action+examples

__Taking action in schools __

These are the examples of action that participants said are taking place within their schools (ideas have not been edited):


 * A diabetic student in year 5 made a house model from his syringes to ask children to donate to research into child diabetes
 * A prep child educated parents to put in fresh fruit for morning snack
 * A year 3 student wrote a letter to the principal initiating paper recycling in the school
 * Students have formed a group to raise money for natural disasters
 * A prep student suggested to his dad that he make an essential agreement for work
 * Students suggested not eating outside to reduce the litter problem
 * ‘walking Wednesday’ was a whole-school initiative
 * “shoe boxes of love” – donating items to other countries
 * water saving posters
 * to save water, students put buckets under taps to collect drips
 * made energy saving signs to put on computers and under lights
 * bring books from home
 * canteen – refine/revisit menu
 * sponsor an animal (endangered) or World Vision child
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">planting trees/creating gardens/vegetable patch
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">recycling plans – workshop to help cleaners do it better – use recycling centre appropriately
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">made books/posters on safety assistance houses, ways to keep ourselves safe
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">exhibitions on poverty
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">fundraising to support projects
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">making material donations – books. Clothes, games
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">one child made a rock pool and desert to compare how the animals in it survive over the month
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">SCAMPERing visualization activity à <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> the child then went home and made his vision
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Assisted a school in Queensland following the hurricane, sending books, pencils, supplies and uniforms to them
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">“Walk for Water” walkathon
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">children saving water at home following a unit at school on rivers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">child put timers in showers; one child used laundry wash water in the garden
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">a child set up gardends at school
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">child built bird box for local bird life
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">food parcels at Christmas
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Target Christmas tree
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Collection of batteries for recycling
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Enterprise Education – Students run canteen, participate in food handling course decide what to sell, handle money to spread profits, gave to Indonesian food handling project (year 5 & 6)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Eid Festival: Action decided up on by Grade 5 and Grade 1 students. They worked together to devise the activities, food stalls and events and carry it through as a whole day school event
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Endangered Species unit (Year 5) Raise awareness and money for an endangered species they have studied; set up stalls at recess and lunchtime; gave presentations at assemblies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Japanese Notebook – students told teacher not to order Japanese notebooks every year because it was wasting lots of trees
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">In school library – students count and display uncollected work sent to the photocopier
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Energy and water audits
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Teams of children sent to work with Janitor who comes to the assembly to give awards. As a result the amount of rubbish has decreased noticeably
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">No bells – teachers are punctual and therefore children learn to watch
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Children wrote and then sold books to raise money for a school in Africa
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Produce from gardens given to home economic centre and/or sold at tuck shop
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Family wall for the whole school – photo, family motto, family members, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">TEAR (Christmas gifts)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Weed Warriors (sustainability)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Global Take Action Team
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Make Poverty History
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Supporting Red Cross
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Visiting local nursing homes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Making Diya (lamp) to give as gifts to orphans
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Cleaning Day
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Greeting cards sent to nursing homes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Sustainable schools program (‘Power Rangers’ – children turn off lights at recess and lunch etc.)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Gold coin donations for various charities
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Children initiating their own PowerPoint presentation to share knowledge/learning
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Making Big Books (shared among families)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Creating awareness posters
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Visits to aged-care facilities
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Letters to the newspaper, media, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">‘Nude-food’ (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Composts, food garden
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Ice cream containers under the taps, water used to feed plants
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Children initiating fundraiser outside of school
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Each class donating small change to sponsor children around the world
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Sponsorship of local ‘Adopt a Dolphin’
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Shoe-box drives, pencil donations, shoes, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Penpals with sister school; sharing the diversity of their lives (Indonesia)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Winter sleepout
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Recycling corks, aluminium, stamps, phones
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Giving tree (groceries)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Projects to disadvantaged communities
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Community concerts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Sustainability program
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Environmental groups (waste, biodiversity, water, energy)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Eco-Angels
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Partnership with indigenous communities
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">“Coats Off Your Back” charity appeal
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Starlight Children’s Foundation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">National Reconciliation Day
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Clean up Australia Day
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Cultural diversity week
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">National Tree planting week
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Books for refugees
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Fundraising for Green peace
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Wells in Africa
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Schools-to-schools program
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Social Justice committee
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Safety committee

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">A shared knowledge product – Melbourne; June 16, 2007