The Horse 2021/22

Environment & Technology

VZ21 program and tasks

Contact
Teacher T&U (Technik&Umwelt), wkvw, Eliane Suter (MSc UZH, Safety engineer CAS ETH) esuter@dontwastemy.energy
Collaboration Project "Learning through experience" -  Befter: [Completed]
Autumn semester 21/22, 3 lectures: Friday 7.10/8.05/8.55 (ends 9.40)
Spring semester 22, 3 lectures: Friday 7.10/8.05/8.55 (ends 9.40)
Random picker VZ21 (randomlists.com)
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W13: 06/03 Friday* 2022 - present

[Students' and teacher's Ideas in progress]
"Learning by discussion - round tables"
...

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Grading submission: 30.05.22
W12: 05/27/2022 - no lessons (nach Auffahrt)

W11: 05/20 Friday* 2022

REMINDER: Deadline for IDAF, commenting new contributions on dontwastemy.energy (Fachkommentare, peer feedback), inform and send the link to all participants, interview partners, etc.

Extended Deadline: Ready for publishing (10/10)

07:10 - Welcome, Program & Warm up

Teacher's assessment talks with students

Team work
All Collaboration Projects are ready for publishing
Commenting published web contributions (at least 1 per student)
Propagation
IDAF Showcase ENERGY

-------INTERACTION------

09:40 - End of E&T 2022, Term II

 

*Missing students: Dilara, Jana, Kim, Soumaya, Lucie, Dani

W10: 05/13 Friday* 2022 - present

Deadline Interim State of the art (IDAF-Zwischenstand)
Reminder: Wikipedia links (add at least 5 to your contribution); Videos on Vimeo: Add title and description, first pic; Mind the spelling check; Captions, ...

7:10 - Welcome, Program & Warm up

C-Projects Task 19: Set at least 5 Wiki links resp. boxes in your contribution (technical terms, special expressions)

Reminder: Wiki Preview box, image captions, link formatting, title, sources, ...

Team work

  1. Project sprints: Publishing
  2. IDAF Sprints
  3. Photos

9:30 - Reflection in the class (takeaways), questions?

*Missing students: Dani (21/22)

W09: 05/06 Friday* 2022

Reminder, notes:
-C-Projects, Website: Team photos? (link from each team on MS Teams, or photo), reviewers?, Checklist?, Team assessment MS forms? SEO-Description (end of contribution when logged in), Direct link (mind the date =>day of publication), categories, prepare a short propagation post for Instagram [direct link will be here] will be posted by the social media team, etc.
-IDAF Energy: Renewables, non renewables: basics, quiz, Intro into Showcases, deadlines

ENERGY Carriers / Renewables vs Non-renewables

7:10 - Welcome, Program & Warm up
Material: Basics in Energy knowledge

Technical terms: depletable vs non-depletable renewable source of energy (see video example)
"Energie wird nicht erzeugt sondern von einer Form in die andere umgewandelt"
=>Energieerhaltungssatz

Learning Objectives

  • Unterschiedliche Formen der Energiegewinnung beschreiben
  • Vor- und Nachteile der unterschiedlichen Energieformen abwägen

IDAF Task 4 :: Check your knowledge about Energy carriers (Energieträger): [Link to the quiz], build teams of two but each student must fill in the quiz (screenshot of your final score in your private section of the class OneNote)

18:05 - Intro IDAF Task 5 (main part)
>Showcase "Energy 100 years ago, today, in 100 years"

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Collaboration Project - Team work
=>Project Sprints (get to 10 of a scale of 10)

  • Photo of you and all collaboration team members: let me know where they are!
    =>or on The Horse (send me the link on MS Teams) or on your web contribution
    (add the name and from where they are)
  • Double check of your team assessment (MS Forms), it must be up to date!
  • Reviewers must be mentioned in your contribution
  • Check your image details for wordpress (here is an example)
  • C-Projects Task 18: prepare a short propagation post on The Horse for Instagram, containing (1) a short text, (2) self-made picture, (3) direct link to your contribution (only available after going live) [direct link will be here]
    =>it will be posted by the social media team (categories: your class, your project category, SOCIAL MEDIA TEAM) right after publication.

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9:30 - Reflection in the class (takeaways), questions?


Homework

  • All C-Project tasks completed (10 of a scale of 10). Ready for publishing on www.dontwastemy.energy
  • IDAF Tasks (until 4 completed, 5 ongoing - mind the deadlines)

*Missing students: Jasmin, Lucie, Joel, Sophie, Dani, Savina


15.04.-01.05.22 - Spring holidays

W08: 04/08 Friday* 2022

ENERGY Concepts / Energiebegriffe

7:10 - Welcome, Program & Warm up
Example: Energy carriers, Basic knowledge

Learning Objectives

  • Grundbegriffe und Einheiten verstehen und richtig anwenden

Warming up for Watts and kWh
Video: Olympic Cyclist vs. Toaster (youtube.com)
Full article: Protecting nature by bike (dontwastemy.energy)

Learn about energy concepts, read the text and watch the video here: Basics in energy concepts (The giant Horse)

Calculation Task related to your project.
IDAF Task 3
Categories: your class, your project
Tags: calculation, ...

IDAF Task 1 :: Check your knowledge about Energy concepts: [Link to the quiz] randomly chosen teams of two but each student must fill in the quiz (screenshot of your final score in your private section of the class OneNote)

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8:55 Team work
Manage/adapt your storyboard / Transfer your high quality material from The Horse to the website dontwastemy.energy

  • Start of interim assessments
  • Double check of team assessment (MS Forms)
  • Project Sprints (get to at least 9 of a scale of 10)

9:30 - Meeting in class room. Reflection (takeaways), questions?
9:40 - END


Homework

All tasks completed. Ready for publishing on www.dontwastemy.energy
Goal/Sprint for all teams: Your project score must be at least 9 on a scale of 10 (10=Ready for publishing).

