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RIVERTON ELEMENTARY SIXTH GRADERS SUCCESSFULLY PROPOSE WATER DISPENSERS FOR PORTABLE CLASSROOMS
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By Morgan Olsen | m.olsen@mycityjournals.com
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ne hot day in August, Will Howell was teaching his sixth graders in DRIVE BY PICK only the portable classroom at UP AVAILABLE Riverton Elementary when $ student after student continuously interrupted the les50 count box! or 3 son asking to go fill up their for water bottle. American Heritage School $ “I was thinking about 11100 S. Redwood Rd., S. Jordan how this is a problem and Saturday, June 10 • 9am -2pm how we need to do something about this,” Howell said. “I thought maybe we could do a presentation to the principal to try and get water dispensers of some sort out in the portable classrooms. It was a perfect fit for our narrative writing unit and the students were really excited about it.” The sixth graders set out to write a play, a song and prepare a PowerPoint presentation with graphs and data making their case for water dispensers to be installed in the portable classrooms. “I kept them on track as we wrote a play, cast students for different roles, painted posters for props and chose costumes for students to wear for the performance,” Howell said. “For the PowerPoint we had students do research on schools and water and similar issues in other schools. I also timed them on how long it took to go into the school, fill up their water bottle and come back
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Mr. Howell’s sixth grade class put on a play they wrote to advocate for water dispensers in portable classrooms. (William Howell/Riverton Elementary)
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