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EDTC 526
Azusa Pacific University
Lourdes Creus
Table of Contents

Projects Pages

Kids Can Make a Difference 3

Kids Can Make a Difference Webage 4 -5

Kids Can Make a Difference 6 -7

Souls 4 Souls 11

Souls 4 Souls Webpage 12 - 14

Souls 4 Souls Lesson Plan 20 - 21

Earth Day Project 22

Earth Day Project Synopsis 21-25

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Earth Day project Lesson Plan Earth Day Project
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Conclusion
Project #1

Kids Can Make A

Difference
Url: Kidscanmakeadifference.org
Telecollaborative Structure: Social
Action Project
Kids Can Make A Difference

Home

Kids Can Make A Difference KIDS ®

An educational program for middle- and high school students, focuses on the root causes of hunger and
poverty, the people most affected, solutions, and how students can help.

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INSPIRING KIDS TO END HUNGER

AND POVERTY
IN THEIR COMMUNITIES, THEIR
COUNTRY, AND THEIR WORLD.
KIDS is a program of iEARN (International Education and Resource Network), the
world's largest non-profit global network.
iEARN enables teachers and youth to use the Internet and other technologies to
collaborate on projects that enhance learning and make a difference in the world.

https://www.kidscanmakeadifference.org/[6/6/2017 2:29:29 PM]

Description of the project

This is an educational project where kids are educated,

inspired and take action to help end hunger and inequality
in their community. Teachers teach the root causes of
hunger and students discuss various solutions to solve
this problem. There are many ways to help solve hunger:

1.) Education - Teachers teach students about hunger.

How does it happen? Who is affected? What can we
do to help?
2.) Volunteer - There are a hundred ways to volunteer:
feed the homeless, tutor students who are homeless,
prepare food for homeless, help provide breakfast and
so much more.
Kids can Make a Difference
Continued...

3.) Write letters to government officials, community

leaders, magazines, newspapers about hunger in the
community and ways for us to solve it.

4.) Give testimony to lawmakers about ending hunger in

our community, provide solutions to solve this problem,
and ask lawmakers to protect our citizens by working
together.

5.) Fundraise through bake sale, talent show, car wash,

walkathon, canned food drive, birthday donation, art show,
and many more.

Note: Students did not participate in this project due to time

constraints.
Lesson Plan for Kids Can Make
a Difference
Anticipatory Set: Teacher focuses students on the lesson; may connect it to prior
learning.
Ask the students: “Did you know that 800 million people around the world go to bed
hungry each night? When was the last time you went to bed hungry? How do you think
it feels to go to bed hungry?”

Continue with questions to peak students’ interests: “Why do you think people go
hungry?”
Brainstorm with class and write ideas on the board.
Instruction: Students acquire new information.
Let’s pretend that your family just moved to India, and your father earns $3.00 a day.
What things or food can you buy for $3.00? Do you think $3.00 can feed a family of 4
every day?

Teacher reviews the values of coins used to purchase goods: quarter, dime, nickel, and
penny.

Students write on their paper the value of each coin.

Teacher provides students a small bag of play money and as a class have the students
to identify coins by holding coin up and give value out loud.
Then teacher introduces various items with prices on them that students can buy with
the money in their bags:

Juice box - $ 0.75

Jump rope - $ 0.85
Comb - $ 0.90
Candy bar - $ 0.85
Pen - $ 0.50
Apple - $ 0.55
Notebook - $ 0.65
Crackers - $ 0.60
Pencil - $ 0.25
And others as needed for students

Guided Practice: Teacher supervises the students as they practice new learning.
Have the students go in groups of three and have students repeat the same activity by
giving their partners various amounts of money. Give students time to repeat this
activity several times and play with the coins.

Teacher goes around and checks to see if students are understanding the activity and
values of coins.

Closure: Teacher provides an activity to review the lesson.

Teacher gives each group a bucket with six of the various items listed above to
purchase. Each group will play store with those items. One student will be the store
owner to sell the items. The other students will take turns purchasing those items with
the coins they have. Each student will have $2.00 worth of coins to play with.
Teacher allows the students time to share information they learned about money and
buying things.
Connection to Kids Can Make a Difference Project: discuss the different ways that the
students can help kids that go hungry. Then, talk about the Kids Can Make a Difference
Project.

Independent Practice: Teacher provides opportunity for unsupervised practice, if

students are ready.

Give each store owner a three to four minute limit so that each group member has
time to be the store owner at these once. Teacher monitors group work and
provides assistance when needed. Teacher will go around to assess and give
feedback to students. This way, students will know if they are counting the money
correctly as they buy products from the store owner.

***Note: this project was not implemented due to

time constraints***
Project #2

Souls4Souls
Url: Souls4souls.org
Telecollaborative Structure: Social
Action Project
Home - Soles4Souls

Have a Heart, Give a Sole

FIND A STORE

Where do I drop off my shoes?

