Community Building & Development
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While studying the environmental issues surrounding their state's major aquaculture industry, 3rd graders had to look no further than the polluted river dike outside their school to understand the threat. But in that challenge they also saw a way they could help keep their community's important resource clean.
For many schools, parent involvement is a tremendous challenge, and parents rarely have the opportunity to help in the classroom, the place their children spend the most time. One 4th-grade class changed this by opening its doors to parents through regular poetry readings.
It has been said that math is the international language. It is also a subject that terrifies a lot of students. For both of these reasons, it seemed only natural for one school's 4th- and 5th-grade math classes to organize a multicultural math fair for the rest of the school.
When one teacher introduced a culture curriculum to her 4th-grade students, she discovered that few knew much about their heritages. She and the students brainstormed a fun way to investigate their cultural backgrounds and in the process connected with some interesting community members.
Concerned about the destruction of wetlands in their state, middle-school students hosted an environmental-education program for young children. The event is the first in a series of activities designed to strengthen and rebuild local natural resources.
High school students living with HIV and AIDS collaborated with uninfected peers to teach younger students about the disease.
After reading an article about babies born with AIDS, students decided to make baby blankets to publicize that AIDS affects everyone, even the youngest of children.
After discussing the prejudice faced by people with AIDS, students created a comic book character to teach youths about acceptance and respect.
Acceptance is key in the fight against HIV and AIDS. One class realized this after reading a book about pandemics and society's negative views of the infected. The students worked to counteract harassment within their school.
Inspired after watching a movie on the genocide in Cambodia, students spent several years researching and writing a curriculum to improve education about genocides in other countries.
Based on research showing that families who eat dinner together are more likely to be engaged civically in their communities, one elementary school started a program where students would bring home a recipe and ingredients for biscuits and a set of dinner table discussion questions.
When fifth-graders and a physical education teacher noticed a lot of students in their elementary school were out of shape, they worked together to create a physical fitness challenge that could be replicated at school's across their school.
Students participate in an aging sensitivity course taught by AmeriCorps members and then applied their new knowledge in several projects that promoted senior safety, including the identification of potential environment hazards, disposal of hazardous waste, and preparation of emergency kits.
High school students designed skits focusing on crimes that target the elderly and performed the skits at senior centers. They also surveyed residents in their communities to evaluate critical needs and distributed literature on safety to senior residents.
Students used brown and white eggs and an expansion of the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme to illustrate how no one should be judged by their skin color.
Fourth grade students, fascinated by their town's architectural diversity, decided to research historic sites and create a brochure to educate their neighbors and out-of-town visitors. Through the process, they learned how the buildings reflected the cultural, economic, and political aspects the lives of early 19th-century farmers, plantation owners, slaves, and townspeople. The brochure is now available to residents and tourists who can use it to take a self-guided walking tour of the town.
The Universal Peace Wheel is a cultural art form of kindness for all humanity.
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