S1+Course


 * S1** **Climate Change**
 * **week** || **Art** || **Business Studies** || **Computing** || **Technical** ||
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 * **1** || School network || **Climate Change**

The class is divided into 4 groups, each group has a main topic area. The topics are:
 * 1) **Energy**
 * 2) **Transportation**
 * 3) **Plants and Animals**
 * 4) **Home**

The first week is allocated to setting appropriate groups and investigating pupils' personal qualities.

A team building task may be included e.g. Paper Towers Exercise if the pupils are not taking part in a whole of S1 Critical Skills Workshop (as for S2) || Critical Skills || **S1 IT Climate Change Course Outline** Note: This has not been broken down into weeks.

The Class is divided into 4 groups, each group has a main topic area. The topics are:
 * 1) **Energy**
 * 2) **Transportation**
 * 3) **Plants and Animals**
 * 4) **Home**

The **aims** of the course are divided into four activities, these are:
 * What is Climate Change and what are the possible causes of it, especially relating to your own group topic?
 * Headlines:- Using all available news media sources, gather up headline topics and give a brief summary of the headline. These will be related to your topic.
 * Solutions and preventions:- What can be done to prevent Climate Change occuring? again this should be related to your particular topic.
 * What We Have learned.

The **Objectives** of the course are: || individual exploration || Introduction to individual group tasks e.g energy, transport, plants and animals or home. Group planning and allocation of roles. || Critical Skills ||  || followed by hands on sessions || Group researching using the Internet || School network, email ||  || followed by hands on sessions || Group researching using the Internet || Internet Searching ||  || How green are you? Use Wiki to formulate ideas ||  || contemporary green/low carbon footprint buildings, dealing with the basic construction of a dwelling with attention given to the aesthetics || Pupils continue preparing final presentations ||  ||   || solutions are introduced at random, and this method of learning continues to the end of the cycle. || Pupils continue preparing final presentations || Create a game based on research project ||  || for future use. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * To build up a Wiki for each group, with a page for each aim.
 * To create a short windows movie maker film on Climate Change using material from their wiki's.
 * To present as a group, each short film on the final week of the course.
 * **2** || Introduction to Sketchup
 * **3** || Teacher led tutorials
 * **4** || Teacher led tutorials
 * **5** || Teacher led tutorials followed by hands on sessions || Pupils begin collating information and designing final presentation, movie, poster or publisher document. || Research project -
 * **6** || Design challenge, with examples of
 * **7** || Pupil led demonstrations of particular
 * **8** ||  || Pupils allocate tasks and plan talk to rest of class to run alongside final presentaion. || ditto ||   ||
 * **9** ||  || Group presentation || Present to class - upload game to web ||   ||
 * **10** || All drawings are saved into personal folders