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Lesson Global Goal 15 Life on Land Remix literacy eltsustainable.org

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Global Goal 15: Life on LandRemix Literacy

  • develop your 'remix literacy skills' by creating text for a piece of existing video
  • evaluate the targets of global goal 15, life on land.
  • present your remix to the class
  • discuss issues surrounding remixing the work of others

In this lesson you will:

Outcomes

in 2015 world leaders signed up to 17 'Global Goals' aimed at making the world a better place by 2030. Goal 11 is 'sustainable cities and communities'. What do you think this goal might aim to do? Brainstorm ideas.Ready? Click the button to check:

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Let's write!

Tell your partner about a nature documentary you have seen.Watch this one. How similar is it?

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Getting ideas

Follow the link and scroll to the section 'Targets'. Read them, and discuss the following:1. Which targets stand out for you?2. Which target would you choose as the highest priority targets where you live and why?3. What would you do to reach this target?

  1. By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems
  2. Planet Earth has seven extraordinary continents, each one unique
  3. Mobilize and significantly increase financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems.
  4. gave rise to the extraordinary and wonderful diversity we see today.
  5. and we will see why this precious diversity is being lost.

Which of these phrases come from the targets and which come from the nature documentary. How is the language in the nature documentary different and why?

Language Work:

You are going to write subtitles or audio for the following piece of video, in the style of a nature documantary narration, with the intention of raising interest in and awareness of these targets.Watch the videos on the following slide, choose one of them, and think about what you will say.

Writing

You will create a voiceover for one of these videos. Choose one of them.

Choose a video

Write a script for the video voiceover. Below are some things you can use in it.

Scriptwriting

Each one unique, each one full of lifeDon't forget the power of pausing and silence during a video!

Repetition and pausing

Have you ever wondered ...?Stop for a moment to think about...

Questions and imperatives

extraordinary, precious, unique,irreplaceable

Strong adjectives

Practice saying your voiceover to your partners. When you are ready, present it to your class with the video playing on the projector behind you. As you watch the others present think of one piece of positive feedback.

Presentation

  • Is it right to take other people's images and make something out of them with a new meaning?
  • What copyright issues are there to consider?
  • Is it true that remixing makes creativity more democratic and less exclusive?
  • How effective is remixing the video in communicationg the importance of life on land in the way we did?
  • What area of goal 15 life on land do you think is the most urgent where you live?
  • Can remixing other peoples' creations help make people think?
  • What would you like to remix?

What do you think?

Digital material by Milica Vukadin

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Lesson plan by Owain Llewellyn

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