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Big Question: How are "Cycles" similar and different to "Changes"?
Use learning background 1 or 2 and basic Venn Diagram Tool
Broken Bay Big Ideas Project
Sample Big Idea: Change
For the purpose of identifying the kinds of links that can make Big Ideas more Real, Rich & Relevant, the topic of "Life Cycles" was chosen within the broader theme of "Change." For additional background on the rationale for links like these and such strategies as "Learning to Look," "Samplers," and "WebQuests," download the document: Curriculum Guidelines & Strategies for The Big Ideas Project (2.5 mg pdf)
Primary
Learning to Look
- Life Cycle of a Butterfly (for colouring in) compared to the Human Life Cycle.
Exploring different Cycles
- Life Cycle of Plants
- Water Cycle (simple) and Water Cycle (detailed)
- Wash Cycle
- Bicycle
- Poverty cycle
Use learning background 1 or 2 and basic Venn Diagram Tool
Middle
Learning to Look
- Global Warming: Hype or Hazard? (Click on 'Preview Clip' in the middle of the Web page.)
- Global Warming video from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
Sampler Links
Human changes- What makes you age?
- Fact Sheet: Overweight and obesity in Australian children
- Body Mass Index Calculator
- Kids Healthy Food and Activity Guide
- Climate Change: Impacts from Greenpeace.org
- Be a Habitat Hero - 10 ways You can Take Action - from National Geographic and Leonardo DiCaprio
- Global Warming Myths and Facts
- The Dangers of Global Warming
Secondary
Looking and Sampling Links
Human changes- The Fast Food Trap: How Commercialism Creates Overweight Children
- What is Anorexia Nervosa?
- Anorexia almost killed me: Daniel Johns
- Fast Facts from Australasian Society for the Study of Obesity
- Global Warming: Hype or Hazard? (Click on 'Preview Clip' in the middle of the Web page.)
- Global Warming video from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
- View the "Train" Public Service Advertisement from Google Video or Download the movie to your computer (If the download does not start automatically, right-click this link and choose "Save As".) You might need an AVI Player (Also read The Science behind the Ad)
Choose a subject and then use the Visual Ranking Tool to order changes from natural to unnatural / healthy to unhealthy
WebQuest Group Actions
Human changes- Erikson's Eight Stages of Social Development
- "i Have to Change!" The Role of the Adolescent in the Family as seen through literature
- Teen Movies - a case study of a form of Popular culture by Robin Julian (Monte Sant' Angelo College, North Sydney)
- Undo Global Warming from UnDoIt.com
- 'Act now' on global warming from The Australian
- About Local Greenhouse Action from the Australian Government
Common Resources
- A hotlist of Thinking Scaffold Links
- Sample Learning to Look Activity posted on the myinternet training site
- "My China" as a model for the Subject Sampler
- Exemplary WebQuest: Freedom Fighter or Terrorist?
- Group Process / Action Plan for a WebQuest: "Crool Zone"
- The 2nd10 Steps