India Well
Project Based Approach to Curriculum~ A Win-Win
The grade 4 class at George D. Lewis School under the direction of Mrs. Lorna Minihan began a simple project in the Fall 2008 to raise funds for a well in India. The students were extremely excited about the prospect of helping people obtain clean drinking water for a community and they embraced the fundraising aspect of the project with an exuberance saved only for children. Their goal was to fill a water bottle with change and they used a diagram to plot their success as they collected spare change and emptied piggy banks.
As the project proceeded, Mrs. Minihan included many learning opportunities for students to discover more about the citizens of India and other global communities. As these lessons were taught more and more outcomes from across the curriculum were being achieved. Students counted and graphed money, scheduled workers, recycled, experienced the impact of drought and flood on plants, the trickle down affects of changing habitat, and they documented everything. No less than 47 outcomes were identified in English Language Arts, Science, Math and Health. What began as a single project to dig a well which needed $750.00 turned into a year long project raising more than $2300.00 for World Vision, and enhanced the development of our student’s growth into global citizens.
Congratulations to the Grade 4 class of George D. Lewis School 2008-2009
Mrs. Lorna Minihan, Mrs. Joanne Cross, Brianna Burke, Brody MAcDonald, Lynaya Burke, Hannah MacKeigan, Ryan Burke, Zacchary MacKeigan, Ryan Eisan, Shayla MAcLean, Sara Fiander, David MacLeod, Noah Fraser, Ryan Magee, Christian Hardy, Danielle Parczen-MacIntyre, Adam Harpell, Matthew Peck, Ryley Kennedy, Sienna Wells-Blagdon
