- We had a visitor named Michelle from CAWST. She gave us a story with a problem to solve and we had to design a solution using play dough, popsicle sticks and pipe cleaners. After in language arts, we looked at a girl's life in Zambia and we learned that a lot of people don't have clean water and that they must use bio-sand filters to get rid of viruses, bacteria and tape worms that could be in the water. We compared how much water an average Canadian uses (327 L) in a day to someone in Zambia (20L). It would take 85.5 hours for one of our classmates to gather water for their family of 5, if one round trip to get 10L took 30 min. It would take the family in Zambia 5 hours. Many children and women travel farther, sometimes as far as one kilometer.
- In math, we continued to work on our array art.
- This afternoon, we started Tunisia by mapping where it is and its cities. It's capital city is Tunis.
- Today in gym we played three games: one called hot dog tag, another called ladder race and lastly crows and cranes.
- Ms. Lim helped us pass our white, yellow and orange belts for our recorders.
What questions do we have after today?
- What games will we be playing in gym tomorrow?
- In the future, will more people be using a bio-sand filter to clean their water?
- How will CAWST spread its knowledge to the rest of the world?
- How many people have a tippy tap to wash their hands in Zambia?
- What percentage of people in the world use a bio-sand filter right now?
- Will everyone finish their recorder belts/ unit?
- Will we find an answer to get rid of pathogens in all the world's drinking water supply?
- How many countries use a bio-sand filter?
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