Habitat for KG

Flooded in Bangladesh
a photo from Proma and Bisma's presentation

Our new unit of inquiry.

Organizing Theme: Where We Are In Place and Time
Central Idea: Shelters depend on where people live.
An Inquiry Into:

• How weather affects the types of shelters people build
• Local building materials and their properties
• How local people have found ways to make materials around them into shelters

In light of our new unit, I tried to think of ways to get experts into our classroom to initiate interest. I decided to recruit secondary students who devoted their time to Habitat for Humanity to share their insight and experience. It seemed like an ideal way to seamlessly blend the secondary and primary schools into one smooth community.

Six students volunteered to help, and we decided that they would work in pairs for three presentations.

This week, the KG students greatly anticipated the two expert guests. Bisma and Proma, the secondary students, worked hard to create an interactive computer game that guided the students through the beginning steps of building a house. They also explained Habitat for Humanity and why they helped build houses for people. The KG students were able to do some teaching themselves, as they explained the building materials that they had in their classroom.