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2 HELLO AGAIN! 1. So you made it through the first phase, great! Now let s see how you tackle what s next. If you haven t been on board before, not to worry - here are some instructions to get you on your way: There are three EduCycle task sections; Effects, Causes and Decisions. Each section of tasks will appear on our site as a free, downloadable PDF, every 2 weeks. 2. Each section consists of three tasks: Research Create Share The Guiding Questions are there to provide ideas and inspiration, and are meant to be used with consideration to your students age and level. They have been divided into three categories Easy, Average and Challenging. We trust you are the right person to judge what your kids are made of, so pick one that suits their level of understanding and research abilities best! The instructions consist of the Teacher s Guideline and the Student Tasks. There are also some Hot Tips sprinkled around the instructions to give you ideas of how to guide your students through the tasks. We d love to see what you get up to, so please share your students work with us! Share on any social media channel with #EduCycleExchange.

3 CAUSES Teacher s Guideline 1 RESEARCH You ve divided your class into six groups in the previous task, now give each group one of these climate change causes to work on: Power Production Industrial Production Waste Treatment Housing Transportation Agriculture Give them the tasks on the opposite page, and the guiding questions related to their cause, with consideration to their age and level. Let the groups answer the guiding questions and research their cause, and especially how the cause is evident in your home region. HOT TIP Please see p.10 for Useful Links, that your students might find helpful during research. 2 CREATE Have the groups discuss (or decide for them) a creative way of presenting their cause of climate change. The guiding questions can be used as a source of ideas and inspiration. Ways of presentation could be: A mind map A research project poster A poster A poem A comic A rap song A drawing An essay Ways of presentation can be varied within your class, but should be in a concrete form, so that they can easily be photographed and shared on social media. 3 SHARE Share your students work on social media with #EduCycle and track any comments/discussion they receive. Have each group present their work to class. Host an interactive discussion, comparing the climate change causes different groups found during their research. HOT TIP Are your students parents active in social media? Notify them of your project, and invite them to join your climate change discussion online!

4 CAUSES Student s Tasks 1 2 RESEARCH You now have one cause of climate change to research. Look to your guiding questions for support and inspiration. How is your cause present in your home region? If necessary, you may research the topic using different information sources for support. CREATE Go ahead and start your creative work! Present how your cause is detectable in your home region in a creative way. 3 SHARE Present your work to your class. How are the causes of climate change you discovered different from theirs? Are any of your climate change causes linked with another group s cause? Did your teacher share your work on social media? What kinds of comments did it receive?

5 GUIDING QUESTIONS Power Production EASY 1. What is energy used for in your daily environment? At home? At school? 2. Is there a power consuming device in your home? What would life be like without it? 3. What are the different ways of producing energy? 4. Which forms of power production contribute most to climate change? 5. Which forms of power production contribute least to climate change? AVERAGE 1. In what ways does your country produce power? 2. Which forms of power production contribute least to climate change? Which contribute most? 3. What is energy efficiency? 4. How could your home be made more energy efficient? 5. How does power production influence your region s environment? CHALLENGING 1. How was power produced in your country in the past? Now? In the future? 2. Which companies produce energy in your country? 3. Which company provides the electricity you use at home? How do they produce it? 4. Are the methods of power production in your country environmentally friendly? Why/ why not? 5. Is your region/country planning to build a new power production facility? What is the public opinion on it?

6 GUIDING QUESTIONS Industrial Production EASY 1. What kinds of things can be produced industrially? 2. Is there an industrial production facility in your home region or country? What does it produce? 3. Does your family use products or materials that have been industrially produced in your home country? 4. In what ways does industrial production contribute to climate change? 5. Industrial production contributes to climate change but why is it still important to have industrial production? AVERAGE 1. What kinds of products does your home country produce industrially? 2. Do you have items at home that have been produced industrially in your home country? 3. If your country cannot produce a certain product, where does the product come from? 4. Why is industrial production important to its local region? 5. In what ways does industrial production affect the environment in your home country? CHALLENGING 1. What industrial products does your country produce for export? Which does your country import? 2. Have there been recent incidents in your home country, or elsewhere in the world, where industrial production has affected the environment in a harmful way? 3. Are there notable industrial production companies in your home country/region? What do they produce, and how? 4. Why is it important to have industrial production, even if it might contribute to climate change? 5. Are there different ways of producing a certain industrial product is one more environmentally friendly than the other? How can the production of an industrial product be made more sustainable?

