Please check and reply to comments that you have received.
Awesome to see Lesieli from New Zealand as a feature for this week where she did a drawing challenge and linked to a YouTube tutorial. Well done Lesieli!
Step One: Choose your topic
What are you interested in? Is there a topic you’re passionate about? Or maybe there’s a topic you’re not very familiar with and you’d like to find out more about?
Select one of the environmental topics in the diagram above or choose your own.
Step Two: Find resources
You might need to do a little bit of research to write your post.
👉🏽 Remember: You cannot copy and paste text off another website and use it as your own. Write information in your own words and link to the site you got the information from.
👉🏽 These instructions show how you add a link if your blog is on Edublogs/CampusPress.
Here are some sites you can check out to learn about your topic:
- Earth Day Website: This part of the Earth Day website has some basic information to get started.
- The Sustainable Development Global Goals: Some of these relate to environmental issues and there is lots of information available on The World’s Largest Lesson site.
- Kids Go Global: There is some information about certain environmental issues.
Find any other good sites? Please leave comment and let us know!
Step Three: What could you include in your post?
Your post could include:
- Information about Earth Day 2020. Tell readers that it is on April 22 and what it’s all about.
- An explanation of your chosen environmental issue.
- Why this is an issue that you’re interested in. Did you hear about it on the news? Is it a problem in your local community? Is it something you haven’t heard of but wanted to learn more about?
- Some facts about your issue.
- Tips on how people can help (for example, if your topic is plastic pollution, you might give tips about using cloth shopping bags and avoiding disposable food wrappers).
👉🏽 Don’t forget that a picture always makes a blog post better too! Don’t remember where you can get pictures from? Go back to Week Three.
Step Four: Connect with others when you’ve published your post
As always, an important part of the challenge is to connect with others. You never know what you might learn or who you could connect with!
When you’ve finished your post, choose a couple of blogs to visit and leave a quality comment.
Remember to ask a question and check back to see if they replied to you (most platforms have a box to tick so you can get an email when there is a follow-up comment).
You will find the link to the week 5 participants’ posts on the sidebar of this blog on Tuesday.
Hello Room 14!
ReplyDeleteI'm writing as an 8th grade English and Communications teacher who's trying to connect with a few classes. Our school closed abruptly and without any advance notice. We were in school on March 11 taking our state writing SOL, and around 5:45am the next morning, we received a call that school was closed. The governor of VA has since closed schools through June 10, which would have been our official last day. Our school system has decided NOT to give grades for the 4th quarter, so it's quite a challenge to persuade students to complete our weekly assignments. That said, my Communications class is now joined "virtually" with the other Communications class, and we're on a hunt to connect with other students around the country (and globe) about how we're all dealing with this pandemic's effect on school, socializing, and family.
We'd love to make a connection...a way for our students to see how students around the world are dealing with this.
Would you be up for connecting? We have about 10-12 students between our two classes who are consistently participating virtually. Could you recommend 10-12 student bloggers from your group who'd like to connect? We're hoping to have virtual "pen pals."
Let me know what you think. All the best!
Martha Rombach