Our fourth grade class at Centennial K-8 went walking around our community looking for issues and strengths. People from our community came and talked to us about issues.
We used criteria-based decision making to decide which issue we wanted to do our service learning project on.Our issue was people wasting water.
Once we chose our issue, we went to the computer lab and did lots of research about water usage. We looked at bills from homeowners, renters and businesses. Experts on saving water came in to our class and taught us some of the ways to save water.
We picked a bunch of actions to save water, again using criteria-based decision making. Our final decision was to do a school assembly, write a newspaper article, put up conservation flyers around the school, and last but not least we did a “water challenge.”
We had students chose three ways they would conserve water, have their parents sign it and return it on May 22nd for a “Water Extinct, What Do You Think?” t-shirt. We believe our project was a big success because we will get most of our pledges back and we learned something new so that we can save water and the people who need it in the future will have it!
Ms. Christine Albert's fourth grade class at Centennial K-8 was sponsored by the Ambrose Family for the 2005-06 school year. For a donation of $3,500 you can make an entire year of hands-on, transformative learning available to a whole class of deserving students. Contact Anna Brower today to sponsor a classroom for 2006-07.