1 / 16

Enhancing Consumer Awareness in Students: A Cross-Curricular Learning Project

Engage 17-year-old students in an impactful assessment project covering English, biology, chemistry, and PE to increase their critical thinking as consumers. Explore topics from diet to food production through stages like research, documentary viewing, and debates.

jdandrea
Télécharger la présentation

Enhancing Consumer Awareness in Students: A Cross-Curricular Learning Project

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Effective Assessment for Learning Raising consumer awareness Manica Seljak, 21 June 2012

  2. Presentation plan • Aims of the project • Project • Assessment • Evaluation

  3. 17-year-old students • A cross-curricular project (English, biology, chemistry, PE) • Authentic

  4. AIMS • raise awareness of students as consumers • Students are able to critically view information that a consumer has access to and are capable of making better choices for a healthier diet.

  5. Stage 1 - Documentary • Food Inc. (2008) • What is the situation in Slovenia?

  6. Stage 2 - Seeds • Biology • A review of seeds and plant reproduction • Food pyramid • Additives

  7. Stage 3 – A balanced diet for a sportsman

  8. Stage 4 - Research • Pair work • 1 month (at school, at home) • Topics: milk, yoghurt, bread, red meat, fish and seafood, poultry, eggs, organic products, fruit, vegetables, tinned food, water, soft drinks,etc. • Questions

  9. Eggs • Food pyramid. • Different types of eggs you can buy in our supermarkets. • Define the term free-range. • The benefits and dangers of eating eggs. • Go to 2 supermarkets and research what different eggs you can buy. Compare the prices. • Contact a large egg supplier (e.g. Perutnina Ptuj, Jata, Jajca izpod Kamniških planin and research how the chickens are kept and what they are fed. • Is it possible to buy free-range eggs in our supermarkets? • Go to the open market place on Saturday and check how many local farmers sell eggs and what their price is, how the chickens are kept and fed.

  10. Stage 5 – Consultations and formative assessment • At least one consultation • What has been done? • What should / could still be done? • Problems • Feedback

  11. Stage 6 - Presentations • 10-minute presentations • The most important findings • The most interesting part • Problems • While researching, did you feel you are respected / important as a customer? • Was it possible to get the information you wanted?

  12. Assessment • Students were marked in English and biology – formal assessment

  13. Stage 7 - Debate • How important is it to know what you buy? • What can we do to raise consumer awareness? • Were you right / wrong when you made the hypothesis that the situation in Slovenia is much better than the one in the USA?

  14. Formative assessment • Feedback for each of the students • Consultations • Presentation • Research • Debate

  15. + Documentary Debate Research I have changed as a consumer. I feel I have really done something. - A lot of work Frustration when not getting the information needed Work at home, not only at school Evaluation

More Related