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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

Project Overview

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

Population

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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.

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ICT, Climate change, vegitations, animals, pouplation, Resource SharingKeywords

Assessing the Impact of Climate Change in Ethiopia Vegetations, Livestock and

Population

Assessing the Impact of Climate Change in Ethiopia Vegetations, Livestock and

Population

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Teacher Planning and Management

Background and Planning

Classroom Images

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Assessing the Impact of Climate Change in Ethiopia Vegetations, Livestock and

Population

Assessing the Impact of Climate Change in Ethiopia Vegetations, Livestock and

Population

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Teaching Resources

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Assessing the Impact of Climate Change in Ethiopia Vegetations, Livestock and

Population

Assessing the Impact of Climate Change in Ethiopia Vegetations, Livestock and

Population

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Student Project Overview: An overview of required tasks.

Sharing Resources: Resources which were downloaded from the web and contributed by teachers for Class room sharing.

Threatened Animal Species of Ethiopia

Biological Resources

Wildlife Resources of Ethiopia

Plant Diveristy of Gamo

The Ecosystems of Ethiopia

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Assessment and Standards

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National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS): Performance indicators for technology-literate students.

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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

Population

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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

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Assessing the Impact of Climate Change in Ethiopia Vegetations, Livestock and

Population