IDAF Task 2:: What is your heat source? (dontwastemy.energy)
Product: Post on The Horse (Categories: your class, My heat source) (Tags: e.g. renewable, non-renewable, oil, wood, gas, solar, geothermal, etc.)

*Missing students: Celia, Dilara

W07: 04/01 Friday* 2022

Reminder: =>Photo shooting (screenshots/photos/videos of collaboration partner), IDAF M / T+U: Energy (nuclear energy)

7:10 - Welcome, Program & Warm up
Example: https://2022.the-horse.education/post/goats-for-money

Team work
Manage/adapt your storyboard / Transfer your high quality material from The Horse to the website dontwastemy.energy

  • Start of interim assessments
  • Double check of team assessment (MS Forms)
  • Project Sprints (get to at least 8 of a scale of 10)
9:30 - Reflection in the class (takeaways), questions?


Homework
All tasks completed. Ready for publishing on www.dontwastemy.energy

Goal/Sprint for all teams: Your project score must be at least 8 on a scale of 10 (10=Ready for publishing).

*Missing students: Céline, Savina, Jasmin, Celia

W06: 03/25 Friday* 2022

W06: 03/25/2022 - deadline III

7:10 - Welcome, Program & Warm up

Team work
Manage/adapt your storyboard / Transfer your high quality material from The Horse to the website dontwastemy.energy

9:30 - Reflection in the class (takeaways), questions?


Homework
All tasks completed. Ready for publishing on www.dontwastemy.energy

*Present: Cheyenne, Celia, Céline, Sophie, Fabio, Mario, Joel, Miguel, Remy

W05: 03/18 Friday* 2022 - present

Reminder: =>Photo shooting (screenshots/photos/videos of collaboration partner), IDAF M / T+U: Energy (nuclear energy)
IDAF Task 1: Your heating source
>IDAF M / T+U: Energy (nuclear energy), OneNote Section IDAF, Homework

  1. 7:10 - Welcome, Program & Warm up
    https://2022.the-horse.education/post/landet-mein-plastik-im-meer
  2. Discussion of the story boards (Ablauf) for web publishing
    >Important: Imagination step (before the experience) and Reflection (after the experience)
    >possibility to link the parts of the storyboard to your posts "Ready for publishing" on The Horse
    >translated text (e.g. by deepl.com) must be designated (bezeichnet/markiert)
    >Look for reviewers of your contribution (name of reviewers)
    >Imagine/Think, act, reflect

  3. Tips for Wordpress Web publishing (Part II):
    WordPress (WordPress.org) is a free Content Management System (CMS), i.e.  an "Open Source" software (everyone can use it) for a shared work creation, organization and publishing of content. The students' website project www.dontwastemy.energy is also based on WordPress CMS.
    >you need a team login for www.dontwastemy.energy/dwme
    >Use the checklist for web publishing
    >Login check by all students

  4. Team work
    Manage/adapt your storyboard / Transfer your high quality material from The Horse to the website dontwastemy.energy

  5. 9:30 - Reflection in the class (takeaways), questions?


Homework

  • Please take into account that all tasks and C-Project tasks must be submitted on time. The status of the project work must also be updated regularly (on The Horse with the post link in your private section on the Class OneNote)
  • C-Project Task 15: Your "magic composition" is about to get ready for publishing. Important is to have your web contribution reviewed by different people (at least two) that do not belong to your team (e.g. Experts, teachers, acquaintances, relatives, colleagues, etc.). The name of your reviewers must be given. Tip :: Use the checklist for web publishing
  • C-Project Task 16: Reflect and compare with step 1 (Vision & Imagination). What happened to you personally and/or to the team in between? What kind of knowledge and experience could you achieve? How biased has your perception of the “real world” been? Did your guesses correspond?
    * Result: A student’s and/or team’s post on «The horse», must be part of the final contribution.
  • C-Project Task 17: Photos (or video) of the Team members (the collaboration partners included)

*Missing students: Lia (exam), Savina, Miguel (MS Teams?), Sophie (MS Teams), Lucie

W04: 03/11 Friday* 2022

Reminder: diverse: Profile pic, IDAF M / T+U: Energy (nuclear energy)
Login check, Survey check (sust. tourism, Airplane, Vegetarian vs Vegan)

  1. 7:10 - Welcome, Program & Warm up
    >Energy carriers (Energieträger) - What is your energy source for
    a) heating your room?
    b) your electricity production?

  2. Introduction Wordpress Web publishing (Part I):
    WordPress (WordPress.org) is a free Content Management System (CMS), i.e.  an "Open Source" software (everyone can use it) for a shared work creation, organization and publishing of content. The students' website project www.dontwastemy.energy is also based on WordPress CMS.
    >you need a team login for www.dontwastemy.energy/dwme
    >Use the checklist for web publishing
    >Login check by all students

  3. Team work
    Create your storyboard / Transfer your high quality material from The Horse to the website dontwastemy.energy

  4. 9:30 - Reflection in the class (takeaways), questions?
    >Home


Homework

  • Please take into account that all tasks and C-Project tasks must be submitted on time. The status of the project work must also be updated regularly.
  • C-Project Task 14: Create the story board (Ablaufplan, Szenenbuch) of your web contribution (Web-Beitrag, Publikation) on www.dontwastemy.energy =>on The Horse and/or directly on your new team account on dontwastemy.energy/dwme
    Tip :: Use the checklist for web publishing

