Proceduremore
Set Induction:
Show videos of people taking the Ice Bucket Challenge, thousands of examples are available on youtube, consider searching for celebrities that your students may recognize and/or showing members of your community.
Consider showing this video, of students who followed this lesson:
Display question “What do we know about the Ice Bucket Challenge” and document responses.
Teacher should look for emergent themes to help them navigate follow up-discussions.
Lesson:
Explain to students that you’d like them to learn more about ALS and review what they know about Tzedakah, to prepare to learn more about the phenomenon before they decide if they’d like to take the challenge, themselves. Consider presenting this Prezi on the topic, edit it to meet your student’s needs, or create your own:
Distribute New York Times Article on the Phenomenon
Pose Questions from the New York Times Learning Blog, as appropriate:
Conclusion:
Review the lesson and students “take aways.” Discuss the challenge ways in which the class can become involved.
Discussion Questions may include:
- Do you want to take the challenge?
- How they can have the biggest impact?
- How they think they can motivate other people to take the challenge to make their impact even greater?
Ask each child to write a card, letter, or email, to be shared with whomever they’d like to challenge. Ask them to make sure that it includes:
- an explanation of Tzedakah
- an explanation of ALS
- an explanation of why the student is participating in the challenge
Take the challenge! With your students, plan the logistics of raising money, doing the challenge safely, creating a video and sharing it (with careful attention to student privacy).
Explore, Discover, and More Extension and Reinforcement Activitiesmore
THE NEXT GREAT CHALLENGE: Have students research various charities Individually, or in groups, in order to “nominate” a charity for which they would like to create a “Challenge” to raise awareness and funds for research. Involve family, friends, and community members in learning about these charities.
- Depending upon students abilities, have them share their findings with the class.
(You might include criteria such as: mission of the charity, how much of the funds received go into research and care, etc.)
- As a class, select the charity for THE NEXT GREAT CHALLENGE
- Follow the steps the class implemented for the ALS challenge.
Evidence of Learningmore
Review student’s card, letter or email to the person that they’d like to challenge to assess their understanding of the lesson’s content.