Summerour Middle School Water Project

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Summerour Middle School Water Project
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Our Mission

• To educate Summerour students about the severity
  of water issues that our area, and the
  surrounding areas face and to find ways to
  educate our community about these issues.

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Implementation

• The students spent a week in Guided Study
  learning about the water issues in our world.
• The students wrote letters to community officials
  and our sister school about the issues we face
  and the possible solutions.

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Lessons

• Water Awareness Week March 11-14
• Sixth Grade IB Community Service Project
• Lessons are to be delivered during the guided
  study period on all sixth grade teams.
• Awareness Tuesday and Wednesday
• 1) KWL What do you know about the water
  shortage?
• 2) Video Water video from United Streaming
• Water Smart Water as a Natural Resource
• 3) Graphing lake levels chart levels from the
  past. Students should use graph paper for this
  activity.
• 4) Lastly, have a discussion comparing and
  contrasting lake levels last year and this year.

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Lessons, continued

• Implementation Thursday
• What could we do to help with the drought?
• Problem Solving Guide Students will come up
  with some possible solutions to the problem such
  as recycling water at car washes, low flow
  toilets, water saving devices in the school and
  community, etc.
• Each teacher can focus on one item to implement
  putting a bucket in the bottom of your shower
  rain barrels, etc. Each teacher personalized
  this section to suit his or her interests.

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Lessons, continued

• Reflection Friday
• Student wrote letters to the school board, city
  council members or the students of our new
  partner school in Ecuador.
• Students can wrote letters in English or Spanish
  (if the letter was intended for students in the
  Ecuador school)
• The purpose of the letter was
• If the letter was to the school board, the
  purpose was to recommend practical solutions and
  things that they could implement in schools
  throughout the county.
• If the letter was to the Ecuadorian students, the
  purpose was to tell them about our water problems
  (drought), tell them what we are doing about it
  (conservation) and to ask them what their water
  issues are. Do they have the same water
  problems? Different problems? We could also
  tell them about IB.
• If the letter was to a Norcross city council
  member, the purpose of the letter was to give
  ideas on how council members could promote water
  conservation in Norcross.

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Lake Lanier

• Day 2 Lake Level Data
• Purpose To compare and contrast lake levels.
• Activity Chart lake levels using the data
  below.
• Resources Lake Lanier levels for the last 12
  months
• Source http//tinymicros.com8080/cgi-bin/nph-la
  nier.pl
• Full pool level 1070 feet
• MONTH LAKE LEVEL
• Mar. 16, 2007 1068.18 feet
• Apr. 16, 2007 1068.49 feet
• May 16, 2007 1068.32 feet
• Jun. 16, 2007 1066.08 feet
• Jul, 16, 2007 1064.8 feet
• Aug. 16, 2007 1063.16 feet
• Sep. 16, 2007 1060.37 feet
• Oct. 16, 2007 1057.12 feet
• Nov. 16, 2007 1053.06 feet
• Dec. 16, 2007 1051.02 feet
• Jan. 16, 2008 1051.22 feet
• Feb. 16, 2008 1052.46 feet

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Community Service

• As a community service project we built a rain
  catcher is our schools secret garden.
• We hope to use the collected water to help the
  garden thrive.

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One of our letters!

• Summerour Middle School
• 585 Mitchell Rd.
• Norcross, Ga 30071
• USA
• Brigida Silva de Ochoa
• Avenida Escuela Militar, Chorrillos
• Lima 9
• PERU
• 26 de marzo del 2008
• Algunas personas saben como conservar el agua
  pero otras no. Cuando conservamos el agua
  estamos ayudando al ambiente. Las personas que
  se preocupan en el gasto de agua ahorran agua
  cerrando el caño cuando se cepillan los dientes.
  Tambien ahorran agua cuando se bañan, se duchan
  en máximo cinco minutos.
• El agua es el líquido más necesario de la
  tierra. Todos debemos preocuparnos mucho por
  conservarla, no unos cuantos. No podríamos vivir
  sin este líquido elemental. Si no tomamos agua
  nos podríamos morir de sed, por eso necesitamos
  conservarla.
• Por favor amiga o amigo, escríbeme pronto
  dándome alguna recomendación de tu parte de cómo
  podríamos conservarel agua. Me despido esperando
  tu pronta respuesta,
• Atentamente,
• Ángela

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Our Minds at Work
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Look at us go!
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Rain, rain, come again!
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Heres what we think!

• I think water conservation is a good thing
  because if you dont use your sink for one day
  that would make a difference-Lisa Chang
• I think people should just waste water on what
  they really need like drinking taking
  showers-stuff that you really need-Jacquelin
  Cabrera
• I think saving water is important because 3 is
  fresh water 97 is salt water-Lesly Ocana
• Dont dump trash in lakes, rivers, oceans, and
  any other places there are water.-Elizabeth
  Oliveros

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Reflections

• As a school, we decided that it is our job and
  the job of people our age to educate people on
  the water problems our area and the world around
  us face. We must start with us if we want to
  improve these problems and in the end, come up
  with a solution.