The United Kingdom

The United Kingdom

*Description*

Main idea is to give students chance to know about the country whose language is what they are learning.

Students get to know about the United Kingdom; England, Scotland, Wales and the Northern Ireland.

*Grade level*

High school students (15-18)

*Curriculum*

English/English culture

INTRODUCTION



Do you know how these buidings are called?

The UK is a country where English language originally comes from.

There are many famous people who were born in the UK

such as Shakespeare, Newton, the beatles and JK Rowling.

In this webquest, you can know more about the UK,

cities, reamarkable people, culture, buildings, and so on.

TASK

Your final assignment is to give 15-20 minutes presentation with a group.

As your topic, you choose one of the 4 nations in the UK which are,

England, Scotland, Wales and Northen Ireland.

Follow the instructions below and make a good presentation!

PROCESS

1) Watch the video and learn about basic geographical information about the UK.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10

2) Decide which part of the UK you want to work on.

3) Find people who are interested in the same nation with you

and make a group of 4 people.

4) In the group, research about the nation

including these information below.

name

location

population

capital cities

remarkable people

landmark

5) Make a presentation based on what you found.

Use many pictures in powerpoint!

6) After listening to other presentations,

compare which nation is the biggest or smallest,

well-develoed or less developed,

where you would like to go for what purpose

and share your pinions in a group!

EVALUATION

Teacher will evaluate each group

which means that members of a group get the same score.

You really have to work hard together with group!

There are the criterias of evaluation.

Content  - quality and quantity of information given in the presentation

Powerpoint presentation - wether it's easy to understand and well organized

Group work - if each of group member gets the same chance to talk and express

Language - if you use proper language in appropreate situation

Evaluation criteria.
	Poor 1	Fair 2	Good 3	Exellent 4	Score
Content	Cover very basic information of the nation	Have some interesting facts in addition to basic information	Intersting information with good comparison	Very interesting information with clitical analysis and comparison
Powrpoint presentation	No pictures, just copied sentences from sources	Not many pictures but write sentences on slideshow	Easy to follow presentation with some pictures	Well organized slideshows with many appropreate pictures
Group work	Each member just has done their own parts	Every member tries to cooperate with each other	Each member is well cooperated to he work	Each memeber equalily contributes to the group work
Use of Language	Be able to make sentences but with many mistakes	Use understandable language with som mistakes	Make almost perfect sentences but few mistakes	Use appropreate language with suitable situastion, make no mistales

CONCLUSION

Now, you must have learnt a little bit more about the United Kingdom.

Does this project make you want to travel to the UK?

Things you learned will be very useful when you actually go there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB448OJMV00&feature=related

Review of tasks

1. Bloom's taxonomy

Bloom's taxonomy is learning stages model which provides three domains and each domain has 5-6 stpes. This learning model helps teachers and students to teach and learn.

Reviwing my webquest task comparing to Bloom's taxonomy, I found out what is lacking in my task.
My webquest task was about the UK, students are supposed to conduct researches on nation in the UK and make a presentaion in a group. In the process of this task, students can gain basic knowledge about the UK and understand the country. However, students will not be able to apply or analyze the information they get.
It would be more helpful for learners if teacher includes the process which requires learners to critically analyse and express their own opinions about the topic.

2. Individual and group work

Since my webquest is about making research and presentaion in a group, I think it is already a good assignment for group working purposes. Not only group work, the assignment asks each learner to think about the information they gained.
Here is my second version of webquest after I included things needed.

The United Kingdom

*Description*

Main idea is to give students chance to know about the country whose language is what they are learning.

Students get to know about the United Kingdom; England, Scotland, Wales and the Northern Ireland.

*Grade level*

High school students (15-18)

*Curriculum*

English/English culture

INTRODUCTION



Do you know how these buidings are called?

The UK is a country where English language originally comes from.

There are many famous people who were born in the UK

such as Shakespeare, Newton, the beatles and JK Rowling.

In this webquest, you can know more about the UK,

cities, reamarkable people, culture, buildings, and so on.

TASK

Your final assignment is to give 15-20 minutes presentation with a group.

As your topic, you choose one of the 4 nations in the UK which are,

England, Scotland, Wales and Northen Ireland.

Follow the instructions below and make a good presentation!

PROCESS

1) Watch the video and learn about basic geographical information about the UK.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10

2) Decide which part of the UK you want to work on.

3) Find people who are interested in the same nation with you

and make a group of 4 people.

4) In the group, research about the nation

including these information below.

name

location

population

capital cities

remarkable people

landmark

5) Make a presentation based on what you found.

