Welcome to our second unit: Class 9 (8K March 23rd, 8P&8Q March 24th) 1. Checking your Appendix comments on MB At this point you should be done with the 5-6 questions you completed in the appendix. You can check the comments in MB. Reminders: the questions need to be helping you create a good piece… Continue reading G8 Power of Expression A
Category: Social & sustainable design
Ghost Fishing
We often mention the importance of doing things for the environment. Little things make a difference, you write. But often, we become discouraged because we think our actions do not really matter. However, last week I was fortunate to meet Raul Alvarez. He has an organization called ghost fishing that really makes a difference on the oceans… Continue reading Ghost Fishing
Climate Change Resources
Introduction Resources for modelling Calculate your Carbon Footprint “Causes and Effects of Climate Change”, National Geographic. Area 1: Agriculture, Deforestation, Meat production “We need Biodiversity-based Agriculture to solve the climate crisis” Vandana Shiva in Global Research “Why traditional knowledge is the key to truly sustainable agriculture” Nathan Einbinder. “Deforestation of the Amazon is up 20%,… Continue reading Climate Change Resources
Shelter designs
Duffy Design creates a shelter that can be assembled with a screw driver. UNCHR designs for shelter. Find here the link to the guide, some of the designs included in the guide are these: Emergency shelters made with paper, here. Ikea refugee shelter: 15 shelter ideas in this video:
Y3 Disaster shelter A
Please find below our student guide for Criteria A. You will be able to find here all you will need to complete your report. Have a look at the rubrics since they have changed from last year. We will now be using the Year 3 rubric instead of Year 1. https://issuu.com/eidersuso_teaching/docs/1920_disastershelter_studentguide_a Other resources to complete… Continue reading Y3 Disaster shelter A
Plastic as glue
Don’t recycle
Instruments made from trash
Young musicians from a Paraguayan slum play Mozart on instruments constructed entirely from recycled materials pulled from the garbage dump their homes are built on. Also Trashbeatz recycles materials to make their instruments and calls themselves “the most ecofriendly band in the world.”
Schooling the World
Interesting documentary about education in remote places of the planet. Children are leaving their villages to go get a better education in the big cities. An education in English and computers and useful things that will assure them a better future. What was it a better future? Is being a doctor or an engineer a… Continue reading Schooling the World
