Give Back Campaign

Environmental sustainability Give Back Campaign

Our goal is to support student-teachers in learning more about eco-friendly alternatives and how to make them.
We want to educate students and student-teachers about sustainability and donate our income to non-profit organizations protecting the environment.

This give-back campaign contributes to my professional and personal learning as the research we did, and the planning of the give back campaign will help me plan and organize similar events. The resources I will have gathered with the lesson plan ideas for teaching students about sustainability and the knowledge of how to make different sustainable products will serve me as a source for my future teaching career.

We started with many different ideas as to what we could do for our give back campaign.

We decided on our first date to offer a session on candle making and created a list of things that needed to be done beforehand.

We decided to do it on April 23rd so that it could be used as a mother's day present and were planning to offer the course in the canteen-kitchen in the evening. We also decided we have to start promoting two weeks beforehand by hanging up posters and selling already made candles.
We wrote down all the jobs that still needed to be done.

For the second meeting ( w/ Julia, Jurgen, Kate, Alba, Francesca, Germ, Joep, Rhys, Sophie, Nadja, Connor) everyone came together at student stay.

People who were present at the first meeting showed others how to make the candles.

We thought about how many people would be able to join a session and decided on no more than six participants.
We also thought about how much everything will cost and if we would be able to make a profit at the end. We were still unsure which organization to donate to but wanted to choose a non-profit organization protecting the environment.
We also decided to teach the participants about other environmental products and create lesson plans for students to learn about sustainability.

Due to corona, we had our third meeting on zoom (w/ Kate, Alba, Rhys, Germ, Julia, Francesca, Nadja). We met up to see what we could put on our portfolio. We decided to postpone this give-back campaign to the next school year and then concentrate on Holidays like Christmas/Valentine/etc. We made sure we had enough evidence for the portfolio and Nadja took notes on the whole process up to this point.

Lending a socially distanced hand Give Back Campaign

I wrote a letter together with another student (with the help of some Dutch friends) that offers to do groceries for elderly people and those who might get infected easily. We put this letter up in stores and apartment buildings.
We know that especially these people need our support to minimize their contact with others.
Elderly people, people who have heart, lung or immune conditions are especially at risk for contracting the virus

We want to reach out to people who might feel alone in this situation and are depending on the support of others.

This give-back campaign has shown me how I can still help and make a difference as only one small student and help my neighbors and those less fortunate, in this case having a higher chance of getting infected and having nobody to lend them a hand. I want to teach my students to become active/ participatory citizens and to ask my students to do something like that, I need to lead by example.

School-CoV-Vienna

Give Back Campaign

I helped create a video, informing children about Covid-19 and introducing a new study to help prevent the spread of the virus.
The video briefly introduces the project "Schul-Cov-Wien" and motivates participation.
It explains what it means to participate and what to do.

This project encourages students to get tested for the virus by gurgling certain liquidity for one minute, let them spit it back out and get tested.
The goal is to offer it at schools and get the students tested twice within a 5-week timeframe.
It also presents additional messages about the virus, hygiene rules, and distance.
My father was one of the founders of this study and reached out to me as I have experience working with children.

My main job was to make sure that the information presented and the design is child-appropriate.
I also got in contact with a professor regarding the storyline and attended zoom calls with 6 doctors and professors.
I recorded a song that will make the gurgling more fun for the children and will help them keep track of the time.
I created the logo for the study and the certificate of the study.
I created short videos with moving Illustrations to help visualize some of the text.

This give-back campaign has a clear connection to my professional learning and competency. I help students understand what is going on during this confusing time with Covid-19 and help them to not feel helpless but give the students the means to help reduce the spread of corona so that they can get their normal routine back faster.