Week 30 · Term 2 review: Themes 3–4 and the term project 'An environmental issue' · 3 lessons
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Project: an environmental issue
ICT P5 Term 2, Themes 3–4
GoalPlan and present a group project on an environmental issue that affects people in Egypt.
New words
environmental issue · a problem that affects nature or the places where people livesurvey · asking a number of people the same questions and counting the answersmascot · an invented character that stands for a group or a messagepermission · agreement from someone before you ask them questions or use their things
Explanation
The Term 2 project is to share information about an environmental issue that affects people in Egypt, such as water or waste, energy use, or climate change. Work in a group. Step 1: choose a group and an issue, and listen to everyone’s opinion. Step 2: plan. Say each member’s strengths and roles, which tools you will use, how you will keep files in tidy folders with sources, and how you will present: a presentation, a poster or a web page. Include a mascot like your Junior Explorer. Step 3: research facts in a library that your teacher approves and in books. Step 4: do a short survey of family or neighbours, only with permission and with a grown-up near. Record answers, not names. Step 5: create and share your work. Step 6: reflect on your process.
1 Choose group and issue→2 Plan roles, tools, folders→3 Research facts→4 Survey with permission→5 Create and share→6 Reflect
Worked examples
A group picks ‘saving water at home’. Roles: Hana draws the mascot, Omar writes questions for the survey, Youssef searches an approved library, Salma designs the poster, Karim makes the graph. Every strength has a job.
For the survey they ask 10 neighbours, with permission and with a grown-up near: ‘Do you close the tap while brushing teeth?’ Answers: always 4, sometimes 4, never 2. 4 + 4 + 2 = 10, so the count is right. They write only the answers, never names.
Their folder has labelled sections: ‘Facts’, ‘Survey’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Sources’ and ‘Poster’. In ‘Sources’ they list the library and books they used. At the end they reflect: ‘Our survey was the hardest part. Next time we will ask more people.’
Class activity
Plan your project. Choose an environmental issue (water or waste, energy use, or climate change) and write why your group chose it. Make a plan table: each member, strength and role; tools (digital or paper); how you will organise folders; how you will present (presentation, poster or web page). Add a mascot of your own invention and explain how you will use it. Write three survey questions and say how you will ask for permission and keep names out. Then do the project, share it with the class, and write a reflection of four sentences.
Practice
1
Name two environmental issues that a project can be about.
For example: water or waste, energy use, climate change.
2
What must you do before you ask neighbours survey questions?
Ask permission and have a grown-up near.
3
Why record answers but not names in a survey?
To protect people’s privacy.
4
In a survey 6 people say yes, 3 say sometimes and 1 says no. How many people were asked?
