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**Step-by-Step Instructional Strategies** > Goals and Objectives > Essential Question(s): How is this an authentic question for your learners? > 1 How can technology influence natural and human-made environments? > Three Classrooms' Collaboration Activity: How will your three classes collaborate in answering the essential question? (one-paragraph description) > Each Classroom’s Collaboration: How will students within each class collaborate on different parts of the project? (one-paragraph description) > Equipment: List the equipment needed to teach your unit > ‍
 * Develop a company/organization that revolves around "Going Green."
 * Profitable Company
 * Installing "Green" appliances, house upgrades, business upgrades, etc.
 * Selling hybrids/efficient cars.
 * Consultants - Go to places and offer advice for improvements (but do not do the work)
 * Non-Profit/Charity
 * Spread the knowledge of "Going Green"
 * TV/Radio Ads
 * Poster/Billboard Campaign
 * Social Networking Campaign
 * etc.
 * Community
 * Clean up
 * Fun event to spread awareness
 * Demonstrantion/Exhibition of "Green" technology
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The environment is important to everyone and everything. The world we live in can no longer sustain how we have been doing things for the last century. We can no lnonger be as wasteful or polluting without concern for the environment. We are also in a bad economy and the next most probable expansion will be in building new infrastructure (in a "Green" way) and this generation of students will be the majority of this work force.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Day 1
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Students will post on the classroom Wiki about where they see "Green" technology and ideas being used and working, along with efforts where it is being implemented and not working. They also will post about where they might see "Green" technology or ideas being used where they are not currently being used. (Then through the previously setup classroom connections) The students will interact with students from another school to talk about their posts. Postings will take the form similar to our discussions at Walden.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Day 2 and 3
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Through the discussions, the students will now have a better idea where and how "Going Green" is being utilized well, where it is not, and where it can still be implemented. Through continued discussion with the students, the students will come up with an idea for a "Green" company, whether Profitable or Non-profit. There will be one member from each of our classes partnered up for this project. These three students will be in charge of creating a website though Wikispaces as the frontpage for their company.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Day 3 and 4
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will establish their company
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Company Name
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mission
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Profit or Non-profit - Arrange how finances will be handled
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Who is their target customer?
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is the product/service?
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Build a Web page - Students are encouraged to view sample company pages to mimic what they have on the page. (Teachers will offer examples, maybe students can post websites that they find useful. This could be a previous assignment as a scavenger hunt or simply a small research project)
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">--example: http://www.foe.org/
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">--example: http://www.epa.gov/
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">--example: http://www.greenamerica.org/
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create a short presentation using PowerPoint, GoogleDocs, Xtranormal, GoAnimate, Video or others to make a short 1-3 minute commercial that will play automatically when the page loads.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Discussions about current "Green" conditions
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Creation of the company page
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Encouraged to communicate through Wikispaces email
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Encouraged to utilize Skype, Facebook, or other way of communication to stay in touch
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Students will also evaluate each others pages over the weekend after the pages are supposed to be finished.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Computer Lab for the
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">whole week
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Internet