By Marina | Project Coordinator
Dear donors,
Greetings from Iracambi and we hope you are all staying safe?
This week we wanted to give you a sneek peak at the science curriculum material we’ve been sharing with our local schoolchildren who are all still in lockdown.
Here’s a translation of one of our lessons - about the water cycle. We invited the kids to color in the illustrations and share the story with their parents, so that they could learn together.
Once upon a time there was a little drop of water who lived inside a cloud which was drifting above a forest at Iracambi. And this is his story.
“My life began in the ocean, where I was just a drop of water among an immensity of salty water. When the temperature rose, I started to lose some of the salt, and I became more transparent and felt lighter. And I was transformed into vapor and started floating into the sky. I flew for miles and miles and I learned that the areas of land in the ocean are called continents and that’s where humans live. Some of them are covered with white stuff called snow which I learned is when water vapor freezes solid.
And then the wind blew me onto a cloud, and the cloud grew more and more heavy and more and more dark, and I began to transform into liquid and started falling towards the earth as a drop of rain. And I fell onto the crown of a tall tree and I ran down its trunk and into the earth, down and down until I hit a body of water, called an aquifer.
And as more and more raindrops joined me, together we began to bubble up through the earth and become a spring. And we kept running into a larger body of moving water called a river. And since the river was running through Iracambi and it was a hot day, I began to become transparent and lighter and I rose up through the air and moved back into a cloud. And as I looked down, I saw a class of children at Iracambi, learning about the forest and learning about the water cycle.
In our next letter we’ll share some of the reactions of the kids to this lesson. They loved it!
In the meantime, stay safe, and thank you, thank you, for supporting us as we support the Eco Leaders who will become the future guardians of the planet!
With love from Marina and the Iracambi team
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