Introduction
You are a member of an environmental group similar to Greenpeace in La Plata. Your team has been assigned the project of creating two posters to make teenagers aware of the environmental problems in the city and how to be more concerned about the situation.
Task
Your posters will be made in PAINT programe and consist of text and an image/images encouraging teenagers to keep the city clean, save water and recyling and reducing rubbish. Your team will need to decide about the topic, type of font and format of the poster, text and illustrating images. Pay attention to the Evaluation item that appears at the bottonm of this post !
Finally, your team will send the poster to escuelaunlp@yahoo.com.ar in attached files. Include the your names, course and your teacher´s name.
Process
Your team will work either face to face, vía chat or email when exploring and researching on the internet. Teams cannot have more than four members.
Stage 1
Teams will explore the sites that appear below about environment problems to pick up ideas and specific vocabulary. Click on the links and then on the backwards arrow on the left top of the screen to come back to the blog:
Vocabulary If you have problems with the vocabulary or don´t understand a word, look up the words in this dictionary. Click HERE
Possible Images:
photos taken by yourself will get a higher scoring
and answer questions on a pollution questions template.
Your team will meet after you have explored to share your findings.
Stage 2
You will design a poster having in mind the following:
* Warn readers about an environmental problem
* Persuade readers to avoid polluting activities
*Be original, creative and avoid plagiarism
Your work will be evaluated with a student rubric .
Deadline August 15th
Created in July 2010 by Nelba Quintana
