Parents getting involved...

The teacher and children have started an activity on natural disasters and this week we are building instruments to monitor disasters (earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes). I proposed to build a seismographer, an anemometer and a pluviometer.

Today we started by talking about what they have done the two weeks I was not in Costa Rica. They have done some research on natural disasters and created Microworlds project about it and about prevention. They started to work on the instruments and brought some materials to the school today. We started to work on the seismographer. They are really interested in that disaster. The grandfather of some of the kids came today to help. He built the instrument with some of the children, but we still have to put sensors and motors to make it work automatically. Some other children were building projects about how they think earthquakes happen, how movement propagates, etc. We will continue tomorrow with this project and the anemometer.

I learned today that some of the parents have started to learn MM. I saw few projects they have built. It is interesting to see in few weeks how they started to be less intimidated by the computer. The funniest part is that one mom did it first and other parents follow... they did not want to stay behind. The mom who started have had a computer for a while, but only now got interested in learning.