HI DEENI.
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Hi Deeni,
I've added the video link in my sidebar on my wiki, who knows what I'm doing, I'm very new to this!
I've also started with ppts, not in any official design but just to get my head around the flow of explanation. I thought we could start of with the title 'Emissions Trading', then click a question appears 'What is it?' and then tell our peers that we would brainstorm with the students just to see what they might already know, jot points down and then be able to refer to that later to see how right or wrong they were. Then actually state that today's focus is explaining what emissions trading is as part of government initiate to reduce climate change so the students have a mindset and are prepared to link the appropriate information. Then I thought lead on with a review (because of assumed knowledge already of global warming learning, plus reference to those who would've just presented it before us) of climate change with an overview of the climate system and then our focus of too many greenhouse gases as one of the factors increasing global warming (with a blurb on consequences, once again depends on what those before us doand lead into greenhouse gas emissions, what are emissions etc... brainstorm cars electricity factories etc, expand that emissions come from burning fossil fuels oil coal gas and then show blue man video to emphasise with an entertaining visual. then after lead into govt figures policy attempts to reduce emisisons will start with a scheme to reduce emissions from those who do it the most; Australian example 25000 tonne equavalent or more emissions per annum, 1000 companies, what type of companies and then the capping, permits, market trading etc which I'll do the diagram to go with the role play.
Anyway I just blurbed along there to give you an idea of my thought processes, I just really want to unpack it for them so they understand the basic concept. Will put up on my wiki anything solid I get done and will let you know. Rachel

Hi Deeni,
Have added the ppt I've been working on to my wiki's front page. By no means is it finished yet, just wanted to get to you what I've done so far. Background etc still to be decided, I'm assuming you had ideas??
I'm going to attempt the slide to lead into the role play and start the diagram tonight. Role play looks okay, haven't quite read through it properly yet, will do later... but I think with the criminal pros/cons at the end we might need to leave those as a comment as to what approach future lessons can take, getting students to investigate more about the scheme etc. Just seems too much when firstly we just need them to understand the basic concept of trading to begin with, complexity and all that. Plus I don't know about timing. Anyways, still working on it, and we can talk about it more tomorrow! cu then, Rachel

Hi Deeni, I've now got up the ppt with the ET explanation and diagram on the front page of my wiki, will revamp role play later. By all means let me know info and sequence you were thinking of. I just figured see if they know anything about it, review global warming to the degree they need a refresher and to underline why need to implement something like emissions trading, then build to the big polluters, govt scheme targeting those, how it works, diagram, role play, have glossary semi there not sure whether to have one, just thought might be good for review. Please read the notes I've added and watch the slide show and give me some feedback. I know I"ve gone a but gung ho, couldn't help myself... my thoughts are we just divvy up the slides to take turns talking through them... the main objective I think to remember is we are explaining to our peers how we would explain it to a bunch of 11/12 years olds; so it's unpacked enough that they grasp the basic concept and future lessons can expand/build upon/investigate pros/cons etc. Let me know what you think. Rachel

Deeni! Where are you? I need your feedback and need to know what you want to incorporate. I only went ahead with the ppt as I wanted to let you know what I was thinking and I haven't seen what you've done yet as you didn't upload anything. I also wanted to put it to bed as the english assign is also due this week. So I hope all is okay, if there is a problem please let me know. The Garnaut video is great, fits in nicely. The role play however I don't think we really need now, probably better as an activity co-op groups coulld do when investigating ET further. Anyway, please let me know what you think... Rachel.

Hi Deeni! Good job on the ppt. I like it! I've only tinkled with a bit of formatting, text positioning and the like and some dot points had full stops and others didn't, so I got rid of all them in the explanation part. The other tricky bit; I don't have ppt 2007 (your working way too far in the future for me!) and I had to get my Mum to open the file on her machine and then she saved it as 2003 for me because I couldn't open the one you uploaded, so if there happens to be any more changes could you save it as 2003 also? There shouldn't be though. Anyway, I'll put up the 'perused' ppt my end on my wiki and I'll save it to my USB.

I like the idea of getting two 'volunteers' up to explain the process before showing the diagram. The worksheets are good (again 2007!), I'll put a copy of that up too, cause the sheets with the boxes filled in you had both company A and B 'Open to alternative energy options'. No biggy. Do you think timing allows to do both? I suppose we could a test run or if time does allow we go ahead and do it. I just thought though, maybe we should give them at least one circle filled in to start them off, maybe the top ones; 'Contributing to global warming' and 'Contributing less to global warming', as a bit of scaffold maybe??

How do you think we should divvy the slides? I don't think swapping slide to slide would work. I don't mind doing the start with the intro to topic and then the review to build up to the explanation, that would be slide 1-6. I could hand off to you to explain exactly what Aust govt doing etc. There's lots to say for slides 7,8,9 and you could co-ordinate the 'volunteers' and then show the diagram or we could do that together along with the worksheets if we go ahead with them. What do you think? Does it sound even??

I think if we work out what we're doing and who's doing what by tonight, we can just work on it in the hour before class at 2pm. Let me know what you think! Rachel

Hey Deeni,
I've twiddled with the slides since we have time! I put Aust stats in to go global to local and I added your suggestion of listing on a slide the issues to follow on with, plus the green paper as a resourcce and a link to the activity. Look it over and see what you think and we'll rethink the divvy up to talk about the end slides. Hope you're keeping well, Rachel.