Redlands eAcademy Middle School
On January 18, 2022, students in grades 6th-8th began reading the novel, A Long Walk to Water. Students have been blogging on Padlet walls about environmental sustainability, sharing their experiences with water, and collaborating about how they can educate others about the global water crisis in their language arts classes.
In addition to reading the novel and completing language arts activities, students have been keeping track of their daily water usage, and are reviewing their data and findings. In science, they have been working on a water cycle project. In history, they have been taking a Google Earth Literature Trip of Salva and Nya’s journey and learning about people’s experiences in Southern Sudan during their civil war.
Upon finishing the book, students will complete a culminating project to educate our school community about the global water crisis. Students will have the option to present at our annual Knowledge Fair on March 17, 2022.
In conjunction with all of this learning, students started a Penny War on February 1st to raise funds to support school #4 in South Sudan. It is our goal that students meet H2O for Life’s mission; H2O for Life offers a service-learning opportunity designed to engage, educate and inspire youth to take action to solve the global water crisis by raising awareness and funds to support implementation of water, sanitation and hygiene education projects for global partner schools.
