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Environmental education assignments by CCC Tai O Primary School
Teachers of CCC Tai O Primary School have developed a set of assignments on environmental education based on our teaching resources. The assignments can be downloaded from the Teachers' Corner (Chinese page).
Guest speaker at Kennedy School
As part of the students' training of SEPAS 2011/2012, Ms. Theresa Webb, a marine biologist on behalf of the Hong Kong Dolphin Conservation Society, delivered a talk on cetacean evolution, what makes a dolphin a mammal, and human effects on animal habitats to the Year 4 students and representative teaching staff of Kennedy School on 28th March, 2012. All the participants were very interested in the topic, and many of them were very keen on answering various inspiring questions of the Speaker. It was indeed an informative and encouraging event.
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Teachers' Training Workshop at Kennedy School
On 24th February, 2012, sixty teaching staff of Kennedy School participated in the SEPAS's training workshop. The workshop started with a brief introduction of Jane Goodall Institute, its Roots & Shoots programme, the Student Environmental Protection Ambassador Scheme of this year, and followed by various global environmental and humanitarian issues, including climate change, shark-finning, over-fishing, solid waste and food waste in Hong Kong, wealth distribution, Gini-Coefficient, world hunger, animal cruelty and consumption of dairy products. Majority of the participants found that the training workshop was rich in content and useful to them, many of the selected topics and relevant short movie clips were thought-provoking, and had enhanced their awareness of global environmental issues. Most teaching staff also found the demonstrated fishing game and the paper bag game very useful for teaching students about sustainable fishery and poverty issues.
Student Training Workshop at Kennedy School
The Student Environmental Protection Ambassadors of Kennedy School completed the second training workshop on 23rd Feb 2012, covering the topics of wealth distribution, Gini Coefficient, world hunger, and fair trade.
The Ambassadors had lots of fun playing the Fruits of Fairness game by using ten chairs to represent the entire wealth of the U.S. and all of them as the total population of the country. They were very quick in adopting the concept of uneven distribution of wealth and its adverse effects on social, political and economic instability. Having introduced the basic concept of Gini Coefficient, the students were able to distinguish representative countries with relatively even, less even and very uneven distributions of wealth.
The students were also touched by stories about how some individuals made positive changes to help the underprivileged around the world, and the contrast of blood chocolate and fair trade chocolate. They ended the workshop with much joy sharing fair trade chocolate bars.
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| Sixteen students representing the poor people fighting for only one chair. |
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Two wealthy class having the luxury of eight chairs. |
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Two middle class sharing one chair - not as comfortable as the wealthy class but definitely way better than the poor. |
| "It will be equal and everybody will find it fair. They will be much happier!" |
| Concentrating on a short movie about "Blood Chocolate". |
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"I would tell people to buy more fair trade chocolate, and if they don't, I will tell them the causes and [tell] what they do to children! I would make a charity for the children to get an education." |
| These are not just chocolate bars...these are Fair Trade chocolate bars! |
| The joy of sharing fair trade chocolate bars! |
Activity Day at CCC Tai O Primary School
On 18 February 2012, the teachers and students of CCC Tai O Primary School spent half a day exploring mangrove forests and environmental issues. They took a guided tour of the mangrove forests of Tai O, learning about the interesting plants and animals in this unique ecosystem. After that, the Jane Goodall Institute facilitated an assembly on natural resources and resource consumption, with an emphasis on the individual's role on protecting the environment.
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