Adopt+A+Shelter+Activities

Adopt a Shelter Activities:
 * Use of Wiki Space as an anticipatory set to read and answer questions prior to launching project
 * Read "Tight Times" to Zysk Team 4th grade class
 * Made connections to pre-project discussion on Wiki to the story and then to the Adopt a Shelter project
 * Mrs. Cooper made a flyer to distribute to parents via eminders about donating a $1 during conferences and filling out a star to place on a graph
 * Students placed flyers around the school about $1 donations
 * Planning a teacher "Denim" day - Teachers will donate $ to wear jeans on November 30th. All proceeds will go toward the shelter
 * We read about homeless children
 * We wrote " I AM" poems about what is important to us to connect with what was important to the homeless children
 * We created a photostory using our 'I AM" poems
 * We have collected cans to give to the Shelter. Our goal is to collect 1000 cans
 * We made a graph to keep track of how many cans we collected each day
 * We made announcements to encourage students to bring in cans and to report amounts of cans
 * We measured the radius and circumference of many cans
 * We learned how to figure out how to get as close to Pi ( 3.14) as possible
 * We generated a list of things we could graph using the cans
 * We have an unofficial count of 1,011 cans for our can drive!
 * We sorted and recounted all of the cans collected
 * Each group was given a topic to find information on using the cans and eventually graph their findings. Topics include: colors, servings, companies, types of food, brands, grams of fat, calories
 * The official count for the cans is 1,117
 * The teachers had a 2nd denium day to raise the rest of the money for the shelter.