*Missing students: Joel, Lucie, Jana, Miguel, Dani, Soumaya, Dilara

W03: 03/04 Friday* 2022

W03: 03/04/2022 - deadline II

  1. 7:10 - Welcome, Program & Warm up
    >Energy carriers (Energieträger) - example Russia (Geopolitical maps)
    >Surveys' testing in class: Sustainable Tourism, Fast Fashion, Vegetarian vs. Vegan
    >Surveys for sending to all wkvw students? (to the surveys for wkvw)
    >n = 50 (minimum amount of respondents)

  2. C-Project Task 13: Inform about the location of the city or village of your collaboration partners on a map (post on The Horse)
    a) snip out (image of the map)
    b) link to the position

  3. A) Your work plan for today (Post on The Horse, Categories: your class, your project category; Tag: work plan)
    >Goals?
    >Who is doing what?
    >Collaboration: State of the art?
    >Project bubbles: State of the art?

  4. Team work / after the experience / post production
    Step 4 – Shape & create (see the befter steps on dontwastemy.energy)
    =>Edit and produce your own content and media collected during "The Experience" step: text, pictures, audio (voice recording), video, graphs, etc.
    * Result: A teams contribution (draft) resp. a collection of self-made materials on «The Horse», ready for publishing on the public students’ project website dontwastemy.energy
    Tip: Mind the categories: your class, your project category; Tag: media collection

  5. 9:30 - Reflection in the class (takeaways), questions?
    B) Your work plan for today (self-assessment at the end of the lesson)
    >Goals, subgoals? What have you achieved today?
    >Project bubbles: State of the art? (add to each bubble your state of the art from 1-10)


Homework

  • Progress/Completing C-Project Tasks  =>all material, texts, media must be collected on The Horse under the appropriate project category

*Missing students: Cheyenne (1 lesson present), Alexandra, Kim, Mario, Joel


*13.02.22-27.02.22 Sports vacations*

W02: 02/11 Friday* 2022

Reminder: Intro Wordpress Web publishing (Part I) - Checklist!
=>Photo shooting (screenshots/photos/videos of collaboration partner)

  1. 7:10 - Welcome, Program & Warm up
    >Surveys' testing in class?
    >Surveys for wkvw? Mailing to wkvw students and teachers: Please prepare your text and survey link on The Horse adding the category "Surveys for wkvw" (to the surveys for wkvw)
    >supporting each other, sharing, giving feedback - check out the honor codex

  2. A) Your work plan for today (Post on The Horse, Categories: your class, your project category; Tag: work plan)
    >Goals?
    >Who is doing what?
    >Collaboration: State of the art?
    >Project bubbles: State of the art?

  3. C-Project Task 11: Teams' assessments (by MS Forms, deadline after the sports vacations, 2022-03-04)
    Hint: you can fill out more than one form, i.e.
    Form A) showing intention (geplant, Absichtserklärung, das wollen wir machen/umsetzen),
    Form B) Realisation/Implementation (das haben wir tatsächlich umgesetzt/realisiert)
    >Intro by the teacher
    >Here are the questions for the teams' preparation:
    Team Assessment for your web contribution or showcase on dontwastemy.energy

  4. Word press Intro? After the holidays

  5. 9:30 - Reflection in the class (takeaways), questions?
    B) Your work plan for today (self-assessment at the end of the lesson)
    >Goals, subgoals? What have you achieved today?
    >Project bubbles: State of the art? (add to each bubble your state of the art from 1-10)


Homework

  • Progress/Completing C-Project Tasks  =>all material, texts, media must be collected on The Horse under the appropriate project category

*Missing students: Lucie, Jana, Kerstin, Savina, Soumaya, Elena,

W01: 02/04 Friday* 2022

  1. 7:10 - Welcome, Program & Warm up
    >https://2022.the-horse.education/post/rubbish-collectors-in-turkey
    >What is your flight hight? (earth.google.com)
    >Info Project Bubbles & "magic composition"
    >Info Social media channel: each team must prepare a short text and picture or video or audio (own voice) for the propagation (C-Project Task 10), Categories: Your class, your project cat., SOCIAL MEDIA TEAM
    >Surveys' testing in class?
    >Surveys for wkvw? Mailing to wkvw students and teachers: Please prepare your text and survey link on The Horse adding the category "Surveys for wkvw"
    (see example here)
    >supporting each other, sharing, giving feedback - check out the honor codex

  2. A) Your work plan for today (Post on The Horse, Categories: your class, your project category; Tag: work plan)
    >Goals?
    >Who is doing what?
    >Collaboration: State of the art?
    >Project bubbles: State of the art?

  3. C-Project Task 11: Teams' assessments (by MS Forms, deadline after the sports vacations, 2022-03-04)
    Hint: you can fill out more than one form, i.e.
    Form A) showing intention (geplant, Absichtserklärung, das wollen wir machen/umsetzen),
    Form B) Realisation/Implementation (das haben wir tatsächlich umgesetzt/realisiert)
    >Intro by the teacher
    >Here are the questions for the teams' preparation:
    Team Assessment for your web contribution or showcase on dontwastemy.energy

  4. C-Project Task 12: Team work Collaboration projects (State of the art 1-10, reporting on challenges/chances so far)
    =>Post on The Horse, Categories: your class, your project category; Tag: collaboration

  5. 9:30 - Reflection in the class (takeaways), questions?
    B) Your work plan for today (self-assessment at the end of the lesson)
    >Goals, subgoals? What have you achieved today?
    >Project bubbles: State of the art? (add to each bubble your state of the art from 1-10)


