BRAINSHARE


 * Use THIS page to share with ALL the AKL 2010 Participants! Are you incorporating any additional or supplemental projects? Do you have any interesting discussion topics? Are you participating in any water awareness projects? What have you done in YOUR classroom to prepare for your connection? How will you follow up? Please share here :-)**

​ Hortonville High School welcomes all participants to our wiki [|Water liquid gold] ​(** in Spanish but with lots of links to English sources). Students also created bilingual (Spanish/English) public service announcements which can be viewed on the wiki. They have planned many activities for world water week: water jug carry, sharing their wiki and public service announcements with other classes, a penny war to raise money to purchae ceramic water filters for ERSLA.org to distribute in Nicaragua, and a toilet queue for world water day. **

Excellent! Thanks for pioneering the BRAINSHARE page Ms. Smith! As we continue to build comments here, I suggest you add ABOVE the last comment to keep things in chronological order AND select a different color so we can easily determine separate entries!

Hi there from Greenville Elementary! We are a third grade class who received a grant for our project Planet Smith Goes Green. We are studying water sanitation issues, mainly a blend of water pollution and water conservation. We participated in a water jug carry in January. We learned about global water issues, and carried just one gallon around all day to see what it would feel like. We were shocked to hear about how many places in our world don’t have clean water and felt badly that we take it for granted.

We just welcomed a guest speaker from a nature center who specializes in water conservation. She showed us just how much water an average American uses each day. We calculated how much water is wasted per year (in gallons) with a leaky faucet. We got to see what a rain barrel is and learn how it is used, we saw how wetlands work as natural water treatment plants and last we thought of ways we can conserve water.

We started a school wide recycling program (our school did not have bins for plastic, glass and aluminum in the classrooms). We thought that if we can recycle these items, it will keep garbage out of our waterways. We are also collecting caps, which cannot be recycled in our area, to send to Aveda Cosmetics who will use them for their packaging.

Those are the things in our grant that are related to water issues. We can’t wait for the day that we Skype to see what is happening in Guatemala! At this point we aren't sure how we are going to follow up but we will be putting on a program for the rest of the school to share all of the things we have learned.