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Schools and Community
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Experts:
■ Invite sta who have taught outside of the state or country to share their experiences about going to school. Encourage them to bring pictures and share personal stories about their time in school.
■ See if professors from local universities can come speak to the class about how organizations like UNICEF and Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) help communities around the world.
■ Invite the art teacher to come to your room as an art expert and show students how to create strong drawings for their “The Most Important Thing about Schools” books.
■ Invite fourth- or fth-graders to be editing experts and support students in editing “The Most Important Thing about Schools” books.
Fieldwork:
■ Contact your librarian and visit the local library to do more research on boat schools, tent schools, and schools on wheels.
Service:
■ Create a class book from the informational paragraphs students produce and sell them to lo- cal bookstores. Donate these pro ts to one of the community organizations from O to Class.
■ Take a trip to your local library and have students donate their “The Most Important Thing about Schools” books to the library.
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Read other sections from the text O to Class. Document the problem community members faced in sending their students to school and how they solved this problem so students could go to school.
Learn more about speci c organizations a liated with the schools students learned about, such as the Solar Electric Light Fund, UNICEF, etc. See page 62 of the text O to Class for more information.
Have students do research to learn more about other schools in other parts of the world.
Research the countries of origin of students and help all students make connections between their country of origin and the topic or text. Research and share di erent kinds of schools in the students’ countries and communities of origin. Privately discuss what you found with students before the lesson. During the lesson, tell students: “I searched online and found out that _____ (country), where _____ (name of student) is from, has a very interesting type of school.” Share the information you found on the topic or text and invite the student to share his or her experience with the class. Record patterns in student responses on a Schools around the World anchor chart.
Invite students to discuss schools with their family and friends at home, and then share what they learn with the class. Students can bring objects from home to enhance the sharing. Ask students to record patterns on a School Experiences Poster.
Invite students to create another “The Most Important Thing about Schools” book using another school from O to Class.
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