Hi there! I'm one of the 5 members in Group 5 and we created a workshop about water accessibility within Canadian Indigenous communities for a grade 7 class (Ms. Connell's class) at St.John's School. One of our activities included a class discussion of open-ended questions for the students to open up and be vulnerable themselves #UnleashValues. The final question of this activity was: How would you feel if you didn’t have access to safe and clean water? We took all the answers that the students had given us and made them into a word cloud to visualize their feelings. The larger words represent feelings that many students agreed with and the smaller words are feelings fewer students agreed with. Here is the generated word cloud with all the feelings the students thought they'd have if they didn't have access to safe and clean water:
Hi Helen, I think this is a great way to improve awareness about the clean water crisis! Talking about how us, as individuals, would feel without some of the privileges we take for granted can be a great way to raise awareness about the problem at hand! Something else you could have done to enhance this understanding is show them pictures of other grade 7's from other countries who are less fortunate and don't have access to clean drinking water. This would emphasize that other children just like them are feeling the emotions that were put in the word cloud, which can hopefully inspire the class to make a positive difference.
Hi Helen, thank you so much for launching the workshop on our little ones. I feel like this is a really meaningful thing to do in terms of educating our future generations about water scarcity. It came to my attention that "forgotten" being one of the larger words. Perhaps they thought other parts of the world have access to clean water except them? That is a fun activity tho!