China+Alive+Green+Shanghai

**Welcome to the WikiSpace for our 2008 China Alive Trip.** Please navigate to each day's page to access resources or share your comments in the discussion. toc

=Experiences=

[[image:Shanghai_at_night.jpg width="133" height="101" align="left" link="Day 1:  The Shanghai Story"]]**Day 1**
The Shanghai Story

[[image:Zhujiajiao.jpg width="110" height="143" align="left" link="Day 2:  The Xicen Story"]]Day 2
The Xicen Story

[[image:Ofarm_garden.jpg width="132" height="100" align="left" link="Day 3:  The Pudong Story"]]Day 3
The Pudong Story

Day 4
The Moganshan Story (part 1)

[[image:Tea_MGS.jpg width="137" height="110" align="left" link="Day 5:  The Moganshan Story (pt. 2)"]]Day 5
The Moganshan Story (part 2)

=Photos and film= Photos for each day are linked on the relevant page. You can also view them together with the film footage [|here].

=Green Shanghai and the EAGLES=
 * What do the EAGLES have to do with our experiences this week?**

* hiking, biking and building activities * the impact of past decisions and/or solutions for improving the local environment
 * = **The EAGLES and Green Shanghai ** ||
 * **EMPOWERED** || Activities are designed to guide you into interacting with the space around you, through observation and analysis of uses of space together with the impact of human behavior. This will allow you to make more connections with your world as you see how everything is interlinked. ||
 * **ADAPTABLE**  || Team-building is emphasized through:
 * through reflection
 * problem solving activities
 * the creation of the digital presentation ||
 * **GLOBALLY-MINDED** || All activities are focused on:
 * engaging with China (our host culture) ||
 * **LITERATE** || * Communicating what you have learned in a journal format
 * Creating a digital presentation through a choice of media (Eg. wikispace, power point, voice thread)
 * Using images to convey a concept/key idea ||
 * **ETHICAL** || This trip is designed to develop your understanding of community service aspect and to make us all think of what it means to be a global citizen (think about all the activities where you focused on 'giving back' to the community) ||
 * **SKILLED** || * Analyzing space (what does the way space is used tell us about the nature of a particular community)
 * Collecting evidence to support opinion/point of view (data, images etc)
 * Applying new knowledge in order to design solutions ||

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=China Alive curriculum requirements=

Overview
**What do we <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(213, 83, 162)">want to get out of the <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(35, 199, 112)">trip ?** The Green Shanghai trip is centered on an exploration of Shanghai’s natural environment as well as sustainable development in this region.

To develop awareness of:
 * Aims**:
 * 1) our local community here in Shanghai - people and customs
 * 2) the opportunities that exist for 'giving back' to the community
 * 3) how Shanghai and sustainable development are connected
 * 4) Shanghai's environmental concerns (causes, consequences, actions)

Essential questions

 * The <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(238, 17, 17)">essential questions are the areas that the trip has been designed around: its <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(216, 0, 255)">foundation .**

Every **<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(163, 48, 176)">experience **is connected to helping us find **<span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(54, 201, 44)">answers **to the following 3 questions:
 * 1) How does the way space is used within a city impact on the environment?
 * 2) What actions can we, as individuals, take to minimize our carbon footprint?
 * 3) What is the relationship between industry, the environment and sustainable development?

Assessment

 * = <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(238, 94, 27)">**PRODUCTS**
 * Knowledge, skills and awareness will be developed and documented through 2 products** ||
 * **Individual trip journal** || * Your journal should demonstrate careful collection of evidence, and thoughtful reflection.
 * It is to be handed in to the trip home group teacher.
 * Use the rubric to help you as you get your journal ready to hand in.

|| All the information we discussed on the trip, including tips for helping you with the project will be summarized on that outline page. ||
 * **Digital presentation** || Click here for a more complete outline of the digital group project

=Important dates=

__**<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'">October 14 (Tuesday, Block A) **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'"> __ <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'">1st of 2 Extended Homerooms from 8:15 – 9 for all 9th/10th graders in trip meeting locations. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'">Purpose: Organization of project work. Additional lunchtime meetings can be organized by each trip as needed.

__**<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'">October 21 (Tuesday, Block G) **__ <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'">2nd of 2 Extended Homerooms from 8:15 – 9 for all 9th/10th graders in trip meeting locations. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'">Purpose: Organization of project work. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'"> __**<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'">October 28 (Tuesday ****<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'">) **__ <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'">Project will be due for all trip participants (both individual journals and digital projects) but will not be counted towards 1st quarter grade (it will be on the 1st semester report card as a Pass/Fail grade). <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'">
 * (Please upload your project on the wiki. Contact Ms Leong in person, or by email at fay.leong@saschina.org when you're ready to do this. Journals are to be handed in to the person who was your home group leader on the trip)**

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