FIND LOCATIONS

How can you help wear out poverty?

https://soles4souls.org/[6/6/2017 2:26:18 PM]

Souls4souls project #2

Description of the project

Souls4souls project is a social action project.

Souls4souls is a non-profit organization created by SUAVS

shoes based in Austin, Texas, that strives to

1.) help citizens of developing nations by donating gently

worn shoes
2.) Empowers families in developing nations by re-selling
gently worn shoes provided by donors
3.) Help the earth, by keeping gently worn shoes and
clothes from landfills
Souls4souls continued

This project teaches our students the importance of giving,

sharing, being mindful, taking simple steps to solve a
problem and thinking globally by getting involved in simple
ways.

1.) Donate their gently worn shoes to Souls4souls

families.
2.) Host a shoe drive in their community
3.) Donate monetary funds to the organization
4.) Help distribute the shoes to families in need
5.) Help spread the word around about the project
through facebook, pinterest, twitter, and linked in
The Five Step Lesson Plan
Souls 4 Souls Project
Anticipatory Set: Teacher focuses students on the lesson; may connect it to prior
learning.
Ask students about things that concern them about the neighborhood, their school, or
places they see on tv. Read the poem “If I were in charge of the world” by Judith Viorst.

Then talk about things that we can change. Have the students fll in these blanks:
“If you were the boss of the playground, [the school, the world, etc.] what would you do
to make it a better place?
I would like to stop.
I think should change.”

Brainstorm ideas on things we can do to solve problems.

List ideas on the board.
Segway to Souls4Souls project.

Instruction: Students acquire new information.

Present the Souls4souls website.
Talk about the 400 million children around the world that do not have shoes.
Talk about families that live on less than $1.90 a day.
Ask them: “what can you buy for $1.90 a day that will keep you fed, warm, and healthy?”
Explain how Souls4souls project works and how it helps families all over the world.
Ask students how we can help others by participating in souls4souls project.
Decide on a way to participate in the project as a class.
There are three ways to help. Should we give shoes, give money, or help distribute
shoes to families in need.
Guided Practice: Teacher supervises the students as they practice new learning.
Ask the students how can we collect shoes? Can we bring shoes from home? Can we
ask our neighbors, friends, and community leaders to donate?
Have the students go in groups of 3 to 4 and discuss ways to collect shoes? From who?
Where can we drop off shoes? Guide the students to check the website on shoe drop
off locations and other ways to help. Can students collect money as well?
Ask the students to decide on the resources needed to participate in this project. How
much time is needed. Is there money involved? How much energy will each student
have to put forth to make this happen?
Have the students create a timeline and decide on who is doing what for the project. Be
sure that everyone has a task in the group.
Teacher goes around the class and observes each groups’ disccusion

Closure: Teacher provides an activity to review the lesson.

Have the students present their discussions to class.

Independent Practice: Teacher provides opportunity for unsupervised practice, if

students are ready.

Students will work together to fnalize their timeline and their plan for carrying out the
project.

***Note: Students did not participate in

this project due to time constraints***
Project #3

Earth Day Groceries

Project
Url: Earth Day Groceries Project
Telecollaborative Structure: Social
Action Project
 Earth Day Groceries Project
Description

Eearth Day Groceries project is an awareness project for

elementary students, where students are asked to decoraten
paper grocery bags with environmental messages. Students
get creative with various ways to decorate these bags. This
project was started by a retired third grade teacher in Seattle,
Washington, Mr. Mark Ahlness.

There are 4 steps to this project: Borrow the bags, decorate

the bags, deliver them back to the store where we borrowed
them, then we report our scores to the website.

This is an international project where schools and groups all

over the world can join.
Earth Day Groceries Project
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http://www.earthdaybags.org/[6/6/2017 2:24:31 PM]

Lesson Plan for
Earth Day Groceries Bag
Anticipatory Set: Teacher focuses students on the lesson; may connect it to prior
learning.
Ask the students if they have heard about Earth Day. If they have, what do they know
about it? What do they think it’s about? Explain that it’s one day out of the year where
the whole world remembers and celebrates our planet earth, and we find ways to
protect it. Have the class discuss about the topic.
Instruction: Students acquire new information.
Have students read “Earth Day” article from national geographic: Earth Day Article
Then check the students’ understanding of the article by asking the following questions:
1.) When did the first day earth day happen?
2.) What was the name of the senator that started earth day? Why?
3.) What did people do on the first celebration of earth day?
4.) What kinds of laws were passed in honor of earth day?
5.) What other countries celebrate earth day?
6.) Ask the students what interesting fact they learned about the article they just
read?
Guided Practice: Teacher supervises the students as they practice new learning.
Ask students what we can do to try and solve these problems? Can we:
1.) Spread awareness?
2.) Help educate others about recycling?
3.) Donate and reuse clothes and shoes?
4.) Turn off water and electricity when we don’t need them?
Have the students write these problems and solutions onto their notebooks and check
them.
Provide concrete examples that students and families can do in their own home to help
the planet and create less. Brainstorm ideas:
1.) Use reusable bags to create less waste
2.) Donate gently used shoes and clothes to organizations that can distribute to
needy families
 3.) Educate families and neighbors about the impact of trash on earth

