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People and Water-Action Project

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For our Water class at the GCE Lab School, we learned about water, water usage and the ways people use water for different household uses, like cooking, cleaning, drinking, and hygiene. We also talked about access to water and how not everyone has it easily available to them. To build empathy for people with limited access to water, we were assigned to find a way to carry water from the river to the school. We went to the river and filled buckets, coolers, and bottles of river water, and carried it to our school. This helped build empathy because some people have to walk miles to find water; they can't just turn on the tap for drinking water, and we mimicked that experience for our class. The next thing we did was study our own water usage for an Action Project, a poster about water and our personal water usage, along with the average U.S individual's and a chosen country's (I chose Japan). The purpose of the poster is to raise awareness about water and water usage in a ...

Algebra Action Project-Inverse Property of Addition

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For our freshman algebra class, we are working on an Action Project where we chose one of the properties of algebra. I chose the Inverse Property of Addition, which means that any number added to its opposite will equal zero. A negative version of the same number is the opposite of the positive version, and vice versa. For example, 5 + -5= 0 . Properties are rules/characteristics of numbers and math that help us understand concepts in math. For the artistic aspect of the Action Project, I chose to do simple images representing examples of the Inverse Property of Addition. I have two versions of a similar image that both represent an example of my property. In addition, I found another way to convey the definition of my property, and all of my work is shown here. These images relate to my chosen property because they both give a simple example of an equation that fits into the Inverse Property of Addition. A negative number added by the positive version of that same number will equal ...

Where I'm From-Action Project

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Hello, I am Lyd, and this is my blog for GCE lab school, which stands for Global Citizenship Experience.The school is a non-profit organization that's mission is to teach kids by giving them opportunities to interact with the real world and become a global citizen. For the orientation week, before school officially started, we studied the question: "Where are you from?", and were assigned an action project to convey where we were from as individuals and the properties associated with it. I choose to express where I am from with a slideshow of photographs and videos detailing the textures and senses that I associate with where I'm from. The clown image is from my slideshow, and it resembles a detail that reminds me of my home.