Homework

  • Progress/Completing C-Project Tasks  =>all material, texts, media must be collected on The Horse under the appropriate project category

*Missing students: Céline, Lucie, Jana, Kerstin, Savina

Start Spring term 2022

W19: 01/28 Friday* 2022 - present

Reminder: Task Social Media Post, wkvw mailing of surveys =>Short text, link, team names (see example)

  1. 7:10 - Welcome, Program & Warm up
    =>deepen your "Online-Survey Skills" with KoBoToolbox
    (see screenshots on OneNote)
    Mailing to wkvw students and teachers: Please prepare your text and survey link on The Horse adding the category "Surveys for wkvw"
    (see example here)

  2. Info Project Bubbles & "magic composition"

  3. C-Project Task 9: after the experience / post production
    Step 4 – Shape & create (see the befter steps on dontwastemy.energy)
    =>Edit and produce your own content and media collected during "The Experience" step: text, pictures, audio (voice recording), video, graphs, etc.
    * Result: A teams contribution (draft) resp. a collection of self-made materials on «The Horse», ready for publishing on the public students’ project website dontwastemy.energy
    Tip: Mind the categories: your class, your project category; Tag: media collection

  4. Team work Collaboration projects (State of the art 1-10, challenges/chances so far)

  5. 9:30 - Reflection in the class (takeaways), questions? Homework


Homework

  • Progress/Completing C-Project Tasks  =>all material, texts, media must be collected on The Horse under the appropriate project category

*Students present: Sophie, Alina, Celia, Lia, Kim, Cheyenne, Elena, Jana, Kerstin, Céline, Rémy, Edmond, Mario

Grading submission 24.01.2022

W18: 01/21 Friday* 2022

W18: 01/21/2022 - deadline I
Reminder: Task Social Media Post, Project Bubbles, Data & surveys, why using KoBoToolbox is better than other tools. The power of calculations (check out the examples); =>Photo shooting [in progress]

Program

  1. 7:10 - Welcome, Program & Warm up
  2. Info Project list & Checklists
  3. Example of calculations on dontwastemy.energy
    >What are the true costs of an unsustainable flight? | Don't Waste My Energy! (dontwastemy.energy)
    >Cultivable parking spaces in Zurich | Don't Waste My Energy! (dontwastemy.energy)
    >The «yellow» side of aluminium | Don't Waste My Energy! (dontwastemy.energy)
    >Q15 – How much energy do I consume per day and how to calculate it? | Don't Waste My Energy! (dontwastemy.energy)
  4. C-Project Task 8: THE EXPERIENCE
    Perform your experience (research project related to your research question). For example the team could visit a company and do an interview on site! There are different ways to perform something new: For example designing an experiment, doing an interview or survey, asking questions to an experienced person or scientist which explains and shows you exactly how it works. (No ideas? There is a toolbox on «The horse»)
    * Result: A collection of impressions & insights, media (video, audio, images, text, etc.) and maybe new evolving questions.

  5. 9:30 - Reflection in the class (takeaways), questions? Homework


Homework

  • Progress/Completing C-Project Tasks  =>all material, texts, media must be collected on The Horse under the appropriate project category

*Missing students:Edmond, Dani (1)

W17: 01/14 Friday* 2022

Program

  1. 7:10 - Welcome, Program & Warm up
    FYI =>Documentary about Bruno Manser
    >Die Stimme des Regenwaldes (Movie, bis 16.1.22)
    >Laki Penan (Documentary about Bruno Manser, 16.1.22)

  2. Example for the Vision & Imagination step: "Sustainable packaging" (dontwastemy.energy)

  3. Important: >Guidelines for project work
    Info about KoboToolbox - this is our project tool for online-surveys!
    =>advantages: Open source, for free, unlimited respondents, also works offline.

  4. C-Project Task 7: Communication - Inform about the meetings in the collaboration team
    =>Meeting min 1x per week (When? With whom? Which communication channel (e.g. Zoom, WhatsApp, ...)? What was the result or the decision for further actions?
    =>Post on The Horse, Categories: your class, your project category; Tag: meetings

  5. C-Project Task 8: THE EXPERIENCE
    Perform your experience (research project related to your research question). For example the team could visit a company and do an interview on site! There are different ways to perform something new: For example designing an experiment, doing an interview or survey, asking questions to an experienced person or scientist which explains and shows you exactly how it works. (No ideas? There is a toolbox on «The horse»)
    * Result: A collection of impressions & insights, media (video, audio, images, text, etc.) and maybe new evolving questions.

  6. 9:30 - Reflection in the class (takeaways), questions? Homework


Homework

  • Progress/Completing C-Project Tasks  =>all material, texts, media must be collected on The Horse under the appropriate project category

*Missing students: Alexandra, Savina, Cheyenne (via Teams), Mario (via Teams), Elena?

W16: 01/07 Friday* 2022

Distance learning special via MS Teams - Decision of the school management: All teaching will take place online via teams from 3 - 8 January 2022
Reminder: reports about the state of the art of the collaboration project, communication team for Social media channels
>Happy New Year - good luck, long life & prosperity

Program

  1. 7:10 - Welcome, Program & Warm up

  2. 7:20-7:55 -Approved projects =>Overview list with team members, collaboration partners and audio visual presentation =>who is missing?
    C-Project Task 4: Propagate your project on the Mural (digitale Pinwand) so all connected students have an opportunity to collaborate (add a snip to your private OneNote section as a proof)
    >Mural link (you must insert your name; please only add but do not delete squares or sticky notes!)
    ---Break time 7:55-8:05---

  3. 8:05 - Intro to Befter (before & arfter the experience) steps ::
    C-Project Task 5: Vision & Imagination step (post on The Horse)
    >Description here
    8:15-8:35 - Categories: your class, your project category
    Tag: vision-imagination
    =>Tip: one post per student, comment each others post
    ---Intermezzo - Discussion in breakout rooms---
    ---Break time 8:50-8:55---

  4. 8:55 - KoboToolbox - this is our project tool for online-surveys!
    =>advantages: Open source, for free, unlimited respondents, also works offline.

