Student Workshop Session #2 6:35- 7:20 10/20/16

#5 – Poverty Alleviation Through Sports

American International School of Kingston

Room B30

Fight Against Poverty

Essential Question:

How do sports and play impact the young children in poverty? What can someone do to help alleviate poverty?

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Impact Statement:

We have successfully served 110 students, faculty, and staff members of Shady Grove Basic School in Kingston, Jamaica by holding a toy drive that collected 678 toys and playground equipment for the children. We plan to raise enough money to give the school brand new playground equipment and repaint their playground.

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Workshop Description:

Our project is about how the societal standards that we all face in our daily lives can affect not only how we treat ourselves, but how we treat others. Our learning goal for those who come to our workshop is for them to walk away with a greater understanding of our society. Once they have this greater understanding, they can move on to have a greater understanding of themselves, unrelated to the tinted glass of our society’s view. Our hope is to build a sense of self worth in people. View our slides.

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#6 – Recycling Paper: A Social Perspective

American School of Recife

Room B32

Deforestation and Education for All

Essential Question:

How can we involve the community of the school to issues related to recycling material programs and their social impacts?

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Impact Statement:

The awareness of the community of the school to the recycling program after following the whole process, from the collecting of the paper to the use of money to help people in the Hospital do Câncer de Pernambuco will make a big difference to improve this action.

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Workshop Description:

We aim to create an educational video about the whole process of recycling paper. This project performs in partnership with the Hospital de Câncer de Pernambuco and we want to show the social importance of recycling materials

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#7 – ECO-School Accreditation

The Columbus School

Room B33

Climate Change and Education For All

Essential Question:

How will the ECO Schools Accreditation program make your school a greener place?

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We have served the Columbus School community since 2015 by using the ECO Schools program and seven steps plan to organize teachers, administration, students, and other community members to become more aware of their personal habits, and encouraging the school to take on programs that lower the carbon footprint and make it a “greener” environment.

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Workshop Title:

Different Paths in Accreditation
Video Trailer link:  https://youtu.be/79DQAIWbR9g Presentation Link:tr https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vEmOxQYzoEYwgvL6qrB0XGo5i61Z6y6Dlztb1UKLI64/edit?usp=sharing

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Description of workshop (200 words or less): During the “Different Paths in Accreditation” workshop students will learn how in the process of accreditation they will make their schools more ecologically friendly. While following the steps to get your school accredited students will encounter step number two titled  “Carry out an Environmental Review,” during this step students will have to choose one or two of the ten pathways that they will focus on the make their school more “green”. This workshop focuses on teaching students how they will determine which pathway to choose, why are they choosing that pathway, in addition to various methods or solutions to solve the problems at their school. Students will achieve this learning by participating in an activity where they are given scenarios of the possible current state of their school and they must try to come up with a creative yet attainable solution to solve the issue.
Learning Goals (1-3):
-What is Eco-schools-Learn the different paths Eco School Accreditation offers.-Leading by examples 		Essential Question: How will the ECO Schools Accreditation program make your school a greener place?
Materials:

  • Computer
  • Writing Utensil
 Tech needs:

– Projector

– If possible mac adaptor for projector
Educational Outline (15-20 minutes):

  • Introduction
    • Good Morning… etc
    • Driving Question
    • Go through the 7 steps
    • Impact Statement
  • Showing the importance of choosing the right path
    • Biodiversity
      • Threats
      • What Can we do?
    • Climate change
    • Consumption and waste
    • Energy
    • Healthy living
    • Healthy School
    • Schoolyard Habitats
    • Sustainable foods
    • Transportation
    • Water
  • Introducing the Activity
Active Participation Outline (20-25 minutes):

-Board game instructions:

-Objective:

-Beat the opposing team by getting three correct answers which will hopefully make (if you are not blocked) a straight line in any direction.

-Rules:

  1. You only have one pass to change of problem/situation every time you play against a new team.
  2. Winners will compete against winners and losers against losers. Those who lose will continue to play although will not win a prize at the end as winners move up and more are eliminated.-
  3. Before answering, consult with your team members (only your team members) to see if they agree.
  4. The line cannot be blocked by the opposing team in order to win.
  5. In case of a tie, one last problem will be given to both teams. The team with the quickest, yet correct response will win the match.
  6. There will be three matches, each one lasting 8 minutes.

-Instructions:

  1. Create 8 teams with people from different schools for variety of ideas. (Sorted out by colors which will compete against each other in the 4 boards that we have on the classroom floor.  
  2. We will paste 8 sheets of different colors, representing each team on the board. Here we will mark how many games they have won or lost.
  3. Teams 1 and 8 will compete against each other. 2 and 7, 3 and 6, 4 and 5.
  4. Each team will pick a representative to stand in each cell where they will take out of a bag a random scenario from the 10 path where they will be asked to find the solution.
  5. If the team comes up with an appropriate and viable solution, then they can stay and empower their cell. However, if they fail to do so, the other team will have the chance to respond correctly and take the cell for their own.
  6. The first team to form a line conformed by 3 consecutive cells in any direction will win and “classify” to the next round.
  7. This filter will continue to apply until the last two teams that are in the competition confront each other.
  8. The members of the winning team will earn the prize.

-Prize: Colombian souvenirs (8 in total depending on the amount of people on the winning team). If there are more than 8 people, the prize will be chocolatinas Jumbo.

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#8 – School Design

American School of Tegucigalpa

Room B35

Education For All

Essential Question:

How can recycling textiles and clothes help our communities, our school, and the environment?

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By October 2016, we want to successfully serve one school, using old school uniforms and clothes and recycling them into pencil pouches, tote bags, bottle holders, shoe laces,backpacks and many more. By working as a team and asking for donations to our community, we will accomplish our goal of effectively organizing our school community and promoting textile recycling.

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Our School Designs project consists of recycling school uniforms and clothes. We will collect donations from our school community. Then, we will convert the school uniforms and clothes into other products like tote bags, pencil pouches, hair bows, purses, etc. and donate them to schools with limited resources.. We will create a workshop in our school so students volunteer and they will create the products we will later donate. The problem we wanted to solve was that the children who attend low income schools don’t have bags and other school supplies.  This project also benefits the world due to its recycling component, which reduces pollution. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XKSBTqnAWWZECCq_7maUC79DptOOH2WWmd0MczmIZO8/edit?usp=sharing

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