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Man vs Earth is a webquest developed so children can educate themselves with information on the Earth's cycles. They will concentrate on how the Earth cycles are beneficial to them and how what we are doing is effecting them in negative ways. After collecting the information they will have to be creative and create a promotion or campaign to educate other people outside their classroom and all around the world. The children will learn that even though they may feel small in this world their one step can make a big impact!
Who is this for?
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VELS Level 4
Intended Learning Outcomes for Man Vs Earth challenge:

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What is Man vs Earth?
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Who is this for?
This web quest was designed for a class of 20 children in Year 6 at VELS level 4 to be completed over a two month period. The students will be broken into 4 groups of 5. Each group will have their own cycle to follow, and each member of each group will have a particular role depending on the task. The cycles for each group will be chosen based on the children's ability level. Unknown to the children, some of the cycles are more involved then others. This allows the children to work at their level and have an important role in each task. It also allows all groups to participate in this WebQUest to the best of their ability and be engaged (not held back or confused) in every task.

Congratulations!!!! Your effforts could now inspire change all over the world!
You have completed your task and are now a member of the Man vs Earth Team! Because you're a member you now recieve a one of a kind "One Drop" T-shirt. These T-shirts are for you to keep! there will be time for you to personalize your shirt by adding your name in fabric paint to make it all your own. Everytime you look at this T-shirt you should remember how much you've learnt and your ability to change the world. You should be really proud.
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You have worked so
Take a bow for all your hard its time to take a bow!work!
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Please leave a comment about how you feel about your sustainability journey so far and some ways we could improve this WebQuest. We would really appreciate your thoughts.

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Congratulations!!!! Your effforts could now inspire change all over the world!
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You have completed different tasks such as creating your own mind map and board games, you have investigated new creative ways to share your ideas and discovered cycles in an experiment which will help you in creating your own life adventure in sustainability. You have learned about the different cycles and the different way the world affects us and how we affect the world. You have created great first steps to changing the world, lets see where those steps take you.
You have worked so hard its time to take a bow!

Evaluation
on some tasks, thesetasks. These will help
The rubrics used for peer and self assessments are included below:
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Your role is to facilitate communication between group members, make sure everyone is on task and looking at the bigger picture of the final task.
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Organisation:Organisation
Before begining each task, you will rotate the roles. In the case of Task 1, roles will be chosen at random and they will change for each person for every activity after that.
Each group will have an area in the classroom which contains storage facilities for information and ongoing projects, a section of wall on which to display information or interesting facts, relevant informative resources and access to computers. Within these areas groups work as a team and focus solely on their WebQuest. Each group is also given speciific material, such as notebooks, on which to record non-Internet based research as well as ideas. This paper-based material will be kept in the storage areas alotted for each group.

Man vs Earth is a webquest developed so children can educate themselves with information on the Earth's cycles. They will concentrate on how the Earth cycles are beneficial to them and how what we are doing is effecting them in negative ways. After collecting the information they will have to be creative and create a promotion or campaign to educate other people outside their classroom and all around the world. The children will learn that even though they may feel small in this world their one step can help change a lot!
Who is this for?
20 children in Year 6 at VELS level period. The childrenstudents will be groups of 5 children.5. Each group work at thiertheir level and
VELS Level 4
Intended Learning Outcomes for Man Vs Earth challenge:
Each group's allocated area of the classroom is also very important place in terms of this WebQuest. It should be a place in your classroom where each group can easily access computers, books, magazines, materials for writing, drawing, planning, room for rehearsing and spaces to keep and display important information.
Tasks such as the Board Game and the Experiment will require access to safety equipment, science materials and ingredients, as well as lots of Arts materials. For these tasks you might want to include an arts or science specialist teacher to help the students. You might also like to work in close conjunction with a ICT specialist to help you use a SmartBoard on Discovery Day and while the students work on their final assignment in particular which will most likely include some difficult aspects of ICT.
useful resources toyou could incorporate into your class for extension activities or to change some parts of this WebQuest to suit your classroom.
Carbon cycle
Cardon Cycle game
The Water Cycle
puzzle
Water Cycle Movie
Water cycle game
Water Cycle test
Energy Cycle
Kids & Energy
Water Cycle Movie
Rock cycle
Rock Crayon Activity

Introduction
YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9I3Q6-ZSTI
Image of Earth from Google Images search 'Earth'
Exploring Nature Educational Resource: http://www.exploringnature.org/db/detail_index.php?dbID=7&dbType=2t
Task 1
Image- Mind Map: Energy Saving Climate Change tips for your school from http://live-the-solution.com/wp-content/uploads/energy-audit-mindmap1.jpg
Task 2
Rock cycle experiment: Images from Google Images
Water Cycle experiment: http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/Energy_p021.shtml
-Pictures also from website.
Energy Cycle experiment: http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Science/Botany/BOT0046.html
Task 3
Monopoly picture from Google images under search ‘Monopoly’.
Magic School Bus episodes sourced from YouTube.
Task 4
Comic strip picture taken from Google images under search ‘comic strip’.
Storyboard template created by Amy Eagle using Word.
Make Beliefs Comix: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/
Task 5
Image from Google Images under search ‘TV production’.
Interview with a Scientist from YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F08fxpFCJY0
PicturesAll pictures not referred to above were taken from Google Images under search ‘Scientist’.
Final Assignment
Images from Google Images under search ‘take action’.Images.

To see that plants are part of many natural cycles.
RESOURCES/MATERIALS:
pencils, crayons
INTRO:
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In your group make an illustrated log of events for germination of the seedlings to the end of the experiment.

What does the phrase, "Like a breath of fresh air," mean to you? This common phrase can have different meanings: calming, relaxing, invigorating, energizing or CLEAN! After all, you never hear anyone say, "Like a breath of dirty air," do you? Find out how clean the air is in this simple experiment.
Introduction
unhealthy looking.
Breathing
Breathing clean air air pollution.
How
How clean is these questions.
Terms, Concepts and Questions to Start Background Research
and concepts:
air quality
smog
lungs
asthma
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