  5. 9:15-9:35 - Intro and C-Project Task 6: Research step (post on The Horse)
    =>do professional link settings (check the manual)
    Categories: your class, your project category
    Tag: research

  6. 9:35 - Reflection in the class (takeaways), questions? Homework


Homework

  • Completing C-Project Tasks
  • C-Project Task 7: Communication - Inform about the meetings in the collaboration team
    =>Meeting min 1x per week (When? With whom? Which communication channel (e.g. Zoom, WhatsApp, ...)? What was the result or the decision for further actions?
    =>Post on The Horse, Categories: your class, your project category; Tag: meetings

*Missing students: Edmond, Dani, Elena

*Christmas & New Year Holidays:: 19.12.21-2.01.22*

W15: 12/17 Friday* 2021

W15: 12/17/2021 - Class photo or video, reports about the state of the art of the collaboration project, testimonial interview (Lars, Dharany), Profile pics (Soumaya, Savina); Mind the post links and categories (recap by teacher) Teacher's concent =>Category "Approved projects"

Program

  1. Intro & Warm up
    >The wiki preview box:)
    >Guidelines for project work
  1. C-Project Task 2: Short audio-visual presentation of your project idea
    See example here     of "martime transportation"
    Categories: Your class, Project pitch
  2. C-Project Task 3: Concept of your project idea
    See example here
    -------you get your own Project Category-----
  3. Your project category on The Horse (for the collection of drafts & material for your magic composition in progress)
    =>... [in progress, related to your topic, assigned by the teacher]
  4. C-Project Task 4: Propagate your project on the Mural (digitale Pinwand) so all connected students have an oportunity to collaborate (add a snip to your private OneNote section as a proof)
  5. C-Project Task 5: Vision & Imagination step (befter), [in progress]
  6. C-Project Task 6: Research step (befter), [in progress]
  7. C-Project Task 7: C-Team Meetings and communication
  8. Tools: How to reg. conducting an interview, online-survey, video making, etc.

Reflection & discussion in the class (questions? takeaways)


Homework
>Project work (mandatory): At least until C-Project Tasks 3. 
>Advanced (optional): Add your project to the Mural (digitale Pinwand) so all connected students have an oportunity to collaborate
>Mural link (please only add but do not delete squares or sticky notes!)

*Missing students: Dani, Edmond, Mario, Zimmi, Alexandra, Cheyenne

W14: 12/10 Friday* 2021

Reminder: Comments' publishing =>see tick in your OneNote (task 10), Collaboration partners, Presentation of idea (see examples), photos (big team)

Program

  1. Intro & Warm up
    >merry-christmas-china
    >How much energy do I consume per day?
  2. C-Project Task 1: Collaboration partners
    (C-Project = Collaboration Project)
    =>How will you build a collaboration team across borders & cultures? With whom? (Post on The Horse, Categories: Your class, Collaboration partners)
    Please start to add the link to The Horse in your private OneNote section "Project"

  3. C-Project Task 2: Short audio-visual presentation of your project idea
    See example here     of "martime transportation"
    Categories: Your class, Project pitch
  4. C-Project Task 3: Concept of your project idea
    See examples here (knowledge pool)
    Categories: Your class, Concept
    -------you get your own Project Category-----
  5. Your project category on The Horse (for the collection of drafts & material for your magic composition in progress)
    =>... [in progress, related to your topic, assigned by the teacher]
  6. Project Task 4: Imagination step (befter), [in progress]
  7. Project Task 5: Research step (befter), [in progress]
  8. Tools: How to reg. conducting an interview, online-survey, video making, etc.
Reflection & discussion in the class (questions? takeaways)


Homework
>Project work: each team member can report on the status of the project; add the tasks (links to The Horse) to your private section on The Class OneNote, Section "C-Project" (=Collaboration project). Completing at least C-Project Task 1.

>Horizon expansion: >Merry Christmas China
*Participating by Teams: Jana
*Missing students: Lucie, Andrei, Fabio

W13: 12/03 Friday* 2021

Reminder: Profile pic? How to insert an audio; Ideas for collaboration; Interim assessment, Interesting topics: What about the construction or building industry? (Bauwirtschaft), Zoom session this afternoon, 15:00 =>who will participate? (please let me know via Teams in advance)

Program

  1. Intro & Warm up => living-without-concrete-das-kreishaus (until 21:35)
  2. Critical thinking: What is your opinion reg. the Consumption booster
  3. Listening to some audios (audio files, podcasts)
    =>How to upload an audio (see manual)
  4. Your comment writing =>how to publish your comment on dontwastemy.energy
    >Some Examples of "Best practice"
  5. Reminder Task 15: Speedy post comment writing
    >Assigned by the teacher [in progress]
  6. Reminder Task 16: Team work (randomly chosen, description see below)
  7. Task 17: Festival of project ideas: What is your "Heart project"? Write a mini concept (post on The Horse); here are some examples: What’s your goal and how can it be achieved?
    Categories: Your class, Heart project
  8. Reflection & discussion in the class (questions? takeaways)


Homework
>Task 17 =>before you start your project ask for the teacher's approval (Zustimmung) =>do not forget, that you have to go for a collaboration across cultures and/or borders

