Activity 2. Field research and Forum questions 2
Purposes:
- Provide students with some tools and tools for data collection in a field investigation, for example: a field diary, a logbook, or a checklist.
- Through a field research students learn to recognize the different sources pollutants of the air, the ground and the water.
Materials:
- Tablet or electronic device that allows them to record what they have observed.
- Checklist printed for the teams participants to register everything they go sight-seeing and observing in the field research.
- Video camera and / or photographic digital images to document the place visited where students conducted the field research.
To explore the ground!
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.
To conduct a field investigation, develop a field log or digital record, and use a checklist to record and organize what you are viewing.
After touring the neighborhood and identify the main environmental problems, work with their teams to answer the following questions:
Key questions:
- What is the area?
- How is the natural environment?
- How is the relief of the entity?
- What are the natural resources available?
- Are there rivers, lakes or ponds in the region? What are they?
- What are the prevailing climate and to what factors responds?
- What is the relationship among the relief, hydrography and climates in your environment?
- What type of vegetation grows around it?
- What are the animal species characteristic of the region?
- What activities are in your municipality?
- What they are and how they have affected biodiversity?
- How human actions have transformed and damaged the environment in the area?
- 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 their blog.
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 their blog and in the Facebook.
check list
The field log or book diary is a notebook where you write what will be watched; in this case, on the biodiversity of species and ecosystems that surrounds them. For example, if there are recorded rivers or other water source in your area, if there are forests or rangelands, agricultural, mining, climate and its relationship with the flora, etc.; and based on these natural resources, identify productive activities that take place: if there are oil fields, geothermal plants, if one crop, livestock, fisheries, forestry or other tourist area.
This data can be collected through your checklist (print or digital).
Archive all data and materials from his observation and research, to develop a digital presentation which compiled everything all the information get in the field; images where portray their natural environment, the biodiversity, the socioeconomic characteristics and activities presented that evidence of impairment in the geosystems (hydrosphere: rivers; lithosphere: soils; and atmosphere: air).
Teachers propose a brainstorming with a reflection about the environmental impact of economic activities in one location, ie, how human activity determines the environmental conditions of a community; for example, if a factory is not careful in emissions yielding surely there the air will be contaminated.
Afterwards, the students share in the Discussion Forum, in his Blog and through the Facebook the cases of environmental degradation to have been identified in your locally.
Forum questions
- Describe the site where you conducted your field research and how you developed it!
- What are the environmental problems that affect your community?
- What actions can be taken in your community to improve the environmental problem which you research?
- What are the short-, medium-and long-term consequences of the environmental problems that you observed?
- What would your community be like, if preventive measures are not taken to mitigate the damage in the environment and make sustainable use of natural resources?