- Opening circle (10 min)
Big circle: How do you feel now, what happened to you during the last week?
2. Yellow journalism (10 min)
Volunteer participants get one of the sensational newspaper article titles in Annex 1. They try to act it out and the others try to guess it.
After a few rounds the facilitator encourages a discussion about what kind of titles attract our attention.
3. Would you read it? (25 min)
Participants work in groups. Each group gets the texts and titles in Annex 2.
First they pair the texts with the titles. Then they make two groups: the titles that attract their attention enough, so they would be interested in reading the full artcle and the ones they do not find interesting.
If there are titles that they don’t find interesting enough, they should come up with a better title.
They make up three titles that they think would attract a lot of people.
The groups read out their titles in a big circle and the others try to describe what they think the article could be about.
The facilitator encourages a discussion about click-bait titles, the participants try to think of examples.
4. Used newspaper (10 perc)
Participants work in groups. Each group gets a stack of used newspapers. Their task is to show various creative ways of recycling newspapers into something useful.
5. Closing circle (5 min)
What are you taking away from this workshop? What was the best/ most difficult?
Which school subject would you connect this workshop to?
Annex 1
Indian Covid variant: Areas with highest number of cases – how many are in your region?
‘I missed my own daughter’s wedding and went to my step-daughter’s instead’
‘Amazing!!!’ Lottery winner finds out how much she’s won in emotional Zoom call
Annex 2
Climate change means diet of seaweed, maggots and algae
Kelp, maggots and algae must replace wheat, maize and rice on menus if the world is to feed itself in an era of escalating environmental threats, a Cambridge University study has said.
The researchers suggest that radical changes to the food system will be needed to create “risk-resilient diets” in the face of climate change.
After reviewing hundreds of reports they determined that global malnutrition could be eradicated by farming micro-organisms such as spirulina, a type of bacteria often referred to as blue-green algae that was once eaten by the Aztecs.
Families protest over Ocado depot fumes near Islington school
Dozens of primary school children and their parents gathered outside the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday to object to a “polluting” Ocado depot.
The pupils are unhappy at the food delivery company’s attempt to overturn a council decision that prevents it from establishing a hub next to their north London school. About 35 children from Yerbury primary school in Islington and 20 parents congregated to protest at plans for a 24/7 distribution centre on the Bush industrial estate. Children held up placards that read: “Our air is not for sale.”
Exterminating tropical island rats boosts birds and fish, scientists find
On a small tropical island a black rat pillages a bird’s nest. Not far away a damselfish glides through the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean.
The rat and the fish will never set eyes on each other. Yet researchers have revealed how their fates are entwined. To save the coral reef ecosystem on which the damselfish depends, a new study suggests, it will be necessary to exterminate the rodents.
Renewables growing at record pace
Renewable electricity sources grew at their fastest rate in two decades last year as wind and solar installations boomed despite the pandemic.
A total of almost 280 gigawatts of solar, wind, hydro-electric and other renewable power capacity was added in 2020, the biggest figure in history and a 45 per cent increase on the amount installed in 2019, the International Energy Agency said in a report. That took the world’s total installed capacity to 2,968 gigawatts.
10 ways to be greener in the kitchen
There is a common misconception that your soggy old kitchen roll will be welcome in recycling. It won’t. If it’s unbleached you could put some of it in your home composter (see gardens) but better still is to swap it altogether. The manufacturing of kitchen roll is similar to toilet roll (see bathroom) — and we have serious concerns on deforestation and chemical processing. Switch to an old-fashioned cloth or tea towel that can be laundered with other washing.
Overworking your fridge or freezer uses more electricity than necessary and creates more carbon emissions. Fridges should operate at between 3C and 5C and the freezer at minus 18C (we often have them set colder).