Clean Water Connection:

Rochester, NY to Gonaives, Haiti

Sandra Jacques

THEY ARE THERE,

Gonaives, Haiti

WE ARE HERE,

Rochester, NY

Objective (grades 6-8): 1, To have students develop a sense of cultural competency and appreciation regarding of issues of water insecurity2. Students would work together to understand how filtration works and complete water quality testing both initially and at the end of the project3. Students would work on designing and producing an effective water filtration system with a minimal amount of materials for the least cost

We will use Skype as a educational resource in the

classroom

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Haiti is a beautiful country filled with proud, hardworking people. However, it is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Many, many Haitians struggle just to get simple basic necessities, clean water being chief among them.Haiti, like other poor countries, is riddled with water projects that, after installment, breakdown or are inadequately maintained. Our goal is to transfer knowledge to people in Gonaives, Haiti (KID TO KID) regarding how to make an inexpensive, self sustain a

water filtration system that removes impurities that sicken thousands of Haitian children and adults every year.

Students will take fresh water samples from Lake Ontario. • Complete initial water quality assessments• Using a variety of low cost material (sand,

gravel, plastic containers, charcoal, fabric) make a bio filter

• Students will assess water quality of the resulting effluent.

• Students will generate a video and a website detailing the advantages of their research about filtration and their approach in designing their system

• Students will participate will webinar via

Skype, connecting with people living in a village on the outskirts of Gonaives Haiti (with the assistance of Mr. Jean Robert Jacques, long time resident and my father)

• Students will participate in a Global Skype Summit on Watershed and Water Conservation, Feb. 2013

https://education.skype.com/projects/3617-planning-a-watershed-and-water-conservation-global-skype-summit-and-need-you

My Dad, Jean Robert, on Skype while in Haiti

Kids doing Water quality

testing on site

Skype along with other linking websites

like Global SchoolNet's

http://www.glbalschoolnet.org/

offers many opportunities for

learning. Kids can see and interact with

people across the nation and through

the world

Potential collaborators and funding resources: The Clorox Company, Vernier Software & Technology, LLC., NSF- STEM, The Farish

Foundation, NIH, Wegmans Siemens Foundation and more…

Teaching kids in each discipline

that we are all the

same is important! GO GLOBAL!