Grade 5 Unit of Inquiry Site

Mr.T  //  For Unit Two,

We're inquiring into how unequal or irresponsible distribution or sharing of finite natural resources can lead to conflict, and how we can resolve and manage conflict.

We need to understand first of all how all resources and humans are all connected, what the different perspectives are about sharing, and how we can be responsible for one another.

Thanks for sharing your ideas, perspectives, and new understanding!

T

Oct 14 / 9:26pm

new unit

by Mr.T

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Feb 18 / 10:51pm

What would you fight for?

by Mr.T

Dear Inquirers,
 
Some students have begun to make connections between the use of child
soldiers now, and how children have helped or been used in conflicts at
other times, even centuries ago!
 
I was thinking about my personal perspective, and the questions I would
have as a person, or child, who had to fight. What reasons are good enough to have to fight as a soldier? How serious
would the problem be if I had to use a gun? Are there reasons that are
good enough for this? In countries where children are now used in combat,
not just as messengers or helpers in an army camp, what are the reasons
that children have that cause them to fight? Is there ever a choice? Would the reasons for children to fight and be part of any army hundreds
of years ago still be around today? Would a child fight now, for the same
reasons children fought centuries ago?
 
In thinking about this, I realized that modern NGO's might be trying to
save and help child soldiers (which is good!), but is there another, more
important problem out there in the world? A problem so big that we fight
about it, and even use children as soldiers? Is this the problem that
NGO's are trying to fix? Should they be trying to fix that one so that we
don't have the problem of child soldiers?
 
Good luck, thanks for reading,
Mr.T

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Feb 18 / 5:38pm

clean Water

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More than 70% of the world is covered with water, but poor people can
only have one bucket of water each day(2.6 gallons)! Bad water... Every day 14,000 people die because the water they use
contains dangerous chemicals or untreated sewage. It is sad that there are
14,000 people dying every day.....

 Melanie 5T

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Feb 18 / 5:15pm

Quistions please answer

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Q1: How can we help Child Soldiers?
 
Q2: Why are there child soldiers in Africa?
 
Q3: Why dose it hafe to be children?
 
Q4: Did something change by helping? What did?
 
Q5: How does the NGO help child soldiers?
 
Q6: Dose the children know how to fight before war? Why?
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Feb 18 / 3:01am

Clean water Qs

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Q1: why are people not getting clean water?
 
Q2: why aren`t the people helping the poor people to get clean water?
 
Ray
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Feb 17 / 4:56pm

Another website

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Here is another website....
 
Go to http://www.orphanages.ws and search "fact about Orphans " and then
click on christian worker Articles: The facts on Today's Orphan crisis
then you find a lot of information...
 
Thank you .
 
Jun Hyuk 5H
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Feb 17 / 5:15am

Questions, Please answer (( tag:Child Soldiers))

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Is it hard to help the children? Why?
 
How do the children want to be helped?
 
 
Alyssa Neo 5T

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Feb 17 / 5:11am
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1.What is the life of child soldier like?
 
2.When or how can they quit the child soldiers? Or do they have to be
child soldiers forever?
 
3.What kind of feeling do they have when they shoot people or their
families?
 
4.What are some other reason that they uses children for soldier?
 
Asuka Akagawa
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Feb 17 / 5:10am
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1.What is the life of child soldier like?
 
2.When or how can they quit the child soldiers? Or do they have to be
child soldiers forever?
 
3.What kind of feeling do they have when they shoot people or their
families?
 
4.What are some other reason that they uses children for soldier?
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Feb 17 / 4:49am

Child Soldiers

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Do the children need to go to war? If the answer is yes why?
 
Who choses if the children shuld go to war and be a soldier of not?
 
Can the children chouse?Why?
 
Are the grown ups nice to the children?Why?
 
Can the children run away from the group?Why?
 
How much food dose the children get each day?
 
Is it a helthey food?
 
Who gits more food, the grown up or the children?Why?
 
Do children get to rest? If yes how many seconds,minits, hours?
 
Do the grown up use girls for child soldiers?why?
 
 Whod the grown up kill the children if they do something bad or rests
when there not alawed?
 
Dose the goverment try to help the children?if the answer is no why?
 
How many children die from war?
 
How many guns and other stufe dose the chi;dren need to hold?Why?
 
What dose the grown up do to the children that didn't pass away after war?
 
Dose the children like the food?Why?
 
Why dose the grown up need to use children for a soldiers?
 
 
Alyssa .N 5T
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