Introduce the Earth Day Groceries project and what they do to celebrate and protect the
earth
Show the presentation from the earth day groceries project website and explain the
project, what it does, and how it protects and celebrates earth.
Show samples of the decorated bags from the project

Closure: Teacher provides an activity to review the lesson.

Ask the students to decorate the grocery bags with key points they learned from the
lesson.
Provide samples of finished products from the website.
Independent Practice: Teacher provides opportunity for unsupervised practice, if
students are ready.

Students are given independent time to practice designing the bags with important
messages about saving the earth. Their designs will be on a piece of paper and later
will be transferred onto the grocery bags.
 Earth Day Groceries Project
Synopsis
Assessment:

1.) Students were asked to read a pro/con article about climate

change. This is the article I used.
2.) Students were asked to write a paragraph using the M.E.A.
L format, on whether they believe that the climate change is
caused by humans. This is the template that I used.

Anticipatory Set:

1.) I asked the students why they think it’s 100 degrees today.
I mentioned that it was May and the weather was not
supposed to be this hot until August.
2.) There were a variety of answers but no one mentioned
anything about humans contributing to it.

.
Earth Day Groceries Project
Synopsis

3.) We had a discussion on what they thought the reasons were

for the severe climate changes these past few years. Everyone
had a unique answer. One student said that the climate is what it
is because that is just the nature of it. Another student
responded with the importance of each and everyone of us doing
our part in recycling our bottles and cans so that we don’t make
the earth any hotter. Another student said that we are the cause
for the earth getting hotter.

4.) I them showed them this NASA website that shows a

compilation of scientific data on a simple graph which clearly
shows the severe weather climate changes. You can see it here.
Earth Day Groceries Project
Synopsis

As long as they gather evidence and explain their analysis using

the M.E.A.L Template.

My students were not excited to write a M.E.A.L. paragraph so I

decided to make it a bit more fun, by enticing them with a price.
Whoever wrote the most convincing evidence or argument will
win a bag of candy from me.

So the students wrote their M.E.A.L. paragraph and this is the

link to their work.

According to the evidence the students had provided, most of

them believe that humans do not contribute to the climate
change and recent global warming.
Earth Day Groceries Project
Synopsis
Earth Day Groceries Project
Synopsis

The next day, I showed them a documentary called Chasing Ice,

which is about a researcher who gathered evidence throughout
the years on the melting glaciers in Antartica.

Then, I asked the students the same question: do they think

humans contribute to the climate change and the melting of
glaciers. The results shifted. The majority of the students now
believe that humans do contribute to climate changes.

Consensus: We discussed different ways that we can help save

the earth. It was a lively discussion. Ultimately, we decided on
raising awareness to save our planet by designing paper bags
that I had borrowed from Stater Bros. Here are their designs.
Earth Day Groceries Project
Synopsis

Instruction:

I explained to students what M.E.A.L. stood for and how they

are to gather evidence and provide analysis for the writing
project.

Guided Practice:

I gave students an example of a M.E.A.L. paragraph. You

can see it here.
Earth Day Groceries Project
Synopsis

Independent Practice:

I asked them if they believed humans contribute to the climate

change and global warming. I don’t give out homework to my
students because they already get enough from their other
classes. I had them complete their work in class and I just came
by and helped them if they needed my assistance. See student
work here.

work.
Earth Day Groceries Project
Synopsis
I submitted my report to Earthdaybags.org website.
Earth Day Groceries Project
Synopsis

Closure:

I had to send an email to the project manager because I didn’t

see my report on the list. But other teachers’ reports were posted
on the website.
Earth Day Groceries Project
Conclusion

It was surprising to see that the majority of the students did not
think that their actions do not contribute to climate changes. I
felt that the students enjoyed hearing the evidence that others
provided as to how humans contribute or do not contribute to
global warming. The discussions got a bit heated. It was good
to have the students hear various point of views so though so that
1) they sharpen their reasoning skills, and 2) they become more
tolerant of other people’s perspectives.

It was also interesting to see the shift in their opinions, after

seeing the movie Chasing Ice. I think the value of technology is
indescribable here. Through the documentary and evidence
shown in the documentary, the students quickly changed their
minds after seeing the disruption
Earth Day Groceries Project
Conclusion

done to the glaciers. The students felt proud to be a part of the

solution in spreading awareness to others in the community by
decorating the grocery bags with save the earth messages.