Water Warriors

It has been a little while since my last post and that is because I've been working on another blogging project. 

Earlier this year, I was selected to be a part of a STEM (formally known as SOLE) project within my school. We needed to select a real world problem that we could address together as a class. So my class and I decided to look into Water Safety and address the following driving question: 

'What causes drowning and how can we keep the community of Penrith safe around water?'

So far we have asked questions and have completed a significant amount of research. We've looked at the Royal Life Saving Drowning Report (which you can read HERE), googled and read news articles. This week students conducted a survey that was conducted across Years 3 to 6 to find out whether students have participated in swimming lessons and/or Swim School.

I am hoping that in the coming weeks, once we've completed our deep-diving research, that the students will break into smaller groups and have different focus projects. So far our interests seem to be around swimming lessons, CPR, the Nepean River and private swimming pools. However, as this project is student-directed, it could possibly go in any direction.

To read more about what my class is up to and what the other participating classes are doing, click on the following link: www.soleatrps.com

You can also read regular updates from my Twitter feed: @RachelSellen

Or follow the following Twitter hashtags #WaterWarriors | #STEMrps

In the coming weeks I will go into further detail about the STEM Rubric that my colleagues and I adapted for this project (pictured below). It has been an amazing tool thus far.