River Pollution in Asia
Inter-disciplinary learning objectives
 Develop an understanding on impact of socioeconomic factors, life styles on rivers in Asia
 Develop a ICT and communication skills to interact
with their peers in other countries
 Create webpages depicting river pollution and its
impacts
River Pollution in Asia
Subject-specific learning objectives
Geography
 Compare past and present conditions of the rivers in
Yangze, Pearl rivers in China, Ganga,Yamuna, Krishna
and Musi rivers in India, Ciliwung river in Indonesia and
Kelani river in Sri Lanka
 Making a digital (?) map in the website to show rivers
and its condition in asia
ICT
 Collect information on the different rivers by surfing the
internet and other sources
 Develop an ability to use web 2.0 technologies
River Pollution in Asia
Subject-specific learning objectives
Geography
 Compare past and present conditions of the rivers in
Yangze, Pearl rivers in China, Ganga,Yamuna, Krishna
and Musi rivers in India, Ciliwung river in Indonesia and
Kelani river in Sri Lanka
 Making a digital (?) map in the website to show rivers
and its condition in asia
ICT
 Collect information on the different rivers by surfing the
internet and other sources
 Develop an ability to use web 2.0 technologies
River Pollution in Asia
 Description of the PBL
 Students from China, India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka
collaboratively contribute /create blog(s) about the rivers in their
localities. The student may visit or collect information on their
local rivers and the changes (nature of river – quality and
quantity of water, surrounding environment) occurred over
centuries which lead river pollution. The collected information is
critically analyzed through classroom and online discussion with
their peers to identify major factors contributed the river
pollution. The students engage discussion with own peers, interschool and school from other countries through EC forum to
understand causes for river pollution, practices which they can
adopt in their life style to reduce river pollution. The output may
be in the form of documents / postures / reports / stories / videos
were made by each school.
River Pollution in Asia
 Activity design
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Brainstorming: collecting information from various
sources about how rivers exists in the past and condition
of the present situation through discussion identifying
reasons and suggested practices
Data collection and discussion
Preparing document for EC web forum
Discussion and engaging with web 2.0 tools
Output making
River Pollution in Asia
ICT and tele-collabboration that we want to use
and our adjustification
 Use EC Website for students to feedback, sharing,
solving problems.
 Skype for both teachers and students to for
discussion
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 Assessment
1 Formative assessment for the expected learning
objectives
According to the expected learning objectives, teachers
design questionnaire, checklists for assessment.
2 Baseline data
Draw a concept map on river pollution.
3 Planned formative assessment and rubrics
Rubrics, portfolio of students’ work
4 Logistic preparation for the assessment
Forms and online checklist, questionnaires.
River Pollution in Asia
Our reflection
 Communication platform for all of the four
countries.
 Synchronizing Time
Members
 Chen Shu Lan
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Nonglinxia Road Primary School, China
Dian Novrini Al Azhar 9 Islamic Junior High School
Indonesia
Li Nihong
Nonglinxia Road Primary School, China
Liang Yan East China Normal University, China
M.G. Peiris Uva National College of Education, Srilanka
M. Rajendran
Department of Education, University of Delhi, India
V. Jagadeeshwar Rao EMRC, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India
Yu Yuanjie
Nonglinxia Road Primary School, China