7 GUIDING QUESTIONS Waste Treatment EASY 1. What was the last thing you threw away? Do you know where it ends up after it leaves the bin? 2. What does it mean to decompose? 3. What kinds of things decompose? Which do not? 4. What does recycling mean? 5. How do you recycle at home? AVERAGE 1. How does waste collection work in your country? 2. Do you recycle at home? How? 3. When waste leaves your home, where does it go? 4. Can waste be recycled into new materials? 5. Is there a company in your home country that produces materials or products from waste? CHALLENGING 1. What kinds of materials or products can be manufactured from waste? 2. Is there a company in your home region that produces materials or products from waste? What do they produce? 3. Some waste decomposes. However, what happens when they decompose? Does the process harm the environment in some way? 4. Why are landfills problematic? How do they contribute to climate change? 5. Look into ways of recycling everyday waste. Is there something your home region could do better in?

8 GUIDING QUESTIONS Housing EASY 1. How does your family heat your home? 2. What do you use fresh water and electricity for at home? 3. Could use less water at home? How? 4. Could you use less electricity at home? How? 5. Do you have a recycling point at home? What kinds of things and materials do you recycle? AVERAGE 1. Which housing-related things consume natural resources? 2. Do you track your water and electricity consumption at home? How? Why might it be a good idea to do so? 3. Do you have a recycling point at home? What kinds of materials do you recycle? Where do they go? 4. How many electronic devices are continuously plugged on at your house? Could some of them be switched off when not in use? 5. Is there an especially energy consuming device in your home? What would life be like without it? CHALLENGING 1. What kinds of heating solutions are there? Which are based on renewable resources? 2. How could the energy and water consumption of a house be reduced? 3. What is an energy efficient house like? 4. How can technology help reduce housing-related emissions? 5. How do you think living will change in the future? Will it change? Remain the same? Become more or less energy efficient? How?

9 GUIDING QUESTIONS Transportation EASY 1. What methods of transportation are there? 2. Which method of transportation did you use to get to school in the morning? 3. How do your parents go to work? 4. How did your family travel to your latest holiday? 5. Are the ways of transportation used in your daily lives environmentally friendly? Why / why not? AVERAGE 1. Which methods of transportation are typical in your home region? 2. Which methods of transportation are most environmentally friendly? Why? 3. Which methods of transportation are least environmentally friendly? Why? 4. Are there electric cars in your home region? Have you ever seen one? Why are they a good solution in terms of the environment? 5. What are renewable fuels? CHALLENGING 1. Why is the use of fossil fuels harmful to the environment? Since we know they are harmful, why do we still use them? 2. What are renewable fuels? 3. Are renewable fuels produced and/or used in your home region? By whom? Why/why not? 4. Has your country s government set any goals or limitations to transportation in order to decrease its impact on the climate? 5. How do you think your home region could realistically be made more environmentally friendly in terms of transportation?

10 GUIDING QUESTIONS Agriculture EASY 1. What did you have for breakfast? Was anything you ate produced in your home region or country? 2. Have you ever seen or been on a farm? What was it like? If not, what do you imagine farms to be like? 3. What kinds of natural environments are there close to your home, or in your home country? How often do you visit them? 4. What kinds of foods are most environmentally friendly? 5. What kinds of foods are least environmentally friendly? AVERAGE 1. What kinds of foods are most environmentally friendly? Which are least environmentally friendly? Why? 2. What kinds of foods are produced in your home country or region? 3. Is it more environmentally friendly to eat foods that are produced locally, or foods that have been imported? Why? 4. What kinds of natural environments are there in your home region? Why is it important to preserve these environments? 5. How environmentally friendly is your own diet? CHALLENGING 1. What kinds of natural environments are there in your home region? Why is it important to preserve them? 2. What are the nutritional recommendations for a human being? Can we eat in an environmentally friendly manner, but still follow the recommendations? 3. Think about ten foods you eat most frequently where and how are they produced? Are they environmentally friendly? Are there factors that can make an otherwise environmentally friendly food less so? 4. Some people in the world don t have enough food to survive some have excess. What kinds of solutions have been suggested to solve this problem? What do you think about the solutions? Local foods are often offered as a more environmentally friendly option. What could be called a local food in your region? Is it produced in an environmentally friendly way? Why/ why not?

11 USEFUL LINKS Are your students independent researchers? Here are some links they might find useful during their research: UNESCO NASA Earth Day The World Bank Greenpeace National Geographic What s your Impact BBC

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