At this point I am still working on narrowing my project research down. I wanted to stop by the communications writing center and ask for some help with this. Right now I am thinking that I was to test young children's knowledge on climate change. I think that it is really important that kids are taught about conserving the environment at a young age. This could be crucial to future generation’s awareness of conservation of the environment. I want to test how much knowledge they are able to comprehend when it comes to the greenhouse effect and global warming. I think that this project could be really interesting in the results that it yields. I am very excited to get going on the lesson plan and to be able to interact with the children. I have no experience when it comes to communicating with young children so this will definitely be a big challenge. I received a lot of great feedback from my interviews and am excited to put some of the tips to use. This class is all about communication of environmental issues and this project will be very important since it is a whole new type of audience that I am trying to communicate with. This will definitely test my communication abilities but I am ready for the challenge!
-Atusa
Over and Out
15 years ago
2 comments:
Hi Atusa,
Your plan sounds great! I'm also heading down the same path as you- by trying to teach children about our precious Earth. Anywho, one thing I would encourage is make sure--when you're testing the children--to make the tests fun and exciting. Maybe approach it as a fun activity. I know as a little child I would get very nervous when hearing the word TEST. If you need any help here is a website I found that may help you out! It's a a bunch of websites on one that give you a link to interesting activities and games relating to green house gases and what-not. Good luck!
Toni
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/climate/change.htm#greenhouse
Thats a creative idea! Testing kid's knowledge will definitely be a challenge. I think that one thing you should consider when testing kids is how you go about doing that. I don't know if you have planned out the details of how your going to conduct your research, but I think you should consider making an activity out of your testing. Kids will always respond more enthusiastically if they are side tracked by what they are being tested on. Also I'm not sure about the age your are targeting either because climate change and related subjects are even hard for people our age to grasp so im not sure you will get a huge response from kids! Overall, I think it is a great idea and I'm very interested to see what you come up with. If you do ask them certain questions I would be cautious of how you word/frame the questions. Try not to be leading! Hope this helps!
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