Community Project Virtual Showcase
Silver Spring International Middle School
Middle Years Programme
8th Grade Community Project
Karina Ford and Kayla Kaunan
Coach: Mr. Williams
Our Topic
This quarantine has undoubtedly been tough on everyone. The inability to go places and socialize normally seems to be taking its toll, as well as the virus itself. However, there may be some beneficial parts to this quarantine, and that is the natural environment. Since people are going out less, there is less pollution going on. So we figured, to keep this going even when things get back to normal, we can teach people the proper way to dispose of waste and trash.
Guiding Question
Criterion A (i): define a highly challenging goal to address a need within a community, based on personal interests
Guiding Question:
How can I create a positive impact for people living in Montgomery County by making a presentation on how to recycle more efficiently.
Our project connects to the Global Context globalization and sustainability because we are teaching people how to recycle efficiently so that there will be less pollution.
Criterion A- Evidence
Criterion A (i): define a highly challenging goal to address a need within a community, based on personal interests
Proposal for Action
Criterion B (i): develop a proposal for action to serve the need in the community
Criterion B : Evidence
Criterion B (ii): plan and record the development process of the project
Criterion B (iii): demonstrate self-management skills
Communication & Social Skills
Criterion C (iii) demonstrate communication and social skills
Questions for students who were in a group
We exchanged our personal contact information as well as school email when we needed to contact our coach as well.
Since our community project meetings were on Wednesdays and many Wednesdays were used as school days, we didn’t get to meet with our coach very often but we still managed to pull through with the project.
We usually met with our coach on Wednesdays weekly but sometimes one of us would email him if we had a question on the project.
Taking Action!
criterion C (i) demonstrate service as action as a result of the project
This is one of many ways people can recycle more efficiently and reduce waste.
Thinking Skills
Criterion C (ii) demonstrate thinking skills
criterion D (i) evaluate the quality of the service as action against the proposal
Questions to Answer
When Kayla found evidence that air pollution levels had gone down in certain areas we evaluated that to determine the cause. The cause of this was people not going out as much because of quarantine.
Yes, we made a presentation focusing on how to recycle more efficiently.
Reflection
Criterion D (ii): reflect on how completing the project has extended their knowledge and understanding of service learning
Questions to Answer
People can make a good difference for the environment if they put in effort.
The community service project is not only good for addressing issues found in the community, but engaging students in finding solutions to these issues. It lets us help our community, while also getting us involved with a productive and educational activity.
Obviously, we were not able to get the full experience due to the coronavirus, however, my partner and I feel like this project was a good way to engage us while also allowing us to help our community at the same time.
Approaches to Learning Skills Reflection
Criterion D (iii): reflect on their development of ATL skills
Questions to Answer
We’ve both gotten better at managing our time to complete a big project and become more self reliant.
Through this project i have developed my thinking skills by evaluating articles and magazines looking for the information I needed.
By participating in this project I have learned to work as a team with my partner. We communicated a lot during this project which is something I’ve never done before.
Our guiding question changed a few times because after reflecting on it, we decided certain parts of it weren’t realistic.