Assignment

="Let's Make the World Better to Live" = =**__'SAVE ENERGY'__** = **__Rajeev Gandhi Navodaya Vidyalaya, Dehradun.__**

** Pl. download the following Power Point Presentation :- ** **__Workshop for students__****Class 8th** **Pl. download the following file: ** **__Date and Time:__**  · 21st February, 2010 From 10:00 am to 12:00 am (2 hours)  · 22nd February, 2010 From 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm (1 hour) **__Planning for Training:__**  **//(The students will be divided into two groups while doing the practical work)//**  **__21st February, 2010: (Time 10:00 am to 12:00 am)__** **__(2 hours)__** a. Use the Edit Toolbar/Upload the pictures or documents (20 Minutes)  b. Practical work (30 Minutes)  **__22nd February, 2010: (Time 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm)__** **__(1 hour)__** Practical work to edit their wiki page, Opportunity for students to ask common questions/problems. =**__Project Work__** = =**Subject: Geography** =
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Make the students aware of the wiki site, email ids of groups and the usage. (15 minutes)
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How to make/browse/access a folder/file/picture in the computer? (15 minutes)
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Practical work (20 Minutes)
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How to scan pages and save as in .pdf format (20 Minutes)
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How to log in and edit the page:

<span style="background-color: #a9f415; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Aims:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • **To make students aware of the responsibilities of every citizen towards community.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • **To make students apply their knowledge for the betterment of community.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • **To save electricity.**

<span style="background-color: #bfe538; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Students would be able to know about:-** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • **Usage and importance of energy.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • **The sources of energy (conventional and non conventional).** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • **Conventional sources of energy as fire wood, coal and fossil fuels.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • **Depletion of conventional sources of energy.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • **Non conventional sources of energy as alternatives of conventional sources of energy.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • **Understand that conventional sources of energy are being exhausted as per the consumption.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • **How electricity is generated in different power plants.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • **Functioning of Bio gas plant.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • **Students would also be able to locate and mark the countries and places on the map of the world and India as well.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • **Knowledge of the above stated points would bring behavioural change of students to understand their responsibility towards the country and community**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**.**

__** Planning to adopt a constructive pedagogy:- **__

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **a.** **Differences in background knowledge.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **b.** **Attention span and memory.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **c.** **Multiple intelligences.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **d.** **Interests** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **e.** **Style of learning.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **f.** **Social and cultural (Ethenic) Background.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **(Groups are organized heterogeneously as it might be useful to assign roles to ensure that each member is involved in the work, according to their own abilities. This type of work group justifies the theory that pupils can learn from each other most effectively).**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **a.** **What is the most important thing that helps you to do your studies at night?** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **b.** **Where do we get light from?** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **c.** **What is the importance of energy in our life?**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **(All the members of different groups are instructed to note down the important answers/points that come from different members of different groups. All members of the groups are allowed to elaborate the answers/points of other students. Role of the teacher is to bring students to correct answer/point without telling the answer. This makes students to think and draw appropriate conclusions).**

<span style="background-color: #26cd0a; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teacher Presentation:-

 * The teacher would make a presentation of the topics and would lead the teaching-learning process with the help and interaction of students. He/she would try to make curiosity of students satisfied and students should have more and more chances to ask questions regarding the topic.**

