At TechnoKids, we’re excited to announce our latest technology project with engaging environmental lessons, TechnoEarth. This unique curriculum unit transforms students into environmental stewards. They use Google Sites to design an interactive infographic. It raises awareness about an important issue of their choosing. Middle and high school students will find the environmental project highly engaging.
About the TechnnoEarth Curriculum Unit
Involve students in a learning experience that can make a real-world difference. The activities in TechnoEarth form a connection between human activity and the natural world. Incorporate the lessons as part of a digital literacy class, environmental education, science or geography unit, or Earth Day event.
TechnoEarth includes:
- Teacher guide with 20 lessons
- Student workbook and worksheets
- 5 reviews and 3 skill reviews
- 6 extension activities
- Research outline template
- Example infographics
- Environmental Fact Sheets
- Stakeholder slide deck
- Icons and infographics slide deck
- Checklists
- Infographic rubric
- Google flashcards and tool summaries
- Parent letter and certificate of achievement
Blend Digital Literacy Skills With Environmental Education Lessons
Transform a traditional research assignment into a meaningful public awareness campaign.
The environmental education lessons in TechnoEarth guide students through designing an interactive infographic about an important issue. The step-by-step instructions explain how to use Google applications to produce the publication:
- Organize environmental research using a Google Docs planner template
- Create a rotating slide deck of interesting facts and stakeholders using Google Slides
- Emphasize a main point using a Google Sheets score card
- Pinpoint worst offenders or stewards on a customized map using Google My Maps
- Illustrate solutions by making original icons in Google Drawings
- Construct the infographic by arranging interactive content in Google Sites
Students build digital literacy skills by working with multiple Google applications to create the parts of the interactive infographic. Concurrently, they demonstrate their knowledge of the environmental topic. In this way science, social science, language arts, and/or geography learning objectives are integrated with ICT.
