PSA Final

I am currently working on a unit with my 8th grade students in Health that deals with how we treat our Earth. My focus for this video was to have students ask themselves what Earth do you want to inherit? What can we do to take care of it now? I think most of my students are aware of the problems we have but we do not "live" in reality enough for it to bother us. Most of us are so isolated in our own neighborhoods that we dismiss there are real issues happening in our world. We recently had a guest speaker come and talk about clean water. When our students are thirsty they can go to their kitchen and turn a knob a few degrees and drinkable water comes out and they are no longer thirsty. My students listened to missionaries that travel to third world countries where women walk up to 3 hours one way to the nearest water source which is usually a river where the animals use. My students learned that every 15 seconds a child dies in a third world country because they do not have clean water. This was eye opening to them. We have to teach our students about real current situations that they will one day have to face. We have to guide them to want to find answers, we have to facilitate the process in which they can find solutions to real life situations. Most importantly, we have to ignite a passion within our students hearts to want to learn and seek answers instead of spoon feeding them information just so they can answer questions on a paper and pencil test.