Use many pictures in powerpoint!

6) After listening to other presentations,

compare which nation is the biggest or smallest,

well-develoed or less developed,

where you would like to go for what purpose

and share your pinions in a group!

EVALUATION

Teacher will evaluate each group

which means that members of a group get the same score.

You really have to work hard together with group!

There are the criterias of evaluation.

Content  - quality and quantity of information given in the presentation

Powerpoint presentation - wether it's easy to understand and well organized

Group work - if each of group member gets the same chance to talk and express

Language - if you use proper language in appropreate situation

CONCLUSION

Now, you must have learnt a little bit more about the United Kingdom.

Does this project make you want to travel to the UK?

Things you learned will be very useful when you actually go there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB448OJMV00&feature=related

The United Kingdom

The United Kingdom

*Description*

Main idea is to give students chance to know about the country whose language is what they are learning.

Students get to know about the United Kingdom; England, Scotland, Wales and the Northern Ireland.

*Grade level*

High school students (15-18)

*Curriculum*

English/English culture

INTRODUCTION



Do you know how these buidings are called?

The UK is a country where English language originally comes from.

There are many famous people who were born in the UK

such as Shakespeare, Newton, the beatles and JK Rowling.

In this webquest, you can know more about the UK,

cities, reamarkable people, culture, buildings, and so on.

TASK

Your final assignment is to give 15-20 minutes presentation with a group.

As your topic, you choose one of the 4 nations in the UK which are,

England, Scotland, Wales and Northen Ireland.

Follow the instructions below and make a good presentation!

PROCESS

1) Watch the video and learn about basic geographical information about the UK.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10

2) Decide which part of the UK you want to work on.

3) Find people who are interested in the same nation with you

and make a group of 4 people.

4) In the group, research about the nation

including these information below.

name

location

population

capital cities

remarkable people

landmark

5) Make a presentation based on what you found.

Use many pictures in powerpoint!

EVALUATION

Teacher will evaluate each group

which means that members of a group get the same score.

You really have to work hard together with group!

There are the criterias of evaluation.

Content  - quality and quantity of information given in the presentation

Powerpoint presentation - wether it's easy to understand and well organized

Group work - if each of group member gets the same chance to talk and express

Language - if you use proper language in appropreate situation

CONCLUSION

Now, you must have learnt a little bit more about the United Kingdom.

Does this project make you want to travel to the UK?

Things you learned will be very useful when you actually go there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB448OJMV00&feature=related

Greenhouse effect

Here is my answers to questions;

1. Models in the article

Mental-models was introduced in the article and mental models have three main role in learning which are problem solving, inferencing, and reasoning. Mental models reply to internal and cognitive representation.

2. Sketch of greenhouse effect

I was not really familiar with greenhouse gas and its effect so I just wrote the earth, ozone layer and sun lights going outside of greenhouse gas and infrared rays staying inside of the greenhouse gas.

3. Simulation

a) overview of the issue
Common things in my sketch and simulation are sunlights and infrared rays and things my sketch is lacking are the fact that buildings and other active objects are the main factors of greenhouse effect.
b) the atmosphere
I don't really understand what it means by 'atmosphere' but I think I could capture basic idea of the simulation of greenhouse effect. How it is at current situation, how it was 300 years ago, and in the ice age.
c)Phenomena
Main factors of increasing sunlight and infrared rays are environment and weather. When there are many buildings, technology that needs much energies, the number of sunlights and infrared rays increased because there is not enough forest which makes the number less. In addition, when  it's cloudy, the number also goes up somehow because it reflects the light and rays.
d)observation
When gas concentration is none, temperature goes down dramatically to around -8℃. On the other hand, when gas concentration is a lots, temperature goes up to around 15℃. This explains clearly that ice age exists because there was no factor causes greenhouse gas and there is a problem of global warming because there are too many factors cause greenhouse effect nowadays.
Today, temperature is about 18℃ while it used to be 15℃ in 1750. We can say that greenhouse effect has really something to do with temperature and it causes a serious problem.

4. evaluation
Definitely using ICT in learning and teaching is useful and effective. It helps learners imagine things, guess the consequences, give reasons and solve problems. I found out that these things directly related to mental models I mentioned in question 1. Not only that, using ICT also helps learners in a sense of enjoying learning. Especially when learners are small like primary school children, they could easily lose their concentration in learning. However if the learning material was computer graphics or any other things that children can try by themselves, it's very good to keep their motivations high.

Overall, I learned the effective way of using ICT in learning and teaching.