The project uses “kenkey” making to unearth scientific principles/processes to enhance integration of teaching/learning. The project enabled the Home Economics teachers to work with community members in kenkey making on a multi-disciplinary issue. The project was also interdisciplinary because it involved several curricular areas such as Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Integrated science as well as Food and Nutrition. Find other great lessons like this one on the Partners in Learning Network (Africa): http://africa.partnersinlearningnetwork.com

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raise awareness of how the ICT capability, as set out in the National
curriculum for ICT and taught in ICT lessons, can be applied and
developed in Geography and Biology.
provide opportunities for students to learn in alternative and
challenging ways using a wide range of sources of information and
techniques to support critical thinking.
Help students to refine and present their ideas more effectively and
in various ways.
make students creative, problem solver and researcher
Objectives
Learning Areas Preparatory School Geography and Biology
Levels Teachers and Students of ages 16-21 years old
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Assessing the Impact of Climate Change in Ethiopia Vegetations, Livestock and
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Assessing the Impact of Climate Change in Ethiopia Vegetations, Livestock and
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Description The project involved the teachers and students basic computer
training. After the training teachers search the internet and prepared a
video simulation and presentation for their lesson topics. Students
observe different climatic regions of Ethiopia using Bing map and
Encarta, gather information from the internet about dominant
vegetations and animals, and the population distribution across the
regions. And then develop researches, list down the major threat and
suggest some possible solutions to alleviate the problems in relation
with the climatic conditions. They also follow-up their lessons with the
support of computers; communicate and submit their assignments to
their teacher and prepared presentations for their researches.
To enrich the resource library teachers prepared downloadable web
resources and collected local resources.
Authors Mekonnen Assefa Akele, Yekatit 12 Preparatory School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
MS Word, MS Excel, MS PoerPoint, InternetExplorer, Microsoft
Encarta, Bing Map Viwer, Windows Media Player , Microsoft Learning
Essentials, Microsoft e-Learning, Autocollage, community clips, office
ribbon hero, pptplex, chartadvisor.
Software
ICT, Climate change, vegitations, animals, pouplation, Resource SharingKeywords
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Assessing the Impact of Climate Change in Ethiopia Vegetations, Livestock and
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Assessing the Impact of Climate Change in Ethiopia Vegetations, Livestock and
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Student Project Overview: An overview of required tasks.
Sharing Resources: Resources which were downloaded from the web
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Threatened Animal
Species of Ethiopia
Biological Resources
Wildlife Resources
of Ethiopia
Plant Diveristy of
Gamo
The Ecosystems of
Ethiopia
Posters and
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Assessment Rubrics: Examples of assessment rubrics provided to
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against curriculum standards.
National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS):
Performance indicators for technology-literate students.
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School
The former school named by Etege Menen which is now called Yekatit 12 was the first
Ethiopian girls school. It was founded 79 years ago in 1931 by Emperess Menen who was
the wife and consort of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia. The school had started with
50 girl students but starting from 1965 the school began to accept both girls and girls
giving equal opportiunity for them. At this moment the scool has 1989 students of grade 11
and 1168 studentsstudents of grade 12 .
Teacher
The teacher a self motivated person who has involved himself in many projects, he
teach IT courses in the school, founder and chair perosn of ICT club; he also
served as a president of ICT package which is one of the six pacakges designed by
Education Beroue of Ethiopia for schools. He works on different software
localization program such as Microsoft Vista , Microsoft Office 2007 and Google
Products.
Assessing the Impact of Climate Change in Ethiopia Vegetations, Livestock and
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Assessing the Impact of Climate Change in Ethiopia Vegetations, Livestock and
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Teacher and School Information
School
The former school named by Etege Menen which is now called Yekatit 12 was the first
Ethiopian girls school. It was founded 79 years ago in 1931 by Emperess Menen who was
the wife and consort of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia. The school had started with
50 girl students but starting from 1965 the school began to accept both girls and girls
giving equal opportiunity for them. At this moment the scool has 1989 students of grade 11
and 1168 studentsstudents of grade 12 .
Teacher
The teacher a self motivated person who has involved himself in many projects, he
teach IT courses in the school, founder and chair perosn of ICT club; he also
served as a president of ICT package which is one of the six pacakges designed by
Education Beroue of Ethiopia for schools. He works on different software
localization program such as Microsoft Vista , Microsoft Office 2007 and Google
Products.
Assessing the Impact of Climate Change in Ethiopia Vegetations, Livestock and
Population
Assessing the Impact of Climate Change in Ethiopia Vegetations, Livestock and
Population