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HOW ECO CAN HELP?

OBJECTIVE:
1. Students will be able to introduce
themselves and have basic conversations
with others.
2. Describe, explain and spell the names of
some of the most important natural and
cultural elements of Colombia and SAI.
3. Be able to identify and share the most
important aspects of San Andres’ cultural,
ancestral and natural elements.
4. Express themselves better in English across
areas such as Natural Science, Social
Studies, Technology and Language Arts.
ECO KIDS is a trans-media initiative
purposed to motivate kids to interact in
English. Four kids along with their new
British friend, Indy Walker, explore
Colombia and learn all about its diverse
natural, linguistic, cultural, gastronomic
and historical treasures, while showing
kids that English can help us improve in
every area of school and life.

HOW DOES THE CONTEST WORK:

Each school will develop one video journal mimicking the style of Eco-Kids episodes. The
students will share what they have learned and add complementary vocabulary, thematic or
cultural information from our Island to the material that is presented in each episode.

English teachers will decide which grades will develop which “capsule” or “episode”, according
to the level and rigor of the material. The only condition is that the entire classroom must be
involved. For instance if the school has A and B classes for each grade from 1st-5th grade, then
roughly, each class would be in-charged of one episode. English teachers must work together
with other area teachers in order to evaluate the overall work, which will in-turn be submitted
to the Quality of Education Of ce. The video journals will be reviewed and there will be 1st, 2nd,
3rd place winners. This project begins now and will nalize in November.

CRITERIA:
In the video the students must incorporate
segments similar to the ones in the episodes to
share what they’ve learned (example: let’s
repeat, great book of knowledge, let’s hear
form our callers, etc.). They must also add
something from our unique island perspective.
Teachers, students and even parents can be
involved in the preparation of the material for
the video. The nal video must not exceed 40
minutes, but must include the essential
information from each of the 16 episodes.
EVALUATION:
While creativity, pronunciation, spelling,
proper grammar, vocabulary, video
edition, classroom involvement and
overall presentation will be big factors in
the reviewing process, the evaluation
committee will use take into account the
fact that students from each grade will
have varying pro ciency levels.

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Tentative Schedule
Date Activity Deadline Notes

Aug. 16-20 English Teacher’s Meeting Wednesday,

Launching of Project August 18

Aug. Sharing the project with Friday, Elementary English teachers

23-27 students. August 27 must meet before this deadline
in order to design the rubric to
*You may also work with select the best portfolios
teachers from other areas, so
as to use this initiative as an
interdisciplinary assignment.

Sep. 27 - Each individual Classroom Friday, Teachers may make corrections

Oct 1 must lm the response to their October 1 and recommendation.
respective episode. Corrections or re- lming must
occur by Oct 15

Nov. 1 -5 Students and teachers work Friday,

on consolidating all the videos November 5
for make the nal lm.

Nov. 15-19 Teachers submit the nal Friday, Bilingual Team reviews the
video to the Quality of November 19 submissions with the jury and
education of ce. names the winners.
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