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Project Details

Project Name: Research on water resources and

per capita consumption

Name & Surname:- Raffaele Nardella

Address/Nation: Milan (ITALY)

E-mail ranardel@libero.it

Profession: English Teacher in ITIS Giorgi di Milano

Role in the initiative/project: tutor

mailto:ranardel@libero.itmailto:ranardel@libero.it

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Brief description of the initiative/project

The projects objective is to make young people aware about water

saving and sustainable growth. The students will collect data about the

use of water in their families, carry out conceptual mapping, diagramsand charts synthesising all the information they have gathered; at the

end of the project they will create a multimedia presentation.

Subjects included: natural science, maths, computer science,

physics/chemistry, law.

Target: 2 year course in a II degree Secondary Schools.

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Outline of the problem

Human life and other forms of life all depend on water.

Resources are limited

Use/consumption is increasing daily.

Can Man/Water relationship be rationalised/modified?

Is our behaviour within the family environment primary in determining

positive results in the use/consumption of water resources?

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Objectives

Set up a research method

Collect and transmit dataData reprocessing after transmission

Consider water as a resource and outline problems linked with water

saving, pollution and sustainable growth.

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Activities, steps and timetable

Presentation of the project (1h)Division in groups (3 students -1/2h)

Handing out of material for web research (1/2h)

Handing out of material to measure and collect data on a familys water

consumption (1/2 h)

Web research in class and /or at home (4h)

Research at home (1/2h for 7 days)Presentation, analysis and processing of collected data (4h)

Outline and processing of data and drawing up of charts and diagrams

(2h)

Power Point presentation with students conclusions and proposals (5h)

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Details

The projects will be divided into 9 steps. Starting from the 5th step

(guided research on suggested websites) the students, after having

collected the relevant data, will skim the most important information,

critically elaborate it and draw up a conceptual map which will be

included in the presentation. At the same time each student, through the

use of the material theyve received, will start collecting information on

their familys water consumption and will jointly draw up the relevant

charts and diagrams (using Excel) They will also analyse the data,

discuss and elaborate the concepts that will be included in the final

report and in the multimedia presentation

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Requirements

Knowledge of the state of matter and physical change

Components of the atom and chemical bonds

Knowledge of the words: law/legal rules, environmental offences,

sustainable growth

Use of software programs (Word, excel, power Point) and computer

graphic programs (Microsoft Photo editor)Knowledge and use of physic quantity and units.

Know how to carry out spreadsheet calculations

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Technological Setting

Computer room equipped with internet and workstations for each student

or more.

Programs: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Microsoft Photo editor/Adobe

photoshop

Conceptual maps ( a free CMap program to develop and visualise via

internet conceptual maps created by the Institute for Human and

Machine Cognition, University of West Florida, downloadable from

http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/)

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Abilities, introduced or consolidated

Research, analyse and process information .Measure and find data.

Show, set up and format documentation for multimedia presentation.

Graphic preparation of texts.

Insert still or moving images (diagrams, charts)

Editing and proofreading.

Plan the presentation.Create a multimedia presentation.

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Table of analysis

Web research

Measurements

Collecting and processing of data

Sources

Organisation

Contents

Originality

Workload

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SWOT ANALYSIS

STRENGHTS (Focus on innovation)/

CRITICALITIES (Focus on barriers and difficulties)/

OPPORTUNITIES (Focus on added values)/

THREATS (Focus on limits of time, space, country.)/