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By JAKE MUONIO
The results of one classroom’s efforts at the John Cooper School following the school’s book fair are being felt around the world.
Lunn Morrison’s fourth-grade class donated about $1,500 from their class project to Pratham, an India-based nonprofit that helps educate the nation’s poor people, and another $450 to the rainforest-preservation group, World Land Trust.
The class’ project combined an economy lesson with the school’s book fair theme: India. Students researched products that a person might typically find in an Indian market and selected a few to manufacture.
They then created prototypes, secured a $1,000 “loan” from the school principal and then set to work mass producing their goods. Following the Indian theme, the students took advantage of a 30-minute time slot for the two weeks leading up to the book fair to make their products, including lotus flower hats, baseball hats with the Indian flag on it, replicas of the Taj Mahal and Bengal tiger pillows.
The students sold about $3,000 worth of the products to other students and their families.
“Our children are so privileged that they’re aware they need to help other people,” Morrison said. “It’s very thoughtful of them, especially in the world today, to think of others, and the children also have a cooperative spirit. They want to give back to the community, whether it be locally, or in Mumbai.”
Following the conclusion of the book fair, the students realized they made more pillows than they needed to, and spent a few weeks looking at the 200 extras that were piled in the classroom.
Finally one of the students, Shaan Davis, suggested donating the pillows to an organization associated with his father’s workplace, Houston Northwest Medical Center. So the extra pillows, along with books the students brought in, were donated to the L’Amor Village Emergency Shelter in Spring.
The shelter, which is managed by Texas Child Protective Services, houses about 40 children.
Lunn Morrison’s fourth-grade class donated about $1,500 from their class project to Pratham, an India-based nonprofit that helps educate the nation’s poor people, and another $450 to the rainforest-preservation group, World Land Trust.
The class’ project combined an economy lesson with the school’s book fair theme: India. Students researched products that a person might typically find in an Indian market and selected a few to manufacture.
They then created prototypes, secured a $1,000 “loan” from the school principal and then set to work mass producing their goods. Following the Indian theme, the students took advantage of a 30-minute time slot for the two weeks leading up to the book fair to make their products, including lotus flower hats, baseball hats with the Indian flag on it, replicas of the Taj Mahal and Bengal tiger pillows.
The students sold about $3,000 worth of the products to other students and their families.
“Our children are so privileged that they’re aware they need to help other people,” Morrison said. “It’s very thoughtful of them, especially in the world today, to think of others, and the children also have a cooperative spirit. They want to give back to the community, whether it be locally, or in Mumbai.”
Following the conclusion of the book fair, the students realized they made more pillows than they needed to, and spent a few weeks looking at the 200 extras that were piled in the classroom.
Finally one of the students, Shaan Davis, suggested donating the pillows to an organization associated with his father’s workplace, Houston Northwest Medical Center. So the extra pillows, along with books the students brought in, were donated to the L’Amor Village Emergency Shelter in Spring.
The shelter, which is managed by Texas Child Protective Services, houses about 40 children.
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