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!
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