Sunset Middle School opened their doors for Mrs. Hannapel’s fourth graders. Both schools were reading A Long Water to Water, so decided to collaborate on a shared experience. Students were split up among a dozen activities set up around the room. Middle schoolers led learning stations, based on topics of sanitation, clean drinking water, filtration, water cycle/water facts, and Salva’s Water for South Sudan Foundation.
Indian Peaks students were exposed to several hands-on activities including: ~Presentation on places that need clean water and making a water filter ~Large scale model of different forms of sanitation with scale models of bacteria & diseases (all in a fish tank) ~Salva’s Water for South Sudan background and game with terms they learned ~Water filtration experiment ~Water cycle script and role-playing ~Observation/comparison with samples of clean and dirty water ~Slide show on how water filtration works with demo kit from City of Longmont The closing activity included a student-produced digital Jeopardy game using questions form all the stations.
Thanks to Michelle Faye and Lynn Hannapel for organizing this event for students!