Transcript How to carry out your action with an example.

Planning AS 2.1
SUS 201
Plan, implement and evaluate a personal action that
will contribute towards a sustainable future.
6 credits
Stage 1 Plan and carry out.
This is done in your logbook which will
be the place where you collect together
the task, standard, all your research,
planning etc.
• Identify the
sustainability issue –
choose something that
interests you and where
you think you can make
a change.
• Climate Change – I am
worried that people
aren’t taking it
seriously.
• Biodiversity
• Water quality
Explain why it is an
issue
• At this point the
explanation can just
be a general
description but when
you write your
evaluation, you will
expand on this in a
discussion for
excellence.
• Here I will research climate
change and this would take
some time. In the planning
stage, all I need to do is
write a general description
of why climate change is an
issue but in the evaluation
report, I can write a
discussion on climate
change to go towards
excellence.
• Identify the
aspects of
sustainability your
issue is related to.
• Environmental,
social, economic,
or cultural.
• Climate change is
related to all aspects of
sustainability –
environmental, social,
economic and cultural.
• Explain this more
• State your goal or vision
– what do you want to
achieve.
• I would like to raise
awareness of climate
change at RVAS and
give students some
positive ideas of how
they personally can
help.
• Investigate a range of
actions that might help
you to achieve your
vision.
• Run a poster campaign
• Give a presentation at
assembly
• Make a play or song and
perform it.
• Make a video and show
it to some junior
classes.
• Get involved in a
project
• Choose one of your
possible actions and say
why
• Make a video and show
it to some junior classes
• I chose this one
because I would like to
contact junior students
as I think they would be
easy to work with and
also I would like to
challenge myself to
learn about using the
video camera.
• List the individuals
who could help you
achieve your aim.
• Technology teacher, form
teacher, SUS teacher,
brother, mum, Uncle Bob,
Kenny Kyle, local farmers,
DOC, Forest and Bird,
Marlborough District
Council, Barbara Stewart
from Landcare, Rural
Women, Pelorus Bat
Project.
• Identify the individuals
• A junior form class or
or groups that you will
form classes.
target or
• Planting native trees /
• Describe the project
plants, discuss Kenny
that you will set up / get
Kyle’s initiative.
involved in.
• Work out how you will
know if your action has
had an effect. Collect
“before” information
• Make up a survey with
questions to check how
much students know
about climate change
before the video. I will
know if my video has
had an effect by using
the same questions
after I have shown the
video and comparing
the results.
• Gather data
• Undertake with DOC or
MDC some water
quality monitoring.
• Check out data available
through the MDC web
site or contact the
council.
• List resources and skills
that you will need.
• Will need to borrow the
video camera, learn how
to make and edit a video,
will need to make the
presentation interesting,
will need to be organized,
I will need to decide if I
do it by myself or ask
friends or family to help
me with the video. I will
need to research climate
change so I know what I
am talking about.
• Make a time frame
for your action
• I will research climate change first –
working through till the end of term
and using class time plus homework
and weekend time. I need to know
what I am talking about.
• By the end of term 2 I will also have
found out about the video camera –
where to get one and who will help
me with both filming and editing
• During the holidays I will need to do
all the work on the video – the
script, the filming and the editing.
• At the beginning of Term 3 I will
need to organize time to do the
presentation and the follow up
survey, and then write up my
evaluation.
• Divide your action up
into a series of planned
steps.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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7.
8.
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12.
13.
I will need to research climate change and
Write up the questions for the initial junior class
survey before the holidays.
Organise a time to see the class with their form
teacher.
Introduce myself to the class and get them to
complete the survey.
I will also find out how to use the video before
the holidays and ask the school experts for help.
In the holidays I will write a script and plan my
shots. I will need to present climate change in a
memorable way.
Make the video – may use friends to act in it or
not.
Edit the video and get it to its final form – add
music or other effects.
At the start of term 2 I will organize time with
the form teacher to show the video.( or maybe I
should do that earlier.)
Show the video to my chosen form class
Then I will do an “after” survey to see if the
students have learned anything about climate
change.
I will need to analyse the before and after
surveys to see if there has been an attitude
change.
Write up my report.
• Identify possible
problems with the
plan
• Solutions?
• I would like to target two classes
but may not have time so I need
to be prepared to only have one
class.
• I am a bit worried about standing
up in front of a junior class and
talking about this. Harden up!
• I am not sure if my friends will be
able to act in the video so I had
better be prepared to go alone.
• I would like to sing a song but I
can’t sing in tune! So I won’t sing
a song
• If I haven’t found anyone to help
me with the video camera and
editing, I could put a message on
the notices asking if anyone from
any class would be prepared to
help me with it.
• CARRY OUT THE PLAN
AND RECORD
EVIDENCE.
• The video and the
appraisal from the form
teacher.
• Collect “after”
information
• Give the form class the
“after” survey.
EVALUATION –
WRITING YOUR REPORT
• Did your action have an
effect?
• Compare the “before”
and “after” class
surveys and record the
results on a chart. I will
see if the students have
gained any knowledge
from my video. Process
the data and look for a
percentage increase in
knowledge or some
other way of presenting
it. Discuss this
• Discuss your
personal response
• I have learned a great
deal about climate
change and it has made
me think about what I can
do personally to reduce
my carbon footprint. I will
take care to ……….more
• I also learned a lot about
using a video camera and
I really enjoyed
interacting with the junior
class. I plan to stay in
touch with them and visit
them in form time to talk
about sustainability
issues.
• How could you have
carried out this
action better?
• What would you
change and why?
• What might you do
next
• Some things that went
wrong were basically about
not leaving enough time to
get my video made and I
had to do the editing it too
much of a hurry…. and
more
• Next time I would leave
myself more time and
would ……….lots more
• I would like to stay in touch
with the Year 9 class and
when I do my action for
next year, I would like to use
the same junior class to
help me with a school wide
awareness campaign for
climate change etc etc.
• Explain/discuss the
sustainability issue
that is involved.
• Explain/discuss the
sustainability issue that is
involved.
• This is where you get a chance
to demonstrate all that
research you did on climate
change and produce an
interesting discussion on why
climate change is a
sustainability issue and how it
links up with all the aspects of
sustainability. This is an
extension of the box at the
beginning where you
identified the sustainability
issue but did not develop the
ideas further as you then
focused on your action.
Your final report will have:
a summary of the action plan that you have
recorded in your log book.
It will also contain a full account of the
things that are listed under “Evaluation”
which will provide evidence for Excellence.
The report will contain evidence for your
action ( photos, videos, written statements by
eg form teachers that you have worked with. )
You will also hand in your log books and all
supporting documents.