__<span style="background-color: #cdff00; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">Assignment __
<span style="background-color: #06ea85; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**All groups are assigned to prepare and make a presentation on following points:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **1.** **Introduction (Energy).** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **2.** **Sources of Energy.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **3.** **Importance of Energy.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **4.** **Why to save Energy?** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **5.** <span style="background-color: #0bea89; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Electricity Audit.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **(Students would be stimulated to accomplish the practical work by asking them the following questions).** __** Instructions: **__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **Group……………………….** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **What has made the lives of human beings more comfortable?**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**What do we need to run all electronic devices?**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Where do we get energy from?**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**What is the most important form of energy, you use at home in your daily life?**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**How do you pay for it?/ Why do you have ‘Meters’ in your houses connected to electricity?**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Have you ever seen bill of electricity in your houses?**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Why should we save electricity?**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**What would be the advantages of saving electricity?**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Can you reduce the consumption of electricity in your house?**
 * <span style="background-color: #62e3f8; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(There would be a demonstration by the teacher how to fill the 'Electricity Audit' Table). **
 * Day One:**
 * 1) **Column 1: Fill the Date on which you want to start your work.**
 * 2) **Column 2 : Fill the names of all appliances (that run with electricity) which you generally use during the day or night.**
 * 3) **Getup early in the morning (before the use of any electric appliance is used) and note down the reading of your electric meter in the column 4 ‘Meter reading ………am on date………'.**
 * 4) **Column 3 : Note down the usage of every device that runs with electricity in appro. hours/minutes during the whole day and fill it against the particular device. At the same time you will have to notice that which of the device is unnecessarily being used and what would its alternative be.**
 * 5) **Column 5 : At night, when all the members of the family go to their beds (assure that all the devices that run with electricity are switched off), note down the meter reading again and fill the column 5 ‘Meter reading ………pm on date………’.**
 * 6) **Column 7 (a) : Differentiate between the readings of Column 4 &Column 5 and fill the column 7 (a) (Units used – ‘During Day’).**
 * 7) **Column 6 : Getup early in the next morning and (before the use of any electric appliance is used) and note down the reading of your electric meter and fill the column 6.**
 * 8) **Column 7 (b) : Differentiate between the readings of Column 5 &Column 6 and fill the column 7 (b) (Units used – ‘At Night’).**
 * 9) **Add the digits of columns 7 (a) and 7 (b) and fill the column 7 (c) (Units used – ‘Total’).**
 * Day Two:**
 * Your work starts here as you will have to reduce the unnecessary use of electricity of electricity in your house. Do your best and fill the columns of the table as described above in the same columns. Calculate the saved units and show it to your parents and other members of the family.**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Name of Student:………………………………..**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Date** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Appliances (Name)** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Usage Time (Approx. No. of Working Hours)** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Meter Reading at ……....am on date………** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Meter Reading at ………pm on date…..…** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Meter Reading at ……….am on date.……** |||||| <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Units Used** ||
 * ^  ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**During Day** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**At Night** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Total** ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Day One** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Day Two** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Saved Units (Difference)** ||  ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Day Two** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Saved Units (Difference)** ||  ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Saved Units (Difference)** ||  ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Saved Units (Difference)** ||  ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Saved Units (Difference)** ||  ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Saved Units (Difference)** ||  ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **6.** **How could you make a difference?** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **7.** **Poster/Chart to explain ‘How to save Energy?’.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **8. How many Units have you saved individually and also in a group?** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **9.** **Community Work**

//**(Students should also be advised to inspire and help their neighbours/friends to make an electricity audit at their respective homes. They should also present the feed back with the phone Nos. of their neighbours/friends' parents whom he/she has inspired or helped).**//

Evaluation:
Spellings and Cleanliness || Few spelling mistakes are done and work (writing and pictures) is neat and clean. || Some spelling mistakes are done and work (writing and pictures) is neat and clean. Or Few spelling mistakes are done and work (writing and pictures) is not very neat and clean. || Some spelling mistakes are done and work (writing and pictures) is not very neat and clean. || Many spelling mistakes are done and work (writing and pictures) is neat and clean Or Some spelling mistakes are done and work (writing and pictures) is not neat and clean. || (For presentation of the ways to save electricity/energy. At least six points are to be given) || Pictures and text on the chart are neat and clean and all steps/points could be understood by a common man at first sight. || Pictures and text on the chart are neat and clean and some steps/points could not be understood until they are explained. Or Pictures and text on the chart are not very neat and clean and all steps/points could be understood by a common man at first sight. || Pictures and text on the chart are not very neat and clean and some steps/points could not be understood until they are explained. || All points (at least six) are not given on the chart. Done work is not very neat and clean and steps/points could not be understood by a common man until they are explained. || Or At least one member could not show good presentation skill but all could make others satisfy on the particular topic they represented. || All the members of the group represented impressively and fluently and two member could not make others satisfy on the particular topic they represented. Or At least two members could not show good presentation skill but all could make others satisfy on the particular topic they represented. || Some members of the group could not show good presentation skill and make others satisfy on the particular topic or point they represented. || 1. Internet/ Encarta 2. Books other than prescribed text book. 3. News papers 4. Magazines || All the four given resources are used to collect information and pictures etc. || At least three of the given resources are used to collect information and pictures etc. || At least two of the given resources are used to collect information and pictures etc. || Only text book is used as a source of information. ||
 * Work of students (individually as well as group work) would be judged on the basis of:-**
 * **Specifications** || **Excellent** || **Very Good** || **Good** || **Satisfactory** ||
 * **Content** || Described aptly according to the assigned work . || Some more or less text or other descriptions are given. || Work is done randomly. || Work is incomplete and done randomly. ||
 * **__Text__**
 * **Chart/ Poster**
 * **Electricity Audit** || Self work is done and at least three other friends/ relatives/neighbors are motivated by each member of the group. Description of work and feed back is also attached. || Self work is done and at least two other friends/ relatives/neighbors are motivated by each member of the group. Description of work and feed back is also attached. || Self work is done and at least one friend/ relative/neighbors is motivated by each member of the group. Description of work and feed back is also attached. || Only self work is done. ||
 * **Group Presentation** || All the members of the group represented impressively and fluently and could make others satisfy on the topic they represented. || All the members of the group represented impressively and fluently and one member could not make others satisfy on the particular topic he/she represented.
 * **Resources Used:-**