 *Missing students: Celia (participation via Teams), Edmond (1), Dani (1), Soumaya,

W12: 11/26 Friday* 2021

Program

  1. Intro & Warm up =>Audiovisual: Listen to Wikipedia (listen.hatnote.com)
    =>improving the world's knowledge
  2. Listening to some audios (audio files, podcasts)
  3. How to upload an audio (see manual)
  4. About E&T and its goals: What it is & what it's not.
  5. Feedback E&T :: VZ21 Feedback form (MS Forms)
  6. About comment writing:
    >Some Examples of "Best practice"
  7. Task 15: Speedy post comment writing
    >Assigned by the teacher [in progress]
  8. Task 16: Team work (randomly chosen, description see below)
  9. Reflection & discussion in the class (questions? takeaways)

Task 16 (Project start): Team work (randmomly chosen)
Goal of the semester: Website contribution on www.dontwastemy.energy
in collaboration with team members of foreign countries =>see map on www.the-horse.education
Some questions are:
What do we need? What are the important questions? What are the advantages of an international collaboration project? What difficulties could arise? What are the chances?
How can you get connected and involved? How can you become a team?
    a) discussion in the team (1 piece of paper)
    b) Team leader presents his/her ideas/tools/strategy
Product: Drawing, mind map, notes (Material: sheet of paper with the name of all members and the team leader)
>Take a picture of your result, resize it and upload it (post on The Horse, Category: your class, collaboration teams

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Homework
>Completing task 16
>Project ideas: rating, commenting, new ideas
>Reading: Consumption booster
>Horizon expansion: The secrets of mathematics

 *Missing students: Savina

W11: 11/19 Friday* 2021

Reminder: Publishing comments on dontwastemy.energy, Interim assessments

Program

  1. Waking up - Today's program, Intro =>here some facts and live maps

    Air Traffic Flightradar24 (Live air traffic)
    Marine Traffic Life map of cargo boats and ship traffic worldwide (marinetraffic.com)
    Worldometers Environment (worldometers.info)
    =>What about the construction or building industry? (Bauwirtschaft)

  2. Task 12 Rating round part I (rate all project ideas & give a comment to at least 6 ideas) =>What topics would you be interested in?
  3. Skills for handling The Horse 2021/22
    -Rating  -Comment writing
    -How to shorten a post with [more]
    -Mind the picture size =>kB (NOT MB)
    -Tags are lower case letters (Kleinbuchstaben)
  4. Task 13 (team work) Discussion of your chosen contribution on www.dontwastemy.energy in randomly chosen teams of 3
    1) Present your post and your comment to the team
    2) Discuss and fill out the Checklist for dontwastemy.energy together (see OneNote collaboration space)
  5. Task 14 Speedy post (Teams of 2):
    =>deepen your knowledge, choose a topic of FocusTerra (Resources & Circular Economy) and create a "Speedy post" (see components), include a self-made audio file (podcast). Categories: RESOURCES, your class Tags: speedy post, audio
    >How to insert an audio into your post
  6. Reflection & discussion in the class (questions? takeaways)


Homework
-Completing task 14
-Do you have ideas for collaborations across cultures and borders? Just collect ideas and we will discuss it next Friday. Tip: write down a few ideas in your private section "Project" of the E&T Class OneNote.

 *Missing students: Dani, Somaya, Giuseppe

W10: 11/12 Friday* 2021

Program

  1. Waking up - Today's program, Intro
    Dani's presentation of task 9.
  2. Repetition Quiz 2: Focus terra, Circular Economy >test your knowledge
    =>Add a snip of the result to your personal section of the Class OneNote "Quizzes" (Q2 : Focus terra, CE)
  3. Task 11 :: Festival of project ideas (Homework, see below)
    =>For each project idea please create a separate post on The Horse (2 ideas resp. posts per student),
    consisting of a (1) meaningful title or question, (2) A brief statement of why this topic is important (in the context of E&T or a sustainable economy), (3) an appropriate picture in kB (not MB), uploaded in the folder VZ21. (Categories: VZ21 Zurich Wetzikon, Project ideas)
  4. Skills for handling The Horse 2021/22
    -Insert a profile picture (snip it out small)
    -How to write a post in a professional way: Example Festival of project ideas above
    >How to insert an image
    >How to insert links correctly *)
    -how to shorten a long post: [more]
    *)The GIANT Horse or Knowledge pool
  5. Reflection & discussion in the class (questions? takeaways)


Homework
Quiz 3 The Horse training >Improve & test your knowledge
=>Add a snip of the result to your personal section of the Class OneNote "Quizzes" (Q3 : The Horse training)

 *Missing students: Alexandra, Sophie, Giuseppe

W9: 11/05 Friday* 2021

Program

  1. Waking up - Intro video "The earth destroyers"
  2. Team presentations (Task 9, see below)
    *)missing teams 4/12 (completed 3/12)
  3. Active learning, learning through experience, bili & CLIL
    The Horse Concept =>Overview
    -Pages (teaching material)
    -Posts (students)
    -Categories, Tags
    -Knowledge Pool, Toolbox, The giant Horse
  4. Login to The Horse 2021/22
    -Enrollment
    -Profile
    -How to write a post
    -How to insert a picture
    -How to insert a link
  5. Task 11 :: Festival of project ideas (Homework, see below)
  6. Reflection & discussion in the class (questions? takeaways)


Homework
Task 11 :: Festival of project ideas
=>For each project idea please create a separate post on The Horse (2 ideas resp. posts per student),
consisting of a (1) meaningful title or question, (2) A brief statement of why this topic is important (in the context of E&T or a sustainable economy), (3) an appropriate picture in kB (not MB), uploaded in the folder VZ21. (Categories: VZ21 Zurich Wetzikon, Project ideas)

*Missing students: Giuseppe

W8: 10/29 Friday* 2021

Reminder: Presentation Resources/Focus terra, Comment writing, Crosswords,
missing Quiz-task: Sophie, Fabio, Andrei.

