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How to get kids interested in being involved
June 1, 2009 - 03:41 PM

Hi,
I'm starting to put togethe a presentation for a couple of elementary schools. This is my first attempt to get children involved in helping their community. I'm looking for any tips people might have on getting them interested in helping. I'm afraid they will help, but only because their teachers make them. The ages range from 6 - 12.

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Re: How to get kids interested in being involved
June 1, 2009 - 06:16 PM

Since we know they are kids, then we should start teaching them those good things that they will inturn contribute meaningfully to first of all their families, communities, nations and the world at large and we should stop teaching them those bad things that are capable of causing instability.


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Re: How to get kids interested in being involved
June 6, 2009 - 09:57 AM

Motivating students at any age is tough. I do think adults' examples are very important for children. Maybe charitable groups should be invited into the schools to show presentations on local problems and what is being done about them. Grades 3-6 might be a little young to get involved in anything too heavy. I heard a good way to get elementary school kids interested in the environment is to have school gardens where the kids can stick their hands into the dirt and eventually harvest real vegetables. Something similar should be possible on a different topic. Decide what problems in your community can be realistically tackled by elementary students. This may be something like trash-pickups, neighborhood beautification (planting flowers, trees), fund raising for worthy causes. An interesting idea is I-earn.com which connects classrooms over the Internet, using simple projects like painting pictures of your community. There are some time zone limitations to that concept, but I think it is good to get students out of their comfort zone in Canada or the USA and have them talk to kids in war zones, Africa, etc.


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Re: How to get kids interested in being involved
June 29, 2009 - 10:53 PM

If you are going to teach them some meaning of life or some useful task, do the particular task repeated time by yourself and let them know what you are doing so that they cam emit and follow you. Please don't commit any unwanted behavior knowingly or unknowingly, thats it....
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