Quenching our Thirst: Water Quality Project for Primary School

The grade 3 class of our school, the American International School of Mozambique, is looking for primary school classes in other parts of the world interested in collecting data on the topic of local water usage, quality and sources. We would love to compare and share our results through collaboration using the Internet and online communication.

Global Collaborative Projects are a new venture for our school, but we are excited to give this a try.

Our grade 3 students are involved in a unit of inquiry about our local water usage and quality. The students will create an online survey of our local community to examine how water is being used and in what quantities. They are also planning a visit to the local treatment plant and the dam.

We are looking for any classes with whom we can share our survey and exchange data.

As we are new to this, we are open to flexible planning.

Would you like to help us out by having your local community take our survey and then we can compare results?

Let me know,

Sharon Peters

Technology Coordinator

American International School of Mozambique

Replies

Waciuma Wanjohi April 21, 2011 at 9:41pm

Sharon,

Yes! The 3rd grade of the American School of Bombay is just beginning our Unit of Inquiry "Water is a natural resource that has many uses." We would love to join this project.
- Sharon Brown-Peters > Waciuma Wanjohi April 22, 2011 at 3:25am
  
  Hi Waciuma,
  
  You sound as if you are also a PYP school - wonderful! Please email me at sharonpeters@gmail.com and I can share the details of our unit plans so far.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Sharon
Robin Cochran Dirksen April 18, 2011 at 9:24am

Hello Sharon!

I am in South Dakota, U.S. and my students are involved with many water qualtiy projects. I teach high school, but will work with a second grade teacher in May to do a water quality assessment by collecting aquatic insects in our stream. My high school students will be paired with the elementary students to do the research. I would love to work with you in any way possible and look forward to hearing from you soon.

Here are a couple of our projects-

https://thedirksenplace.wikispaces.com/Englewood+Springs+Botanical+...

http://bridgingclassroomsandcultures.bosco-uganda.wikispaces.net/
- Sharon Brown-Peters > Robin Cochran Dirksen April 22, 2011 at 3:24am
  
  Hi Robin,
  
  Could you email me at sharonpeters@gmail.com and I can give you the details of our unit and you can decide if this is a good fit.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Sharon

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