UOI

Lund's Municipality (Council)
[|Lund] [|Swedens Municipalities]

Assessment Rubric

Transdisciplinary theme = How we organise ourselves

Central Idea: = Communities **provide services and systems to allow them to work.**=

Concepts:
Function, Form, Reflection

Lines of Inquiry:

 * The reasons people live in the local community.
 * The variety of factors including climate, geography and resources that influence the growth and location of communities.
 * The systems that are needed to support the community.
 * The effects that planning, or the lack thereof might have on a community.

Unpacking
What is a community. Why do people live in a community? What systems are needed to support a community?

Answer first by yourself. Then pairs. Then in groups of 4. Mark will decide pairs and groups.

system |ˈsistəm| noun 1 a set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole, in particular • a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network : the state railroad system | fluid is pushed through a system of pipes or channels. • Physiology a set of organs in the body with a common structure or function : the digestive system. • the human or animal body as a whole : you need to get the cholesterol out of your system. • Computing a group of related hardware units or programs or both, esp. when dedicated to a single application. • Geology (in chronostratigraphy) a major range of strata that corresponds to a period in time, subdivided into series. • Astronomy a group of celestial objects connected by their mutual attractive forces, esp. moving in orbits about a center : the system of bright stars known as the Gould Belt. • short for crystal system.

2 a set of principles or procedures according to which something is done ; an organized scheme or method : a multiparty system of government | the public school system. • orderliness ; method : there was no system at all in the company. • a method of choosing one's procedure in gambling. • a set of rules used in measurement or classification : the metric system. • ( the system ) the prevailing political or social order, esp. when regarded as oppressive and intransigent : don't try bucking the system.

** !!!!!!!!!!!! Exhibition !!!!!!!!!!!! ** Concepts! Plan your goals for the week.

Plan! Goals!
How are we going to use Music and Art and Swedish to help us present our inqury?

Websites and resources


Newspaper article about renewable energy Statistics A CO2 fuel car Kid Wind project Conserving energy US Environmental Protection Agency - Air trends EU Environment Agency - Greenhouse gases Oil consumption Britannica School edition World Book UN - Year of sustainable energy CREATE is a not for profit body working with communities and organisations to reduce the effects of climate change and build a sustainable future. National Geographic - Kids Kids.Net.Au - A search engine for students Energy Car pollution Energy use in Sweden Generating Electricity



=What is media anyway?= A medium is a method of communication. This Wiki, for example, is a medium. If you have more than one medium, you've got "media". Media that reach a massive audience - TV, radio, video games, magazines and newspapers - are called "mass media". //n.//**1.** A phrase expressing the aims or nature of an enterprise, organization, or candidate; a motto. //tr.v.// **per·suad·ed**, **per·suad·ing**, **per·suades**To induce to undertake a course of action or embrace a point of view by means of argument, reasoning, or entreaty: "to make children fit to live in a society by persuading them to learn and accept its codes" (Alan W. Watts). See Usage Note at [|convince].
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= Assignment 1 - The big assessment task! = Make your own advertisement using any medium. Your work will be assessed using this rubric.

= Assignment 2 = Write a news story for newspaper or do an Interview or survey!
 * Plan it!
 * **What, why, when, where, who, how???**
 * Why are you interviewing this person? Why are you doing this survey?
 * Interview. About 5 questions. Put a lot of thought into what questions you will ask. What kind of questions will you ask.
 * Survey. How many people will you survey? How many questions? (yes-no or amount questions)
 * Picture. What kind of visual/s will you use?
 * How will you record the answers?
 * When will you, the interviewer, interview the interviewee?

= Assignment 3 =
 * Make one, or more adverts for our newspaper.



= Newspaper =
 * Interviews
 * News stories
 * Weather (Ido, Jonathan)
 * Entertainment news
 * Games, puzzles etc.

Language/UOI Text book work - Advertising units book 4, 6 (see Language)

PBS
 * Check out this site from PBS - Public Broadcasting Service**

=Our ideas about HOW advertisements succeed in influencing people's decisions=
 * bright, big, persuasive sentences, joke, unusual things ...
 * big letter, a story easy to remember
 * they succeed through making a product visible
 * annoying songs may make an ad not work
 * cool product... somebody has it then everybody will want it
 * "You will never be beautiful without our cream."

Here is some ads about the beauty industry.

The beauty industry Beauty pressure

To be handed in!!! - Like today!

 * ==== Advertisement for assessment ====
 * ==== Interview for Language (newspaper)National Geographic - Kids ====