Nicky's+Notes+Term+3

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__**Brief Intro into this unit:**__
__**The Issues:**__
 * 1) We are part of the Enviroschools programme but at this stage there is very little activity in this focus area.
 * 2) We are also part of the ICT contract yet our classes are severely limited in their technology.
 * 3) Our school is in need of funding for learning, wouldn't it be great if all of our classes had it's own flip camera, digital camera's, microphones. Is this a need? What funding could benefit learning inyour class.
 * 4) Gathering Assessment Data, collecting student voice, students examining themselves learning, teacher practice
 * 5) Our school vision identifies that we will Respond to challenge and make a postivie difference. The vison intent breaks this aspect down further in saying to include ideas of sustainability to our place and our grounds. Within our vision what other links can be made to making a differnece with 1, 2 and 3?


 * __A Solution:__**

"Earning for Learning" is an Inquiry focus which can incorporate the issues above e.g.
 * Students can explore and challenge the concept of zero waste
 * Students can design and systems and strategies to help achieve zero waste.
 * Students can decide what could be recycled to bring an income into their learning programmes

[|SO WHAT MAKES A GOOD INQUIRY?]

**THE PLAN:**
Links to [|Wearable Arts August 20 / 21st] You can sign up for the newsletter or contact them directly.
 * __Possibilities:__**


 * __Resources__**
 * We have an abundance of resources e.g Enviro-Schools Zero Waste Folder. Do you know others?
 * Involve Sally, the Envir Schools facilitator
 * [|Education for Enterprise - Primary School Resourc> es]
 * [|Sustaining Tomorrow Teaching Resources - Scroll DOwn and Check out the Curriculum Planning Units]

"Our has been called the "Throw Away Society" because so many of the products we consume now are disposable, or have ashort life expectance". In Nature there is no "throw away"
 * Immersion Ideas:**

Prewire Possibilities with a "Technology Day"
 * using Sitech, exposing children to BeeBots, microphones, microscopes, ( realistically priced items).
 * Utilising the flip camera's from EduSoft to help chn learn

Zero Waste Programme with Envir Schools - See Bury It and other activites in the Zero Waste folder (p377 - 395)