The aim of the workshops was to raise awareness about the importance of water conservation. The students rotated from a drama workshop, to a writing workshop and finally to an art workshop to explore this theme in depth.
The Science / Writing
Workshop
During this workshop, the students were presented
with gravel, sand, coffee filters and spit plastic bottles. They were to plan, design and build a water
filter to clean stale water in a bottle.
The students were not shown how to create the
filter, but had to think of a solution on their own. Then they tested their filter by pouring murky
water in it, which was expected to come out clean.
At the end of this inquiry-based activity, the
students wrote down a set of instructions explaining how they had created the water
filter.
The Drama Workshop
Ms.
Marvic Refalo, an EcoSkola representative, started with a brief explanation about water conservation in the
past. She then moved on to a slip-screen
activity, where students were grouped into four, and where each group was
presented with a situation e.g. having a bath.
Two of the students had to mime how that situation was executed in the
past, and the other two had to mime how it is carried out today. The rest of the class attempted to figure out
the situation as expressed through acting.
The Art Workshop
Mr. Anthony Vella, HOD Art and Design, initiated the workshop by explaining the importance of conserving water in
every way possible. Following this discussion,
the children were invited to express these ideas in drawings of their own.
