This is a video!!!
DARE is a significant part of our 6th grade year. It helps students learn and practice how to stand up for themselves and others, as well as techniques for make good choices, which become life-long skills. Our DARE officer, Officer Erin Behm, makes a solid, positive connection with our students, and they always have so many questions to ask her!
Each year, she asks us to create a DARE box, so students can write down questions they think of during the week. On Friday morning, when she comes to our school, she reads and responds to those questions.
This year, as we brainstormed ideas for our DARE box, we decided to create a soda vending machine. It was an ambitious project that involved a merging of many ideas and creative processes. We invited “experts” to help us. The end result is a project that required negotiation, research, attention to detail, compromise, and teamwork. We are very proud of the result and decided to share the process with you in this video. This video was written, produced, and filmed by students in my homeroom class. Click on the picture to watch the video.
Awesome! I love seeing how they brainstormed, problem solved, got creative, and used trial and error to get to their finished product. Very cool! Thanks for the video so we can see it at home.