Next week I will be taking classes for different age groups ranging from 5-10 about Friends of the Earth and the enviornment. Any ideas on how to make it interesting?
2007-05-15 04:40:06 · 6 answers · asked by Heralda 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
Give them a purpose for listening to you such as:
- quiz points at the end of a section
-role play for the older ones. Can they use the information to make a strong argument to convince someone to be more aware of their actions. They could work in pairs with one as a lazy person that can't bothered and the other trying to make them see sense.
-practical tasks for the younger ones e.g. which of these can be recycled? (after you have told them information)
- ask the teacher/head if a particular class could be responsible for feeding back information to the whole school to summarise.
-a competition for each class to come up with the best way to get their parents to be more environmentally friendly using the information you give them during your time.
- praise their good listening
Don't expect them (especially the younger ones) to listen to you for long chunks of time without getting them involved.
Look at the infomation you are going to present and cut it down to its simplest message for the youngest ones with lots of pictures. Are there any stories you could use? If not, you tell a story about two characters in two made up towns lazy town and green town, how they behave and what happens as a result or when one character from one town sees when they visit the other. The children could suggest how the green character can help the characters in lazy town to improve their health and their environment. The children could draw the two towns.
2007-05-20 04:25:56 · answer #1 · answered by K H 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah getting them involved pratically is great... honestly ask the teacher if you can take groups of 2 or 3 outside, and show them things in the garden... .I'd even bring in a green box of things that you can sort through in front of them to show them about recycling... .Get a bag of compost (oh come on I know it sounds a bit sad but its only £4) and ask for two packs of paper cups, and buy around 5-10 packets of cress seeds for example. Then make them plant them in school at take them home. Honestly, for each child, take two paper cups: inner one with drainage holes and the compost/seeds in, and the other outer one to make sure no water... leaks out. Put a green sticker on it, let them take it home and possibly bring it in in a few weeks to find out the results!
Ooh yeah... animals are great on kids: talk about polar bears, penguins... and about the effects of climate change: then theyll listen. And what if you print off a small questionairre that they have to take home and do (only 2/3 short questions). Write on it to tell their parents some of the things theyve learnt today: it will get the message across and impress the parents.
Basically make sure ur not a lecturer: rather do it practically, telling and advising things to do at home... and getting them involved. Dont try the science too much: just get simple points and mainly make them understand and able to do a few green things around the house.
2007-05-15 12:10:21 · answer #2 · answered by ღ♥ღ latoya 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
try coming up with some simple projects that the kids can do at home. Planting a bean seed or a corn seed in a paper cup to make more oxygen or to open dialog about bio-mass and bio-fuels. make a small solar oven and bake some cookies. You'd have to bake them ahead of time and just do a little show and tell. Talk about composting or recycling and re-use that they could do in their homes. Show them vermiculture (composting with worms). Show how a small solar cell can power a fan or a little car. Just make sure they have something to do while you are speaking.Show lots of pictures with cute animals or amazing moving parts. Windmills are cool. Good luck!!!
2007-05-15 11:50:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I guess if you were at Scales Elementary School in Tennessee you'd consider burying them in a landfill for 15 minutes...but otherwise how about, with the teachers' permissions, giving them some sort of inexpensive, packaged edible item while you talk. Then at the end ask them what they are going to do with the leftover waste.
Good luck.
2007-05-15 11:45:48 · answer #4 · answered by CanProf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dont you think talking about aliens to little kids is a bit deep?
2007-05-15 11:48:18 · answer #5 · answered by siany_barny86 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
can you do a craft? take clean garbage and ask them to make something. bring scissors, crayons, and glue and let them use their imaginations. it's a fun way to recycle.
2007-05-15 11:49:05 · answer #6 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