Program

  1. Intro & Warm up technical terms =>random generator
  2. Team presentations (Task 9, see below)
    *)missing teams 4/12
  3. About web comment writing. What you should consider.
    Examples "The lifecycle of things" or "from where to where?" (dontwastemy.energy)
    Intro to Task 10
    The life cycles of 25 “things”     had to be discovered as far and as intensely as possible in the given time by 63 students: i.e. finding the roots of its origin (e.g. natural resources, mineral resources, natural/artificial substances, biological/technical cycles) and its end of life (end of pipe) or rebirth (reuse, recycle, etc.).

  4. Reflection & discussion in the class (questions? takeaways)

Task 9: Team Presentations: min 4 to max 8 minutes per team (team work). All your notes, material and sources should be accessible in OneNote (collaboration space).

Quality criteria

  • Quality of presentation (wirkt gut vorbereitet, Blick ins Publikum, möglichst frei)
  • Language (bili, klar, verständlich)
  • Content: Qualität Inhalt, Aussagekraft, Fragen, Vocab)
  • Media: Text, images, sources, zuverlässige Quellen, Texte gut aufbereitet, gute Auswahl
  • Question: At least 1 accurate question on your topic with 3 multiple choice answers or true/false answers.
  • Vocab: important (technical) terms (Fachbegriffe und wichtige Ausdrücke)

Material: Resources - content of topics and material

Homework
Task 10 (teams of 2): "from where to where?" (dontwastemy.energy)
Professional comment writing: choose a web contribution on the students' project website "dontwastemy.enery" (see Class OneNote collaboration space)
=>Discuss in your team of 2 and write a first draft using the comment writing guidelines.

*Missing students: Giuseppe, Cheyenne, Soumaya, Edmond, Dani

Standortbestimmung bis 25.10.21

*Autumn vacation: 10/10 - 10/24/2021*

W7: 10/08 Friday* 2021

Reminder: Your crosswords - check it out!

 Basic knowledge - Resources for life 

 *)The GIANT Horse (knowledge pool), please mind the login steps:

  1. Step 1 >Login (User: knowledge PW: pool*today)
    =opens the door to "the library"
  2. Step 2 >after your login click a second time on the link above
    => so you get to "the manual's room of the library"

Knowledge
Learning objectives (overall goals):

  • den Weg vom Rohstoff bis zur Entsorgung (Produktlebezyklus) an Beispielen beschreiben
  • die ökologischen und sozialen Auswirkungen der Rohstoffgewinnung und -nutzung (Anbau und Gewinnung, Transport, Verarbeitung, Entsorgung) an Beispielen beurteilen
  • Competencies: Info about knowledge retention (learning pyramid)

Task 9: Team Presentations: min 4 to max 8 minutes per team (team work). All your notes, material and sources should be accessible in OneNote (collaboration space).

Quality criteria

  • Quality of presentation (wirkt gut vorbereitet, Blick ins Publikum, möglichst frei)
  • Language (bili, klar, verständlich)
  • Content: Qualität Inhalt, Aussagekraft, Fragen, Vocab)
  • Media: Text, images, sources, zuverlässige Quellen, Texte gut aufbereitet, gute Auswahl
  • Question: At least 1 accurate question on your topic with 3 multiple choice answers or true/false answers.
  • Vocab: important (technical) terms (Fachbegriffe und wichtige Ausdrücke)

Material: Resources - content of topics and material

Homework
Task 9, be ready for your presentation after the holidays.

*Missing students: Kim

W6: 10/01 Friday* 2021

Reminder: The Carbon Cycle (edx.org), Quiz Chemistry workshop, examples dontwastemy.energy (Ca), comment writing. Crosswords. Self-made experiment (video)

Program

  1. Intro & Warm up technical terms =>random generator
    =>Pitching task 6 done by all students?
  2. Example Lithium (Li-Io-Batteries)
    =>Periodic table
    =>Lithium-Ionen-Akkus (risikosicherheit.ch)
    =>Prof. Dr. Thomas Driesner, Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zürich, «Zur Geologie von Lithium: Wirtschaftlich nutzbare Li-Vorkommen, geografische Verteilung und langfristige Perspektiven» (presentation until 10:11)
  3. Task 7 Crossword "Matter": test your knowledge!
    Add a snip of the result to your personal section of the Class OneNote (Task 7: Crossword Matter)

  4. State of the art of the Chemistry workshop & Portfolio
    =>Learning objectives: see page 18 (what objectives did you fulfill so far?)
    =>Learning groups randomly built (mention the name of the learning group members in your portfolio, maximum 4 students)

  5. Quiz 1: Test your knowledge so far.
    =>Do a snip of your result and add it to your private section of the Class OneNote "Quizzes and tests"

  6. Reflection & discussion in the class (questions? takeaways)

Homwork:

Task 8 (Teams of 2): Create your own crossword (suggested tool: learningapps)
=>You can include all the knowledge you have acquired in Environment & Technology so far and ask questions about it. Add the link and if possible the snip out of the generated QR Code in the Section "Crosswords" (see Collaboration Space) of the Class OneNote. (Do not forget to mention the team names)

=>Chemistry workshop: Improvement of your portfolio and learning diary on OneNote (private section Portfolio)
=>Self paced (im eigenen Tempo)
=>Communicate your goals and achievements (portfolio), e.g. questions, interesting parts and technical terms, explanations to/from your peers (class mates), repetition or new learning success, own research and links, etc.

