COLLABORATING ON GLOBAL ISSUES
The Year 4 Level Up Village experience is now in its third year. This programme is a digital pen-pal and project-based collaboration experience. It provides students an insight into issues relating to water usage and needs between differing countries as part of the Global Scientist Programme. The students are connected with three schools – two in the Ukraine and one in Nashville, Tennessee. Our girls are paired up with age-appropriate students, and communicate about their local experiences within a safe digital domain. The girls have to navigate the complexities and foibles of time zones, winter school breaks and even a government coup. They learn about the water needs of another country and culture. They share joint experiments, build aquifers and water filters, and film the progress of their experiments. They exchange videos with their pen-pal buddies and develop empathy when learning about schools and individuals with less access to technologies than us. Tony Doyle Junior School STEM Teacher
autumn 2020
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