Save Marine Life

 Subject : Science 

Done by students of Class: VII

Teacher: Savitha Suverna

Team members: Yash Bansal, Thilak S, Aryan K

Overview of the project:

—  Topic marine life was taken to spread awareness how the work we do affect the marine creatures.

—  To show how sea creatures help us by various ways and we do bad things that affect their life.

—  If we keep harassing them they might soon come up against us humans which might destroy us

Learning objectives:

Sno	Subject Learning objectives	Alice 3.1 Learning objectives	Skills Developed
1.	Understand the areas of difficulties faced by the students in the respective lessons	Understand how to create an initial scene with appropriate objects and settings.	Observation Skills
2.	Importance of marine Life	Understanding the use of procedural abstraction.	Creativity, Observational Skills
3.	How are the human polluting the sea?	Understand how to use the various sub parts in achieving a particular action	Problem Solving, Logical Thinking, Time Management.
4.	Advantages of Marine Life	Understand the use of loop, variables and arrays.	Self-confidence, Concentration, Time Management, Creativity.

Project Schedule:

Project task	Start and End dates	Number of periods (40 min)	Activity
Project planning	23.07.13 to 29.07.13	2	Group formation and topic selection
Task scheduling	30.07.13 to 05.08.13	2	Assignment of roles, drafting the project overview, discussion of deliverables, creating a scenario
Fact collection and pre-project survey	06.08.13 to 12.08.13	2	Conduct a survey among the students of the class about their existing knowledge on the topic. Collect relevant facts on the topic from sources such as textbook, the Internet and other books (library).
Create the animation	13.08.13 to 02.09.13	6	Divide the project among the group and create the animation.
Showcase the project	03.09.13 to 09.09.13	2	Alice project presentation and PowerPoint presentation to the class
Assessment and Reflection	10.09.13 to 16.09.13	2	Q & A session on the topic, documenting team members’ experience. Evaluation, reflection and analysis of the project by the team members.

Learning experience and difficulties faced by students who worked on this project is mentioned below

My name is Yash. In the project my aim was to create a video, quiz, game all in one  about how  Human life is destroying marine life. The software I had to use was ALICE 3.1.61

My experience while doing the project has been very informative and interesting .When we got the option to make either a quiz or a game or a game related to studies I bursted with an idea to actually fuse all of them. It was very bugging as well  due to the reason that as soon as my file exceeded 1GB

I used to get bug reports while opening  the project and my project goes

It was fun doing the project overall even though in the end I had to actually remove the quiz and the game due to the bug report about which I mentioned before.

 Pollinators in Peril

Project Start and End date: 24th Jul 2013 to 25^th Sept 2013

Subject : Science

Class: VII

Teacher: Rajasree V R

Team members: Pragya, Kulsoom Saba, Anwesha Mohapatra and Aditi

Overview of the project:

Pollinators are important agents which play a crucial role in the crop production of a particular area. The productivity of crops is directly proportional to the number of pollinators like honey bees and bumble bees .This project is an attempt to make children aware of these small insects in our life .This study shows and how the changes in the environment changes the number of pollinators. This also makes them aware of the need of plants especially the flowering plants around our houses and near our crop fields.

Students were asked to do a project on pollinators using Alice. Students had to use various objects, procedures in Alice to set up the scene according to the situation. This project showcases the the importance of ICT especially software like Alice in teaching and learning science.

Learning objectives:

Subject Learning objectives    1.Understand the importance of pollinators in          an ecosystem    2.Conduct survey efficiently    3. Analyse the data collected.    4. Draw conclusion about the relation ship of           pollinators and crop production.

Alice 3.1 Learning objectives 1.   Understand how to create an initial scene with appropriate objects and settings. 2.    Understand the use of camera markers.     3. Understand the use of variables and arrays 4. Understand the use of control  statements 1.

