【2007/8/1】2nd day of environmental education

10:00am- 12:00pm in Sarafand Learning Resource Center

□■The participants■□
10 students
2 supervisors( Mr. Hamzeh, Mr. Kamal)
3 teachers( Mr. Iyad, Ms. Hanadi S, Ms. Hanadi H)
5 Japanese (Mako, Taka from Kansai Univ, Mr. Nori from Keio school, Naomi, Hiroko from JICA)

□■The objectives■□
・　The students understand more about environmental issues.
・　The students think of the reason of environmental issues.
・　The students try to think what they can do for solve the environmental issues from individual perspectives.
・　The students will enhance higher order thinking.
・　The students will improve discussion skill and interaction skill(communication skill)

□■The program of today■□
1) Ice breaking (10 min)
2) Discussion about the environmental issue based on Work sheet in Group (10 min)
3) Presentation between Groups by one of the member of Group(5 min)
4) Discussion based on the students’ interest of environmental issues (20 min)
5) Drawing (60 min)
6) Feedback (10 min)

□■The feedback■□
・　Today, the electricity was cut and the teachers could not use the digital date which they were supposed to use for the program. However they improvise the activity. The teachers brought the chairs outside because inside of Learning Resource Center was very hot. The teachers used white board to promote discussion between students. It was very good facilitation. In Syria electricity cut happen very often. Therefore the teachers have to think of alternative activity when they use electric equipments like computer and projector.
・ The students started drawing without any difficulties. It is because the students have been learning about environment enough since May and it seemed to be easy to express their image. For example, the girl, Haya, draw that the fish on the sea was dying because of water pollution from factory. It is hard to image like this, but she has been studying about water pollution so that she could smoothly start to draw.
・ In Japan, the students do not draw same things.. UNRWA students practice drawing before making drawing. That is the differences between Japan and UNRWA. In Japan, the students are educated to image and create since they are very small. Therefore it was not very difficult for Japanese student to improvise and create new things. It would be very important for students to have experience to create new things through various activities.