*Missing students: Alina, Sophie, Andrei, Fabio,

W5: 09/24 Friday* 2021

Program

  1. Intro & Warm up technical terms =>random generator
  2. State of the art of the Chemistry workshop & Portfolio
    =>Learning objectives: see page 18 (what objectives did you fulfill so far?)
    =>Build learning groups     (mention the name of the learning group members in your portfolio, maximum 4 students)
  3. Task 6 completed :: pitching (Team work) - C   O   H   N   S   P
    =>What does "pitching" mean? Taking a message to the audience, in a short and concise way, focus on the essentials, including story telling (picture, example), try to make the audience curious.
    Material: Six main elements in living things >Six_main_elements.pdf (5.77 mb)
    =>Preparation of one element by each team. Pitch of 60s (1 min) in class.
  4. Example Lithium (Li-Io-Batteries)
    =>Periodic table
    =>Lithium-Ionen-Akkus (risikosicherheit.ch)
    =>Prof. Dr. Thomas Driesner, Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zürich, «Zur Geologie von Lithium: Wirtschaftlich nutzbare Li-Vorkommen, geografische Verteilung und langfristige Perspektiven» (presentation until 10:11)

Homwork:
=>Chemistry workshop: Improvement of your portfolio and learning diary on OneNote (private section Portfolio)
=>Self paced (im eigenen Tempo)
=>Communicate your goals and achievements (portfolio), e.g. questions, interesting parts and technical terms, explanations to/from your peers (class mates), repetition or new learning success, own research and links, etc.

*Missing students: Dani, Edmond

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W4: 09/17/2021 - teachers' excursion

W3: 09/10 Friday* 2021

Program

  1. Intro & Warm up technical terms =>random generator
  2. Cause (Ursachen) & impact (Folgen, Auswirkungen) of global warming
    =>example in Switzerland, Glacier melt (dontwastemy.energy)
    =>sifting media and articles, discussion, pinboard design
  3. Task 6 :: pitching (Team work) - C   O   H   N   S   P
    =>What does "pitching" mean? Taking a message to the audience, in a short and concise way, focus on the essentials, including story telling (picture, example), try to make the audience curious.
    Material: Six main elements in living things >Six_main_elements.pdf (5.77 mb)
    =>Preparation of one element by each team. Pitch of 60s (1 min) in class.
  4. Intro Chemistry workshop & Portfolio
  5. Supplement, getting informed: CO2 compensation (example Kassensturz)

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>>Intro video: Powers of 10
>>To the Workshop Chemistry (Basic knowledge, you can find the material in the Content Library of the Class OneNote)

Task: Record your learning process in your personal portfolio (private section in the Class OneNote). Document and reflect in a professionally correct and detailed manner. Create a vocab. Write down further questions and thoughts.
Info: What is a portfolio? (knowledge pool, at present in the Content Library of the Class OneNote)

Homwork:
=>Chemistry workshop: Improvement of your portfolio and learning diary on OneNote (private section Portfolio)

W2: 09/03 Friday* 2021

*Reminder: The Horse accounts, Class OneNote, Link to "What is a portfolio".

Program

  1. Intro & Warm up technical terms =>random generator
  2. Double check task 1, communication & Class OneNote, Vocab of technical terms
  3. Cause (Ursachen) & impact (Folgen, Auswirkungen) of global warming
    =>Video summary by National Geographic: Causes and Effects of Climate Change 
    =>Internet research about causes & impacts (team work): reliable sources? Organisation & interests? year?
  4. Energy basics (knowledge pool)
  5. Task 3 :: Fossil fuels: What are the conditions (four different things that must happen) in order to get fossil fuels? =>Check out the video
    Info about fossil fuels (edx.org)
  6. Task 5 :: IPCC: Reading articles from different sources (discussion in the team, please add the names of the team members, notes regarding the articles and discussions in your Class OneNote section "Tasks")
  7. Supplement, getting informed: CO2 compensation (example Kassensturz)

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Homwork:
Task 4: Check the news and look for articles about global warming (reliable sources): Communication of facts, causes, effects, measures? (Teams of 2), bring the article preferably in paper form (for the pinboard)

W1: 08/27 Friday* 2021

Program

  1. Welcome & Introduction
  2. About "Technik + Umwelt" =>Environment & Technology =>The Horse Concept
    =>learning by knowing and explaining concepts (Begriffe)
    =>you can explain technical terms orally, in writing, with the help of sketches
  3. The greenhouse effect
  4. Basic knowledge in Environment & Technology

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Intro climate change and greenhouse effect - causes and effects (link THE19/20)
>>Learning objective: you can explain the origin of the greenhouse effect
>>You know what's the relation between global warming and non-renewable energy
Technical terms, vocab: Global change, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gas, short-wave visible radiation ("light"), infrared radiation, to reflect, to transform, average global temperature, natural vs human made (anthropogenic).

Task 1  Explanation and sketch of "The greenhouse effect": take a picture of your tasks (on plain paper, 3 stages) and insert it on your class OneNote (Homework, add the 3 stages to your private section of the Class OneNote VZ21 Environment + Technology)

Task 2  Explanation of the technical term "Tipping point" (Homework)
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Homwork:
a) Tipping point, explanation, examples
b) what's the relation between global warming and non-renewable energy?

*Teacher's notes: The Horse accounts, Class OneNote, Link to "What is a portfolio". Missing students: Celia

*START*

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