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YouthCaN In the YouthCaN task, students will share their interest in environmental topics and collaborate on projects year round through online forums, video conferencing and meeting at conferences. This project is co-sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History, iEARN , Caretakers of the Earth/USA and a number of high school environmental organizations. |
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Zines The Zines unit includes an introduction, the learning focus, 5 teaching and learning activities, assessment criteria, and resources. Unit description from source: In Zines, students discuss, investigate and evaluate popular print and online media and publish their own work. Building on their interests, students develop skills in researching, gathering information, and writing and presenting different kinds of texts and images through the publishing process. Students use information and communications technology, including the Internet, for researching and for publishing their own work online or in ‘hard copy’ publications. |
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Zulu Chief This task assesses students’ ability to source, contextualize, and corroborate a photograph of a Zulu Chief by American photographer Frank Carpenter. Students must reason about the content and the circumstances of its creation to evaluate its reliability as evidence. Students also must determine what additional information might help corroborate the evidence in the photograph. Resources available for this task include downloadable PDF versions of both the assessment as well as the Rubric with benchmark descriptors. |
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iMagzz - Making Myself Heard In this task, students will create a student magazine on any subject they deem important through writing advertisements, banners, newspaper articles, diary entries, interviews, etc. This task includes: |
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iMagzz-Making Myself Heard In the iMagzz-Making Myself Heard, students will create a magazine of student writing. Students can write articles and news stories, create advertisements and banners, take interviews and pictures, make collages and calenders, write diary entries and poems, or any other means to express their thoughts and feelings on any issue in any creative way. |
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pH The pH task is part of the Hydrosphere Unit from Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE). In this task, students will create mixtures of water samples, soil samples, plants and other natural materials to better understand the importance of pH levels. This task includes:
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