How batteries work

Batteries are a triumph of science—they allow smartphones and other technologies to exist without anchoring us to an infernal tangle of power cables. Yet even the best batteries will diminish daily, slowly losing capacity until they finally die. Why does this happen, and how do our batteries even store so much charge in the first place? Adam Jacobson gives the basics on batteries.

Activity: After watching the video, discuss. 

How has the ability to store electrical energy in a battery changed the way humans live?

Resource: Edtalk

Glued - Video Game Addicted

Short film that that tells a story about a mother who tries to deal with her young video game addicted son. It was created by four students (Alon Tako, Guy Elnathan, Daniel Lichter and Sivan Kotek) at the Bezalel Academy of the Arts and Design in Israel as part of their 3rd year of animation studies.

Activity: After watching the video, role playing: in pairs imagine a dialog between the mother and the son explaining what are they reasons to act like they do.

Source: http://laughingsquid.com/glued-animated-short-about-a-mother-her-video-game-addict-son/

A different way to visualize

Activity: Individually answer this questions. 

• How do you visualize a year calendar?
• How do you visualize an addition?
• How do you visualize rhythm?

Source: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-different-way-to-visualize-rhythm-john-varney

Plastic bottles

What actually happens to the plastic if we just throw it away?

Activity: after watching the video we had this discussion:

If you could go back in time, would you stop the discovery of plastic? Or do you think this material offers us important benefits that outweigh its negatives?

From: TED Ed Lessons Worth Sharing

Landfill Harmonic

Landfill Harmonic- The world sends us garbage... We send back music.

The world generates about a billion tons of garbage a year. Those who live with it and from it are the poor – like the people of Cateura, Paraguay. And here they are transforming it into beauty. Landfill Harmonic follows the Orchestra as it takes its inspiring spectacle of trash-into-music around the world.

Activity: before watching a movie. In pairs discuss what can you create with recycled material? Give examples.

iMatter - Earth Day

Today is 22th of April. It is Earth Day.

Activity: watch the video.

Having the images of the video as an inspiration each student choose one good action of taking care of the Earth and one bad action. On a paper each student draws the good action and writes the iAction on a side of the paper. On the back the same for the bad action. 

This is what we got:

Sister Fa - Interview

Sister Fa is a Senegalese-born hip-hop artist and human rights activist. She is raising awareness about the harmful traditional practice of female genital cutting. She will be a keynote speaker at the AISA-GISS next Thursday.

Activity: After watching the interview, come up with a question related to the video and write it down.

The class is divided into two groups of five. Each member of the group receives a question and in turns are asked to read it loud to the rest of their group. As a group, the students must try and answer the question. 

This activity was done in a 20 minute advisory session. It can be done in two 10 minutes sessions. The first session: video watching and writing the questions, the second session: discussion of the questions.

Green Cities - Earth Day

This is one Earth Day leading up to April 22nd.

Activity: Brainstorm about Green cities in a big group.

Discuss the following terms:

• Energy
• Green Buildings
• Transportation

Watch this video: 

Sister Fa

Senegalese-born hip-hop artist and human rights activist, to raise awareness about the harmful traditional practice of female genital cutting. She will be a keynote speaker on the AISA-GISS next Wednesday.

Activity: listen to the music

Earth Day Activities

Activity: Listen to the song. The Little Mermaid - Under the Sea

Here is the link of Earth Day Playlist with 10 songs related with Earth Day.

Favorite Place in Nature

On April 22th is the Earth Day. We are starting with different activities related with the Earth Day.

Activity: In pairs.

Where is your favorite place in nature?  Write a description, draw or picture or describe the place to someone else. What makes it special?

The Right to Delirium - Eduardo Galeano

At the time I heard about Galeano's death, the Uruguayan writer, I listened for the first time to a piece of his work. The right to Delirium (El derecho al Delirio). I found it soinspirational that I immediately wanted to share with my students.

Activity: We read out this piece of work and at the end of the reading students came up with a sentence: "imagine a world where..."

The Right to Delirium - Eduardo Galeano

What if we were to fantasize, even for a moment? Let’s project our vision beyond the current world of infamy and imagine another possible world: a world...

Where the TV will no longer be the most important member of the family, but will be treated like the clothes iron or the washing machine;


Where people will work to live and will not live to work;
Where economists will not call the level of consumption “the standard of living”, nor will they confuse the quantity of things with the quality of life;
Where cooks will not believe that lobsters just love to be boiled alive;
And historians will not believe that countries just love to be invaded;
Where nobody will die of hunger, because nobody will die of indigestion;
Where street children will not be treated like garbage, because there will be no street children;
Where rich children will not be treated like money, because there will be no rich children;
Where education will not be a privilege of those who can pay for it nor will the police be the curse of those who cannot buy them; 

Where food will not be a commodity, or communication a business, because food and communication will be human rights; 

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Short Film: Anya

After the projection we discussed the following questions:

- What does the teddy bear represents?

- Did you use to have a teddy bear?

- Why there are only three kids at the orphanage?

- Is there any words on the film? Why are they so important?

- Do you have a statement or words that help you?

Souad Massi

The Bridge

Bridge is a story about four animal characters trying to cross a bridge, but ending up as obstacles to one another in the process.

Activity: Watch the film and discuss about what does this story wants to tell us.

Cyberslap

Activity: after watching the video. In a big group we describe the situation and we talk about cyber bully.

Where children sleep

When James Mollison sought to bring attention to children’s rights, he began to think about what sorts of thinks were important to him as a child, and what defined him.

Every child’s bedroom in this book gives us a unique picture into who they are, and what the world they are growing up in is like. It really is remarkable just how different these kids lives can be based on simply where they were born.

Activity: watch the slides. After that answer the following questions:

•What does the photographer wants to show?

•Which room did you like the most?

•Do you agree that with: “ your room is one of the very few ways you have to express yourself”?

• How does your room looks like?

Geri's Game Pixar

Short Film: Geri's Game Pixar.  

Geri sets up a chess game to play his greatest opponent - himself

Lord of the Ring - Street Art

Activity: enjoy the video.

Awareness test

Activity: After watching the video, discuss the following questions:

Why do you think we don’t see the moonwalking bear?

Can you think of other situation like this one?

Quote - everybody is a genius

Activity: Discussion.

- What do you think this quote means?

- Have you ever felt like the fish?

- Why are you a genius?

Would you rather - Halloween

Activity: each student answer a question. They enjoy very much this game.