| Posted 5/24/2010 at 11:37 AM by PeaceJam Bot | |
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 World Resources Education Project
Project Created: Monday, May 24, 2010
Project Leader: Michelle L
Location: Evergreen, United States
Project Goal: Our goal was to educate the 8th grade class at a local Middle School about precious resources including water. The idea was to use several activities to get students involved in the project and learn about world trading and water consumption. We hoped to leave the students better educated about conservation and more able to get involved and work towards solutions in their own lives.
Project Cause: We realized that very few middle school students knew much about the problems that society faces concerning global resources. We hoped to teach the students more about the issue so that they could make their own decisions regarding how they can help conserve our earth's precious resources.
Project Plan: We organized two different activities for the students to go through.
First, each student would be assigned a fictional country and then they would have to trade resources that they had in plenty for the ones that they needed. To make the activity more difficult, many countries would not be able to trade with one another because of "previous conflicts".
The second activity involved giving each student a differently sized container of water, and then having them drink a specific amount of sips from that container. Some students would not have enough water for their population, some would have too much, and others would have polluted water that was undrinkable.
Through these activities we hoped to create thought-provoking discussions and inspire students to take initiative and start working to make a difference for the environment.
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| Posted 5/25/2010 at 1:13 PM by Shelly P (pupillo888) | |
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 I really like the activities! What a great way to get kids thinking globally. |
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| Posted 5/26/2010 at 3:06 PM by Leslie H (RaspberryJam) | |
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| This is a great project! The younger swimmers on my team are doing a water awareness project, and I've been looking for more hands-on activities. Would you by any chance be willing to share specifics for the activities so others can use them in the classroom or, in my case, on the deck? Thanks (either way)! |
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