Show Me The Money

In the picture above 19 students are showing off actual paper currency from around the the world. Student introduced themselves and shared the country of origin for their money. We briefly identified where each country was on Earth.

Once this was done we had a conversation about teaming with the High School International Club to participate in their H2O for Life Campaign. The goal of this project would be to raise awareness and funds for clean water around the world. Students will walk 6km carrying 6L of water to mimic the daily water gathering chores of many children around the world. The kids decided unanimously to take part in this project.

Next we reviewed some of our key vocabulary, ethnicity, culture and social Justice

The students then participated in an activity where they looked at different characteristics of people to decide if these characteristics put them in an "up" or "down" group. "Up" groups receive privilege for this characteristics where "down" groups either see no privileged or feel oppression. For example males would be an "up" group while females would be a "down" group. The students did a wonderful job.

After snack, the students started a continuing project of exploring culture around the world. First we will focus on the many cultures in North America.

Our next meeting will be on March 10th. Both Mr. Anderson and Ms. Hallin are off campus at meetings on March 3rd.

Another great meeting!

2-17 Second Meeting Was Fun

Great turn out. 23 students attended our club meeting today. We started the meeting with introductions. We also reviewed the clubs purpose in an ever shrinking world. Next we discussed three vocabulary items, social justice, ethnicity and race.

Our snacks for the day were Chinese Cookies and coconut in honor of the new Year of the Tiger.

Here students are marking their historic ethnicity on a map of the world. We also brainstormed how we would promote ethnic pride in our school. The picture below is of the the whole group of students.

We promised the kids we would do a silly picture as a way of getting them to sit still in the picture above.

Feb. 10, 2010 First Meeting of the School year.

We had a great first meeting of the year today. Eight students participated in a mapping activity where each individual identified countries that they were connected to ethnically or culturally. Our group connected to 36 points on the map, illustrating the importance of developing intercultural skills.

In the activity pictured below we explored the distribution of wealth in the United States. Each student represented 10% of the nations population and each chair equaled 10% of the nations wealth. We learned that the most wealthy student (10%) had 7 chairs to sit in while the other 9 students (90%) needed to share the remaining 3 chairs. We concluded the activity with a discussion about why some have more than others. Did the students think it was fair?

Here we are on the computers teaching the students to access our blog.


The last picture is of the students being goofy. Who wins the funny face contest?