This field trip is used as a way to LAUNCH our next PBL unit, "How can we use our creativity to help?" Students will be taking a closer look at the world around them, identifying problems they see, and coming up with ways they can help! The Gates Foundation is the perfect place to start thinking about this. Students were able to think about what problems our world faces, how people around the world go about trying to solve those problems, and what our role in this problem solving might be. This was the perfect launch into us diving into our partnership with Dwankhozi Basic School in Zambia and our next project.
Thanks brave chaperones for all of your support!
Thanks brave chaperones for all of your support!
Clean Water
This week we started taking a closer look at one specific world problem; the global water crisis. We learned a little about the water cycle to help us understand that all the water we have now is all the water we will ever have. We are all connected! How we treat water here effects water in other areas. Our 2nd graders a few years ago, now 4th graders made a video tied to their PBL project about the global water crisis to help raise awareness of this global problem. We will keep this learning going throughout the project as well as dive into other world problems as a class.