2015+mid-term

For your mid-term exam, please respond to three of the directives below. All except the directive to write a story should be in essay form, approximately 500 words each.

The exam should be written independently, but you are free to discuss possible responses. I should not see duplication in the responses. The midterm essay is due by 5pm Wednesday, March 18. This exam contributes 10% to your overall grade

1) Write and illustrate a children's story that addresses at least five of EcoEd's literacy goals. Put your story in the format we will use with Tamarac 1st grader (see below). Submit your story as a ppt ready to show first graders. 

2) Describe the arguments made in the articles by Orr, Lakoff, and Ridley/Low about ways environmental sustainability should be framed (and justified)? Explain which arguments you find compelling, and why, then describe one activity for k-12 students would effectively frame environmental sustainability in a way suggested by one of these authors.

3) Describe the [|2013 prize-winning TedTalk by Sugata Mitra,] and the child-centered "SOLE" method he advocates. Then propose a SOLE (self-organizing learning environment) for sustainability education. Also see the "criticism" section of this [|wikipedia entry on Sugata Mitra]. Acknowledge this criticism in your proposal. These guidelines for the SOLE Challenge competition will also be helpful. 

4) Write an approximately 500 word essay describing how we can prepare students for careers possibly riveted by the kind of conflict that has riveted the career of Tyrone Hayes. See Aviv, Rachel. 2014. [|"A Valuable Reputation: After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursed him,"] The New Yorker. February.