Environmental Education and English in New Zealand Schools
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Visual Language
Viewing
Strand aims
Students should be able to:
- Engage with and enjoy visual language in all its varieties;
- Understand, respond to, and use visual language effectively in a range of contexts.
Examples of student activities
- Observe signs and symbols used to identify environmental features and discuss the way in which visual signs convey their meaning. (Levels 1 and 2)
- View a television advertisement for an "environmentally friendly" product and consider how the product is presented to the viewer through dialogue, words on the screen, music, and types of characters. (Levels 1 and 2)
- Listen to and view a range of music and dance from different countries and discuss how ideas and stories on environmental issues are conveyed through rhythm and movement. (Levels 3 and 4)
- Assemble examples of different news media treatments of the same environmental issue and discuss the differences of emphasis of each story as well as the visual, verbal, and non-verbal features that convey these interpretations. (Levels 7 and 8)
Visual Language
Presenting
Strand aims
Students should be able to:
- Engage with and enjoy visual language in all its varieties;
- Understand, respond to, and use visual language effectively in a range of contexts.
Examples of student activities
- View photographs of a local environmental feature and co-operatively write a newspaper story to accompany it. (Levels 3 and 4)
- Design and publish a pamphlet, role-play, chart, or video to provide information for the public on an environmental issue. (Levels 3 and 4)
- Design a poster on an environmental protection issue after identifying how another such poster combines visual elements, such as colour, graphics, juxtaposition, slogans, headlines, and symbolism, to produce meaning. (Levels 5 and 6)
- Evaluate music videos of songs with environmental messages in terms of their messages, their conventions, and the use of verbal, visual, and dramatic features and then script and develop a storyboard for shooting another music video.
(Levels 7 and 8)
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