Coastal GI 2021 Design Map

 

Interactive on reducing CO2

Interesting interactive from ST on reducing CO2 https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2021/10/singapore-carbon-emissions-climate-change/index.html?shell

Google Earth and Google Suite

Really grateful to Google Earth and Google Suite for enabling the students to continue in their Geographical Investigation despite the pandemic.

Would really love to share with the other Geography teachers how we carried it out and how they can adapt it for their school!

Do join in the Geog symposium as I will be sharing with my colleague in one of the concurrent session.

https://sites.google.com/view/gysympo2021/home?authuser=0

Feedback using Google Form

Feedback can improve a student's confidence, self-awareness and enthusiasm for learning. I would issue a Google form for feedback after each topic is taught. The form will contain a checklist of the learning objectives for the topic as well as how best they learned and what they felt could be better. 

An article published in the Annual Review of Psychology reported that students are most successful when their schools emphasize growth and mastery. When students reflect on what they have learned, they gain confidence in learning, and their teachers can better design lessons to build on existing mastery.

You can make a copy of the forms which I have included at the bottom of this post.

 

With Google Form would like to introduce Certify'em, a Google Form Add-on, which can automatically issue certificates to people who successfully complete your Google Form. I used Certifyém and it is so impressive. The certificate is emailed to the respondent immediately upon completion of the feedback form with the personalised name and date. 

Just customise the template on Google slide with {{Full Name}} and {{Date2}} then add on in Google Form by clicking on Add-on Certifyém. choosing the custom template.

List of merged tag you can use with the custom cert

 

You can make a copy of this Google Slide template which I created and save it in your drive to use as a customised template for Certify'em extension on Google form - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jNtm7CUru-YYJMVWAHCHSmg29pbfA_mKtDsFgpSqZGQ/copy

Remember to publish the Google slide template to the web (you can select this from the drop down under  File menu)

The following are the Google forms I created which I added certify'em. I gave the students as a form of checklist after I have covered every topic and they enjoyed receiving the certificate.
I was pleasantly surprised when a boy came up to me and ask me for the next one and I had to tell him we still have one more part to finish up the chapter. It's always a joy to see the students excited about learning. I have also learned from the feedback the areas which the students are not so confident in as well as getting feedback from them how and what they would like to learn more.

Feedback for the various topics:

PG Weather and Climate https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fMmZSsBuMVIdsimz7oCki2KDbQnwIJ2jq4ACmsB_VBs/copy

Elective Weather and climate https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lVDxRbH9iHSUgKO2bDBeZOZvJL_xqyxF944BwhQ06xM/copy

Food resources 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1dy3yI1xoAwgqQopR-CTbRdZ7OHUY2vIZOSmm_MEIzZs/copy

Elective Food resources
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zyJE6lSZs_GT-8I3kLp8FfxFafl1q_Ug1BZzZrZwgKE/copy

Tourism https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18vmnpi-pahbu7BWjXK_OItq62s9PFyPAIVP05bIl1u8/copy

Tectonic Hazards https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RYAc4kwk88tT9c7GKOo61am_A457kMhNv1EN6-8s6wY/copy

PG Coasts https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ayur7IuwVsnEZyD2tDBKGZjdT4uYShV7CoKirRzdQ0o/copy

PG Health and Diseases https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QACRMAKPWWt5Dv0lyy9OLFyBHZ9m3Dyd8xU8qgca50k/copy

E-Pedagogy in Coastal GI

 

Technology should enhance learning and help the students achieve the learning objectives.

The design of the lesson with the active learning process and key application of technology in mind.

Due to the pandemic, we were unable to conduct the actual fieldwork so I have used Google Earth and Google suite to conduct a simulated GI.

Coastal GI using Technology 

2021 https://sites.google.com/a/moe.edu.sg/sec3geog/geographical-investigation/gi---coast/2021-coastal-gi-fieldwork-simulation?authuser=0

2020 https://sites.google.com/a/moe.edu.sg/sec3geog/geographical-investigation/gi---coast/2020-virtual-coastal-gi-and-fieldwork-simulation?authuser=0

Blended Learning for Weather GI

My colleague, Arman, coordinated the Weather GI. With the use of technology, we were able to continue the GI into the HBL period.

Students formulated their hypotheses in Google classroom and I went through with class the hypotheses they have formulated. Three were chosen and the students collected the data using a weather tracker in school. The students then record in the Google form and the data is collated on a spreadsheet. Using the data, comparative graphs and scatter graphs are generated for the data representation.

The groups collaborated in presenting their analysis and conclusion using Google slides. Images from a group's presentation is shown below.

The use of the Google suite and Google Classroom has helped to create a more engaged blended learning experience for the students using technology.

https://sites.google.com/a/moe.edu.sg/sec3geog/geographical-investigation/20-weather-gi?authuser=0

The sketch map was traced from a Google Earth screenshot of the school.

Historical maps

Interesting historical maps to see the development of Singapore.

I like that you can allow for swipe of two maps as shown below:

1. Select the maps from the years you want to compare and then click on the 3 lines (setting) beside the year.

2. Select layer swipe followed by vertical from the pop-up menu.

 https://fass.nus.edu.sg/news/2021/05/03/singapore-through-the-years/