Stage 1. To explore my local environmet!

Students learn to recognize the different sources of air pollutants and water; and to identify those in your community. For it, they give a tour of his neighborhood, and identify environmental problems in your community (air pollution, water and / or soil). They take some pictures of the natural scenery and of the environment, where they displayed the main problems in your municipality.

After touring the neighborhood and identify the main environmental problems, work with their teams to answer the following questions:

Key questions:

  1. What is the area?
  2. How is the natural environment?
  3. How is the relief of the entity?
  4. What are the natural resources available?
  5. Are there rivers, lakes or ponds in the region? What are they?
  6. What are the prevailing climate and to what factors responds?
  7. What is the relationship among the relief, hydrography and climates in your environment?
  8. What type of vegetation grows around it?
  9. What are the animal species characteristic of the region?
  10. What activities are in your municipality?
  11. What they are and how they have affected biodiversity?
  12. How human actions have transformed and damaged the environment in the area?
  13. How could implement the sustainable development of natural resources on the environment?

From the answers to the questions, students in teams, make a draft of report on integrating all to share their ideas to the class and then put them in the forum.

After the exploration and gather all the images taken during your exploration of the environment, select all that allow you to develop a clip video or media presentation to represent the main environmental problems where the effects that have caused in your locality are reflected and put in in the Padlet of the project.