates and their classmates review them. One group evaluates the other. I have created three samples of evaluation: Collaborative Work Skills Using Rubrics, Assessing my PBL "Plastics in my life: profit or loss"? and Self-evaluation using Google forms.
  • Collaborate
    10
    5X4
    1
    1. Evaluation of Collaborative Work Skills of the PBL "Plastics in my life: profit or loss"? Using Rubrics for PBL Assessment. http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=ShowRubric&rubric_id=2633390& • Contributions • Quality of Work • Time-management • Problem-solving • Attitude • Focus on the task • Preparedness • Pride • Monitors Group Effectiveness • Working with Others
  • Discuss
    10
    5X4
    1
    2. Assessing PBL: "Plastics in my life: profit or loss"? Using Google forms http://goo.gl/forms/TzjaJOlfds6gWLjB2 • In which group did you belong? • What did you appreciate about this project? • Which part of the project did you like the most? Module 1: What do you know about plastics? • Which part of the project did you most enjoy? Module 2 Plastic creations • Which ICT and web 2.0 tool did you use? • How did you use the internet and web tools? • What is true about you? • What is the most valuable thing you learned thanks to this project? • How do you feel about your participation in the project? • Would you like to participate in other project like this one in the future? • What would you change in future projects to make them more interesting?
  • Practice
    10
    5X4
    1
    3. Self-evaluation of the PBL "Plastics in my life: profit or loss"? using Google forms https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YNBfL7BS_WvBoMelQkB97koI9jqaKy66r4kCB7frI5w/viewform a. I participate actively with information, ideas, questions and arguments in discussions and other work of the group. Not particularly 1 2 3 4 5 Yes, definitely b. I recognize, commend and encourage the efforts of other members. Not particularly 1 2 3 4 5 Yes, definitely c. I offer help to my team members when in need. Not particularly 1 2 3 4 5 Yes, definitely d. I ask for help and ideas from other team members, when I'm in trouble. Not particularly 1 2 3 4 5 Yes, definitely e. I am consistent timetables and deliver my work on time. Not particularly 1 2 3 4 5 Yes, definitely f. I am responsible and fulfill my obligations adequately. Not particularly 1 2 3 4 5 Yes, definitely g. I contribute positively to easing tensions, conflicts and the search for synthetic solutions. Not particularly 1 2 3 4 5 Yes, definitely h. I accept and discuss the criticism and different opinions and ways of looking for synthesis, avoiding sterile confrontations. Not particularly 1 2 3 4 5 Yes, definitely
Notes:
*In my LD you will find attached my rubric and Google forms. http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=ShowRubric&rubric_id=2633390& http://goo.gl/forms/TzjaJOlfds6gWLjB2 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YNBfL7BS_WvBoMelQkB97koI9jqaKy66r4kCB7frI5w/viewform
Resources linked: 0

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