Engage

Engage
====The engage stage is the first stage in the e5 model and this stage is used to introduce a topic and share any prior understandings. It also the time when learning goals for the class and for individuals are set for the whole unit. ====

Learning Intention
==== In this stage you are aiming to share your prior knowledge, understandings and beliefs about energy and begin questioning the topic of energy. We are aiming to build our vocabulary around the topic of energy. ====

** Overall Objective for engage stage **
====The objective for the engage stage is share your understanding and knowledge using Wallwisher and Wordle to represent your prior understanding you have on the topic of renewable energy, both in a written form and visual representation. ====

** Specific Objectives for activities **

 * 1) ====Wallwisher is used to gather the classes ideas and understandings/beliefs and is made of digital post it notes. We are using Wallwisher to complete our KWL chart (What we Know? What we Want to know? and What we have Learnt). The first Wallwisher will require you to brainstorm your own understandings about energy and add to or comment on 2 peers responses. Remember no ideas are wrong in this space and it is okay to agree or disagree with your peers. ====
 * 2) ====The second Wallwisher link is to post any questions about what we want to know. Minimum of 2 questions for this section. ====
 * 3) ==== Wordle is a web tool that creates a word cloud from a list of words you enter into the document. Using Wordle you are to create a word cloud using the words you feel are important from the two previous Wallwisher activities. Create a word cloud with a minimum of 15 words ====

1. As a class we will introduce this unit by discussing the question 'What is energy?'
====2. As a class we will create a KWL chart but this time we will be doing this digitally. On individual computers you will write digital post-it notes about what you know about renewable energy or energy in general and then comment on 2 of your peer's responses. Remember no answers are wrong here! This can be accessed by scrolling down to the first Wallwisher titled: 1. Renewable energy: What we know. ====

2. Once this has been done we will discuss and read over the responses on the interactive whiteboard as a class.
====3. You will then click on the second Wallwisher to post any questions you have about the topic. Think about what you would like to know or what you would like to learn about energy. ====

Scroll down to the second Wallwisher titled: 2. Renewable Energy: What we want to know
====4. You will then create your own Wordle using words that you think are important for this topic from the Wallwisher activities. Scroll down to the Wordle section to complete this activity. ==== ====5. This lesson will end by watching the below video on renewable energy. This video shows the basics of what renewable energy is and will elicit your thinking ready for the investigations and experiments that will be happening in the next stage of this unit. ====

Wallwisher 2 - What we want to know?
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Wordle
==== Using words of your choice from both Wallwisher pages, create your own word cloud using [|Wordle]. This word cloud will represent the words you feel are important in this topic . If you believe a word is important, write it many times to make it stand out in your world cloud as the more you write it the bigger the word is in your word cloud. Remember to check your spelling as these word clouds will be displayed in our room. Below is an example of a Wordle word cloud. ====

**Interpersonal Development: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students explore the similarities and differences in the values and beliefs of a range of individuals and compare their values and beliefs with others. ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Science: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students frame investigating questions that interest them and are drawn from locally based issues about energy. ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Information Communication Technology: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students use ICT tools and techniques that support the organisation and analysis of concepts and issues and draw relationships from them. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use websites to acquire and share information with peers. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students can successfully upload their work to a protected public online space. ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Communication: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students use relevant questioning to improve their understandings. ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">English: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students produce, in print and electronic forms, a variety of texts for different purposes using structures and features of language appropriate to the purpose, audience and context of the writing. ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thinking Processes: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With teacher support, formulation of appropriate key questions for their investigations or responses. ====