Water For the Thirsty
Anna Loudermilk, Samantha Worley, B.J. Kearns, Michelle Kitchens,
Elizabeth Lunsford, and Carley Wethern
"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."
~Henry Ward Beecher
Content (Learning about)
Earthquakes
Geography/Map Skills
Graphing data
Exploring Culture
Fractions
Composing Friendly Letters
Service Need
The people of Haiti are lacking basic needs such as food, water, and shelter due to the recent earthquake that destroyed homes and took the lives of many. If students and the community are made aware of the continued need for supplies such as drinking water, they can be encouraged to choose to aid in supplying the people of Haiti with suitable drinking water.
Service Idea
(Collecting Bottled Water for Haiti)
To encourage awareness of global issues and to promote students to become conscientious members of their world.
Preparation
Make connections for delivery of the water that we collect
Research the vast need of water
Make connections throughout grade levels with teachers that will partner with us
Plan learning experiences to make our students aware of geographic Location of Haiti
The body's need for water
The amount of water needed among the Haitian communities
Make the local newspaper aware of the efforts
Notes From Meeting With Principal
On February 24, 2010, the senior student teachers met with Dr. Sallad
to discuss the planning and implementation of a Service Learning
Project that would encourage students to become aware of global issues
as a result of implementing valuable learning experiences. These
experiences will encourage students to make a difference in the lives
of others. The decision was made that we would educate students about
Haiti, the recent earthquake that caused destruction and the basic
needs of those in Haiti at this time. After educating the students
about Haiti, we will ask the students to collect bottled water to send
to Haiti. Dr. Sallad approved the project.
Notes From Meeting With Principal
On February 24, 2010, the senior student teachers met with Dr. Sallad
to discuss the planning and implementation of a Service Learning
Project that would encourage students to become aware of global issues
as a result of implementing valuable learning experiences. These
experiences will encourage students to make a difference in the lives
of others. The decision was made that we would educate students about
Haiti, the recent earthquake that caused destruction and the basic
needs of those in Haiti at this time. After educating the students
about Haiti, we will ask the students to collect bottled water to send
to Haiti. Dr. Sallad approved the project.
Demonstration
Students throughout grade levels will collect bottled water and bring it to school for a week.
Each grade level will set a grade level goal for themselves and if they reach that goal they will be rewarded.
Displays of the amount of water collected by each grade level will be present in a common area of the school in order for the students to monitor their progression toward their goals.
Action
As students learn about Haiti and the earthquake that has recently occurred, they will begin to be able to connect themselves to this nation. Hopefully, students will be able to understand the need for the water and feel a sense of pride by taking action by:
Creating commercials
Making posters
Writing letters
Writing to persuading Milledgeville businesses to become involved
Contributing bottles of water
Action
As students learn about Haiti and the earthquake that has recently occurred, they will begin to be able to connect themselves to this nation. Hopefully, students will be able to understand the need for the water and feel a sense of pride by taking action by:
Creating commercials
Making posters
Writing letters
Writing to persuading Milledgeville businesses to become involved
Contributing bottles of water
Curricular Connections
ELA: Write encouraging friendly letters to children of Haiti / Cause and Effect
Social Studies/History: Geography/Map Skills/ Cultural Study
Mathematics: Mathematics activities and problems based upon the quantity of water
collected (fractions, graphs, word problems, percentages, etc.)
Science: Discuss Earthquakes (cause and effect)
Languages: Show a clip of the people of Haiti speaking in their native language while discussing the culture of Haiti
Art and Music: Students will design posters to encourage donations; a video clip will be
shown to celebrate the music of the people of Haiti
Other: Video and computer technology will be utilized to locate Haiti, view photographs
and videos of the people as well as the devastation caused by the recent
earthquake.
Books
Tap~Tap by Karen Lynn WilliamsSelavi
That is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope by Youme Landown
Circles Of Hope By Karen Lynn Williams
Jump into Science: Earthquakes by Ellen J. Prager, Susan Greenstein
Community Contacts
• GCSU Give Center
• The Union Recorder
• The Baldwin Bulletin
Youth Voice and Choice
The students within each classroom vote to set a goal for their homeroom class and also their grade level to reach. The students will brainstorm and create ways to encourage others to participate.
Reflection
Students in all of the classes that we are in held group discussions about what they were doing to help. They talked about how it made them feel to help and what it might mean to the people of Haiti for us to send them the water.We revived wonderful insight into the minds of these children and what it means to them to be able to help someone. They were also full of ideas and willing to give freely of themselves to help another nation. Students really participated in an ongoing reflection process through free writing, creating posters, drawing, creating songs, writing commercials, and writing letters.
Reflection
Students in all of the classes that we are in held group discussions about what they were doing to help. They talked about how it made them feel to help and what it might mean to the people of Haiti for us to send them the water.We revived wonderful insight into the minds of these children and what it means to them to be able to help someone. They were also full of ideas and willing to give freely of themselves to help another nation. Students really participated in an ongoing reflection process through free writing, creating posters, drawing, creating songs, writing commercials, and writing letters.
Students Made Posters
Students Wrote Commercials, Songs, and Letters
Students participated in the hanging of the posters and the collecting of the water.
Notes
We are asking for students to bring in donations of water rather than monetary donations so that the students can visualize their gift to a struggling nation. We are also doing this in response to concerns about the frequency of which the students are asked for monetary donations to charity. We are hoping to instill a sense of caring and consideration for those less fortunate as we encourage the students to donate drinking water.
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