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These activities will be developed by the teacher for 7th grade students, but adaptable to all Elementary School II and High School students, according to the level of depth.
Malala Yousafzai... Who is she?
WebQuest 3:
Women's Empowerment
INTRODUCTION: You will perform the steps of each proposed exercise, clicking on the indicated links to expand your knowledge on the subject presented. Review the image, watch the video, and follow the directions for each task.
Good Study!!!
* Let´s read and understand some important facts about Malala´s life... Visit her homepage!!!!
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education advocate, who at the age of 17 in 2014, became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban...
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr -
Mayor, Sierra Leone
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ASSIGNMENT: The purpose of this WebQuest is to lead you to meet women engaged in social good. Identify the actions taken by them and reflect on possible attitudes that we can also do in favor of a society.
PROCESS: read carefully each step, access the links, search for knowledge... lET´S START...
1) What inspires you? Think... Reflect.... What moves you? Let's learn with some good and important examples...
Have you watched the movie? How can you reflect about it?
“ I prefer to look at the positive side of things!” (Zilda Arns Neumann)
A women of courage! Dr. Zilda lived to defend and to promote the children, pregnant women and elderly, to build a more just and fraternal society, with less disease and human suffering.
More on Dr. Zilda Arns... click here !!
Ingrid Silva... Have you ever heard about her?
" I come from a favela in Brazil. I am black. I have a poor family and yet, despite the odds, I made my dream come true. I became a ballerina.”
Ingrid Silva
* Visit the website...
1) Now.... let´s create a Mind Map with some actions that describe Ingrid´s life. After, post it or no your school 's Social network.
* Mind Map : See the topic - TOOLS - STUDENTS
2) Now that you have seen some positive actions from engaged women... You need to...
a) Produce a PSA (Public Service Annoucement) with the theme "Women´s Empowerment". You can use the titles of his production the phrases:
* These are some examples of how you can start your writing... but you can have other ideas...
* You can produce an infographic, a folder or a poster... Use the Canva
b) And the last activity is... Who is your heroine? Think of an important woman, who makes the difference in your life... and create a poster about her. Then, share it on your school's social networks.
My heroine is...
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Resources (Scaffolding)
- Links to videos from websites of the aforementioned Personalities
Evaluation
- The evaluation will be an ongoing process, verifying the participation and commitment of the students in carrying out the proposed tasks and observing the proactive action of each participant.
Conclusion
- Reflection on Female Empowerment
- Use of digital resources
- Reading biographies
- Production of media for social networks (Mind Map / Word Cloud...)
credits
- Malala Yousafzai ( https://malala.org/malalas-story )
- TedEd website ( https://www.ted.com/talks/yvonne_aki_sawyerr_how_to_turn_your_dissatisfaction_into_action/transcript?language=en )
- Zilda Arns: https://www.paho.org/en/public-health-heroes/dr-zilda-arns-neumann
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