Earlier this year Mike Fitzgerald and his fifth grade geography class (aka the Geo-Squirts) created a Natural Disasters/Severe Weather Investigation unit and dedicated it to their friends at the Claret School, Quezon City, the Philippines.  This week the project was featured on St. Louis’ Fox 2 News:

To structure the experience, the unit was comprised of four projects, each with a specific goal:

Project 1 will be a personal interview with a individual who has experienced a significant severe weather event or a natural disaster.

Project 2 will be a series of public service videos that the MICDS students will prepare for their school to educate the entire student body about procedures to follow in the event of an earthquake or a tornado.

Project 3 will be an effort by the MICDS 5th grade to purchase and store Red Cross emergency preparedness kits in classrooms.

Project 4 will be an ongoing effort to collect stories and anecdotes from our partner schools around the world about what natural events they find themselves preparing for and how such events influence how they live their lives.

The final projects, including feedback and input from partner schools, are all available on the class wiki.  If you are interested in joining the project next year, feel free to contact Mike for more information.

Posted: 05|21|10 at 5:58 pm. Filed under: In the Classroom.
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