SPinquiry will take part in two stages. One before winter Holidays and one that goes from January to Student Led Conferences.

The outcome will be that students create a two minute video about something that will "make a difference" Topics can be anything that will leave a footprint behind.

Part 1 Building Empathy
The goal of part 1 is to have students understand the community where they live. Students will research a variety of charities and find out as much information as possible. Students will create a poster explaining all there is to know about their charity or organization.

Students will have 3 half day sessions. The first is to create groups and choose charities. This meeting will allow students to gather information and start thinking about "big questions"
The second half day will allow students to get answers to their questions and start to formulate "big questions" about why the charities exist.
The third half day will allow students to create their poster and think about "next steps". Some hopefully will want to do more than just make a poster.
Curricular Outcomes

1. Media Literacy
2. Writing
3. Health?
4. Community Activism

Following the winter break the students will be reimmersed into the inquiry process. They will be expected to create a topic that is important to them but..... will make a difference in the world.
Students will have to chose groups and divide up the work. Each group will need to have

1. Topic by @@@@ date
2. Big questions by @@@@ date
3. Research done by @@@@ date
4. Story board for video done by @@@@ date
5. Video done by @@@@ date

The curricular outcomes for this part of the project will be

1. Media Literacy
2. Language Arts and the writing process.
3. Math (include stats/percents)
4. Social Studies Comparing the differences between western world and the 3rd world
5. Science Sustainable Development

The key goal is that students will begin to build empathy towards causes and develop a caring attitude. They should become better citizens. All other aspects of this project take a back seat to this opportunity for personal growth.







Important LInks

Mabry Film Festivals
2008

2007

Games to provoke global awareness

Games

Blogs of interest

Child Labour
Child Labour 2
Amnesty International

Animal Cruelty
Extinction of Animals
Stop Extinction

Poverty
Make Poverty History
Youtube
Poverty News blog

Chocolate?
Child Labour
CBC
youtube

Stephen Lewis Foundation
Homepage
Youtube

Unicef
Homepage
YOutube Channel

Right to Play
Homepage
Youtube
Youtube2

Kidsport
homepage
Blogs about

Polution
Homepage

Climate Change
Homepage
David Suzuki
Homepage

1000000 acts of green

Hunger
Mouths

Alternative Energy
Homepage

Gogreentube.com
Site with only environmental videos

Doctors without borders
Homepage

Fair Trade
CBC
10000 villages
Level ground