Pay More Attention to Sandstorm — Voice of the Students from Wind Bank of the World

1. Levels Aged from 15 to 17 (Detailed information is included in the file “Information about the Students”) Pay More Attention to Sandstorm — Voice of the students from Wind Bank of the World Project Overview 1 Learning Areas Geography, Information Technology 16 weeks Activity period Inside the campus: Multi-media Classroom Outside the campus: Immigrants Areas, Gobi , government agencies etc. (Please check the file “Teaching Environment” for more information) Teaching Environment 1. To help target students understand the formation of sandstorm and its disastrous impacts on people’s survival and life so that they can be closer to the solutions to sandstorm. 2. To help target students improve their skills to draw and fine-tune maps with drawing tools. 3. To make target students capable of acquiring, analyzing and processing well-defined information by means of information technology. 4. To enable target students to make web pages via software such as FrontPage. 5. To equip target students with an initial ability to acquire, store and edit video information by digital camera and DV. Objectives Documents

2. Keywords Pay More Attention to Sandstorm, subject web pages Pay More Attention to Sandstorm — Voice of the students from Wind Bank of the World Project Overview 2 In close connection with the local geopraphical features ---- ”World Wind Bank” and ”Area with a High Frequency of Sandstorm”, the project is designed to give the involved students a personal experience of the severity of sandstorm to improve them learn deeply,then the students make suject web pages which included with their study outcomes to communicate with the rest of the society their voice: Paying More Attention to Sandstorm. Activity Description Resources Microsoft Office 2003, Photoshop 6.0, Frontpage 2003, Movie Maker, Google Earth, Paintbrush Author Wang Jianpeng No. 1 Middle School, Guazhou County, Jiuquan City (Information about the other participating teachers is contained in the file “Information of Other Participating Teachers”) Document

3. Pay More Attention to Sandstorm — Voice of the students from Wind Bank of the World Teacher Planning and Management Project background and objective Project background and objective can be found in the document below “Project Background and Planning” Teaching Content Click the document below ”Teaching Content” to view teaching content Project Design For a detailed flow, please check the document below “Project Design Flow Chart” Documents

4. Pay More Attention to Sandstorm — Voice of the students from Wind Bank of the World Teaching Implementation and Reflection You can find implementation process in the document below “teaching implementation” Implementation 1. An overall evaluation of the project 2. A look back at some problems that have cropped up in the activity 3. Refine some key links （please click the document below “Teaching Reflection” for details ） Teachers’ reflection Documents

5. Courseware (1) A brief introduction to sandstorm (a description about its damage, distribution and solutions as well as the reasons for choosing this topic is presented in the format of PPT) (2) prevention and treatment of sandstorm（PPT） (3) Basics about Frontpage 2003 (Video course) http://www.enet.com.cn/eschool/zhuanti/frontpage/ (4) use of Movie Maker (video course) http://www.enet.com.cn/eschool/zhuanti/videostudio/ Pay More Attention to Sandstorm — Voice of the students from Wind Bank of the World Teaching Resources Students’ works (1) Acquire and edit all sorts of materials (check relevant file(s) for specific information) (2) Make short films based on videos (included in the subject website ) (3) A letter to WEF (included in the subject website ) （click documents below “A letter to WEE”） (4) The subject website — “paying more attention to sandstorm”, Voice from the students in the World Wind Bank Documents

6. Pay More Attention to Sandstorm — Voice of the students from Wind Bank of the World Assessment and Standards Click the documents below ”Mapping the Standards” to view the teaching resources used in the teaching of this learning project: Assessment Methods In line with standars about Geography and Information Technology course under New Curriculum Standard for Primary and Middle Schools, some indicators concerning this course are introduced to evaluate students’ performance through grade A, B, C and D. Assessment Rubrics Based on the activity design, I have subdivided the evaluation indicators into three aspects, including study of sandstorm, application of information technology, and participation. Mapping the Standards Mapping this project’s learning objectives against curriculum standards Document

7. Pay More Attention to Sandstorm — Voice of the students from Wind Bank of the World Teacher and School Information No. 1 Middle School, Guazhou County, Gansu Province Address: Number 3 Dongdajie, Guazhou County, Gansu Province Phone: 5528553 Fax: 5510999 E-MAIL: anxims@163.com URL: http://www.anxims.net.cn Wang Jianpeng Phone: 09375510992 Cell Phone:13909375992 QQ: 32600102 MSN: msitc092_wjp@hotmail.com E-MAIL: anxims@163.com