Friday, May 29, 2015

UoI: Here, there, water everywhere

June 1st. - 5th


Distribution and Availability of Usable Water

The World's Water

"Water, Water, Everywhere...." You've heard the phrase, and for water, it really is true. Earth's water is (almost) everywhere: above the Earth in the air and clouds, on the Earth as rivers, oceans, ice, plants, and inside the Earth in the top few miles of the ground.


Taken from: earth.rice.edu/


The globe image below, is meant to show how much actual water exists, as compared to the total size of the Earth. The spheres look small because it is compared to the size of the whole globe. What it show is that Earth's water resides in a very thin slice all around the Earth's surface.
(Taken from http://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthwherewater.html)


All Earth's water, liquid fresh water, and water in lakes and rivers

Spheres showing:

  • (1) All water (sphere over western U.S., 860 miles = 1,384km. in diameter)
  • (2) Fresh liquid water in the ground, lakes, swamps, and rivers (sphere over Kentucky, 169.5 miles = 273km. in diameter), and 
  • (3) Fresh-water lakes and rivers (sphere over Georgia, 34.9 miles = 56km in diameter).
Credit: Howard Perlman, USGS; globe illustration by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (©); Adam Nieman.




Informational Videos:

Distribution of Earth Water (Karen Slaton /Standard YouTube License)

Distribution of Water n Earth (Sience Earth / Standard YouTube License)



Group 1: Groundwater

What is Groundwater? (Quest Science / YouTube)

It's Called Groundwater (By ProvinceofBC / YouTube)



Group 2: Ice Caps, Glaciers, Lakes and Rivers

What are Glaciers? (MocomiKids / YouTube)

How a glacier forms? (Daft Colt / YouTube)


How Glaciers Move (study.com)


Glacier Movement (study.com)



What is a lake? (education.nationalgeographic.com)


Group 3: Availability of Usable Water Around the World

Fresh Water Scarcity (Ted-Ed / YouTube)

Where We Get Our Fresh Water (Ted-Ed / YouTube)

World Water Day: Animated Short

The World Water Crisis (Ilustrated Ideas's Channel / YouTube)

Water Facts and Statistics (The Infographics Show / YouTube)

The Global Water Crisis (Take Part (YouTube)

Millions Lack Safe Water

Lack of Water Around the World (Wikipedia)


Goup 4: Availability of Usable Water in Peru



ACTIVITY


  1. Talk to your group members and choose a leader and a secretary.
  2. Read together the group questionary and write your name next to the question picked. 
  3. Every group member must answer at least 1 question on the list.
  4. Fill in your index card according to the model.
  5. When finish, check the information with an ICT teacher.
  6. If your answers are ok you can help any other student on your group.
Index card: UoI Water

When all the group is ready, start working your class wall, respect the room in the wall for your group information. Attach to your post a picture, a link or a video related to your answer.


WATER 3A            WATER 3B           WATER 3C          WATER 3D




Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Copyright

Second Term - May 18th. - 22nd.


Let's fill in the KWL table!



Group Work:

Group 1: What is Copyright? - Examples of creative works.
Group 2: How does the Copyright work?
Group 3: Why Copyright was created/established?
Group 4: How is Copyright connected to authors and artists?
How is Copyright connected to users?
Group 5: What is our responsibility as a website information users?


*Read the texts below about the topic.

Follow the links and watch the videos about Copyright and Plagiarism








Once finished the group work, follow the link to complete the class COPYRIGHT wall:

THIRD A                THIRD B                   THIRD C                   THIRD D


Extra work; you can complement the information on the wall with the following questions, every group member must choose a different question and post it on the wall:
  • What does the little letter R mean?
  • What is the meaning of TM?
  • What is the public domain?
  • What is "fair use"?
  • What is "Internet piracy"?
  • How do you cite a resource from Internet?