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Guided Reading with SDGs
Guided Reading with SDGs
After we read "The World We Want: A Guide to the Goals for Children and Young People," we did a guided reading activity with the questions embedded in the text. Then, students got to choose their top six Sustainable Development Goals that they felt were most important after learning about all 17.
Student SDG Slideshow Presentations
Student SDG Slideshow Presentations
After choosing their top 6 SDGs in order of importance, we determined which students would partner up to do slideshow presentations. Students used a template to research their SDG and create a slideshow to share with their classmates and another class at our school. Student slideshow presentations are included below:
Sharing on Empatico
Sharing on Empatico
After sharing their presentations with other students in our class and with classrooms at our school, we went to Empatico, which is a website used to connect classrooms with other classrooms around the United States and the globe. Students shared their SDG presentations with other classrooms nationally and internationally.
Continuing the Learning
Continuing the Learning
Studying the UN's SDGs started a wave of students wanting to do service projects to make their world a better place. After reading about global warming and natural disasters with SDG 13: Climate Action, the students wanted to do something to help. We decided to make fleece blankets for Project Linus, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit that collects new blankets to donate to children who have experienced trauma or natural disasters.
Changing Perspectives
Changing Perspectives
After reading about SDG6: Clean Water and Sanitation, our class read the novel based on a true story "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park. Reading about Salva Dut and Nya made the students want to learn more about the pervasive water issues around the globe. The students decided to partner with a nonprofit 503 (c)(3) called H20 For Life to do a fundraiser.
South Sudan School 6
South Sudan School 6
Our students fundraised for Water for South Sudan. This group's operations teams are based in Wau and work in remote villages in the Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan.
These isolated villages have extremely limited access to clean water and often can only access contaminated water which will lead to sickness or even death.
WFSS works with local governments and community leaders to determine the placement of wells. The goal is to create sustainable systems, incorporating well maintenance and training as part of the installation of a well.
Students were excited to work with a school in Sudan, as that was an area that we read about this year in our global studies.
Walk for Water
Walk for Water
The students in the fourth-grade classes raised over $895 for H20 For Life to help with access to water and sanitation. Together, the students wrote an article for the local newspaper to be published.
Idaho State Standards Addressed:
Objective(s): By the end of Grade 4, the student will be able to: 4.SS.5.1.1 Analyze the roles and relationships of diverse groups of people from various parts of the world who have contributed to Idaho’s cultural heritage and impacted the state’s history.
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