Project Schedule:

Project task	Start and End dates	Number of periods (40 min)	Activity
Project planning	24.07.13 to 25.07.13	2	1.Selection of the group 2.Selection of the topic
Task scheduling	26.07.13 to 31.07.13	2	Assignment of roles, drafting the project overview, discussion about the topic.
Fact collection and pre-project survey	01.08.13to 21.08.13	4	Collect relevant facts on the topic from sources such as textbook, the Internet and other books (library). Collect the data from the garden near the houses and also from the school garden .discussion and drawing conclusion about the data collected.
Create the animation	22.08.13 to 11.09.13	7	Divide the group and assign the topic for animation.
Showcase the project	12.09.13 to18.09.13	2	Alice project presentation and PowerPoint presentation to the class
Assessment and Reflection	19.09.13 to 25.09.13	2	Review  and reflection on the topic, documenting team members’ experience.

Team member’s experience

Pragya –(Class VII)

When I first got to know that I was doing this project I was very happy and excited for doing this project. Our project was based on pollination in peril; it was the most unique projects of all. First, when we thinking upon the topic, it was very difficult to think something on pollination that we had to present in ALICE. Finally we got an idea of how to do the project. We not only done an ALICE project we have also done a 'power point presentation.' I have also learnt many things upon pollination that I didn’t even know before, I also thank Rajasree ma'am for choosing me in this project. 

Kulsoom (Class VII)

My experience in ALICE: I had a great experience in ALICE. We all distributed our work so that we could complete it in time. I enjoyed working with ALICE.

Aditi (Class VII)

 My experience was nice I was happy when our guide selected me. We did some discussions. While we were doing our project we had more fun. After our project was a success we were happy. We thank our guide to give us an opportunity.

Bangalore: Present, Past and Future

Project Start and End date: 29 Jul 2013 to 21^st Sept 2013

Type of project: Social Science

Class: VII

Teacher: JayashreeT.S.

Team members: Rishab Jain, Sourab Jain, Vivek .V,  and Ritvik Swaminathan.

Overview of the project:

Bangalore the capital city of Karnataka  is home of  many well-known educational  institutions, IT  companies  and Public sector companies. It is  also referred as “Silicon Valley” of India. But  only few people know that Bangalore was  once called  as “Garden City” of India. Known for  its lush green  vegetation. But the present scenario is completely changed. Pollution problem, concrete buildings are more seen and  the lush greenery is  fading  gradually. In this project    a comparative study is done  how  the past, present and future Bangalore will be,  in case  we don’t conserve its greenery.This project  also helps  to understand  the historical background of the city, climatic  conditions and its location.

Subject Learning objectives   1.   Understand the geographical location, climatic conditions and vegetation of Bangalore 2.   Analyze the causes for the growing developmental activities in Bangalore city. 3.   Understand the historical background of the city. 4.   Call for action to stop depleting the resources and conserving the present resource.

Alice 3.1 Learning objectives   1.   Understand how to create an initial scene with appropriate objects and settings. 2.   Understanding the use of procedural abstraction. 3.   Understand the use of variables and arrays. 4.   Understand how to accept and process user input through “functions”. 5.   Understand how to manipulate objects through keyboard input and mouse input. 6.      Understand   the use of audacity software

Project Schedule:

Project task	Start and End dates	Number of periods (40 min)	Activity
Project planning	29.07.13 to 3.08.13	2	Selection of group, topic
Task scheduling	5.08.13 to 9.08.13	2	Assignment of roles, drafting the project overview, discussion of deliverables, creating a scenario
Fact collection and pre-project survey	12.08.13 to 16.08.13	2	Conduct a survey among residentsabout  Bangalore. Collect relevant facts on the topic from sources such as textbook, the Internet and other books (library).
Create the animation	19.08.13 to30.08.13	8	Divide the project among the group and create the animation.
Showcase the project	2.09.13 to 4.09.13	2	Alice project presentation and PowerPoint presentation to the class
Assessment and Reflection	18.09.13 to 21.09.13	2	Q & A session on the topic, documenting team members’ experience. Evaluation, reflection and analysis of the project by the team members.

 

Evaluation Rubric for Student Presentations:

Assessment criteria   1.      Creating an initial scene 2.      Alice animation 3.      Understanding of topic by the group 4.      Keyboard and mouse control, procedural abstraction 5.      Team work 6.      Creativity 7.      Powerpoint presentation 8.      Survey and fact collection 9.      Post-project Q & A Total

Marks   10 30 5 10 5 10 10 10 10 100

Resources:

www.Wikipedia.com.

www.karnataka.com
www. Google pictures.com
www.mapsofIndia.com