Employ a wide variety of assignment strategies including poster & video making, report writing, and oral presentations. All assignments have a predefined set of criteria which is marked using a marking guide/rubric.
Poster Assignment
Poster Assignment Criteria
Create a Merlin Wood Biodiversity Poster using specimens you identified and photographed today on your outdoor classroom for entry into a Merlin Wood Biodiversity poster competition.
Your poster should include (but is not limited to):
Use MS PowerPoint to create your poster. Open PowerPoint, go to design, click on page set up and change the setting to portrait and A3 letter. Click OK. This is your blank canvas. Submission via Moodle.
This assignment was issued to a 2nd yr class
Create a Merlin Wood Biodiversity Poster using specimens you identified and photographed today on your outdoor classroom for entry into a Merlin Wood Biodiversity poster competition.
Your poster should include (but is not limited to):
- A Title and your name
- Your own photographs of each specimen
- A description of a wide range of deciduous broad leaved trees (~7 different species),
- A description of at least two liverworts (leafy & thalloid), two moss (acrocarpus & pleurocarpous), one fern and one conifer tree
- Include any weird and wonderful facts you uncover about your chosen specimens
- Reference list
Use MS PowerPoint to create your poster. Open PowerPoint, go to design, click on page set up and change the setting to portrait and A3 letter. Click OK. This is your blank canvas. Submission via Moodle.
This assignment was issued to a 2nd yr class
Re-usable Learning Object - Poster Making
Poster Marking Guide
Winner of Best Poster
VIDEO ASSIGNMENT
Video Assignment Criteria
Create a short video demonstrating the toxic effect of a commercially available herbicide on Gammarus
Labelling petri dishes
Catching Gammarus
Adding herbicide to Gammarus
of this not all 90-100 minutes)
Graph of LC50 and interpret it’s meaning
What are the implications of using herbicide like Roundup near Irish water courses
Make a recommendation on the future use of Roundup along Irish waterways
Video is to be recorded using your mobile device and should be 15-20mins max in length. If you
want to make edits use free online software, if necessary (https://filmora.wondershare.com/videoeditor/free-video-editing-software-windows.html or use youtube). Upload your MP4 file to Moodle.
This assignment was issued to a 3rd yr class
Create a short video demonstrating the toxic effect of a commercially available herbicide on Gammarus
- Introduce yourself, the title of the experiment and the aims and hypothesis of the experiment
- Record the set-up of the experiment
Labelling petri dishes
Catching Gammarus
Adding herbicide to Gammarus
- Record the monitoring process
of this not all 90-100 minutes)
- Present your results
Graph of LC50 and interpret it’s meaning
- Understanding
What are the implications of using herbicide like Roundup near Irish water courses
Make a recommendation on the future use of Roundup along Irish waterways
Video is to be recorded using your mobile device and should be 15-20mins max in length. If you
want to make edits use free online software, if necessary (https://filmora.wondershare.com/videoeditor/free-video-editing-software-windows.html or use youtube). Upload your MP4 file to Moodle.
This assignment was issued to a 3rd yr class
Video Marking Guide
Video Created
Permission has be given by the student to showcase their work and by students present in the video
Permission has be given by the student to showcase their work and by students present in the video
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Role PLay
Turf Talk Role Play
Tonight with Vincent Browne interviews Michael Fitzmaurice regarding his views on turf cutting and saving the Irish people using LED lights and insulation
Tonight with Vincent Browne interviews Michael Fitzmaurice regarding his views on turf cutting and saving the Irish people using LED lights and insulation
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Permission has be given by the student to showcase their work
Student Testimonials
"Enjoyed how assignments were done using different materials i.e. poster, video as well as scientific reports"
"Enjoyed how assignments were done using different materials i.e. poster, video as well as scientific reports"
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