As I have mentioned in one of the previous posts, Karina, Polina, Apolina and I have organized the money-collecting challenge in our school. After the challenge has been open for a week, we have counted all the coins that we managed to collect in order to be able to announce the winner (the Year 11s ended up becoming the winning class).
The task of counting the coins ended up being much harder than I expected, because we managed to collect much more funds than we expected. At first, I couldn't believe how much we actually managed to collect in just one week - after converting all the money into rubles, it added up to around 35,000. The first thing we had to do was to separate all the coins into different currencies. As it turned out, there were all kinds of different currencies in the jars - from pounds and dollars to shekels and euros. Then, we began separating the Russian coins into different values - 1, 5, 10, 50 kopeks, 1, 2, 5 and 10 rubles, counting everything, putting them into separate plastic bags, labeling the quantity of coins in every one of them, so that in the future it would be easier for us to explain it to the bank when we went to exchange it to paper money.
Overall, the task ended up being much harder than expected and we had to spend a lot of time and effort on this challenge, but the end result was really worth it! After numerous discussions, we decided to separate the collected money and spend the money on different charity organizations - a part of the whole sum was allocated to the dog shelter, a part of it was to be given to the "Homeless" people charity while a part of it would be donated to the local children's hospital.
The following learning outcomes were met:
- Undertaken new challenges
- Planned and initiated activities
- Worked collaboratively with others
- Shown perseverance and commitment to the activity
- Engaged in issues of global importance
- Considered ethical implications of our actions
The task of counting the coins ended up being much harder than I expected, because we managed to collect much more funds than we expected. At first, I couldn't believe how much we actually managed to collect in just one week - after converting all the money into rubles, it added up to around 35,000. The first thing we had to do was to separate all the coins into different currencies. As it turned out, there were all kinds of different currencies in the jars - from pounds and dollars to shekels and euros. Then, we began separating the Russian coins into different values - 1, 5, 10, 50 kopeks, 1, 2, 5 and 10 rubles, counting everything, putting them into separate plastic bags, labeling the quantity of coins in every one of them, so that in the future it would be easier for us to explain it to the bank when we went to exchange it to paper money. Overall, the task ended up being much harder than expected and we had to spend a lot of time and effort on this challenge, but the end result was really worth it! After numerous discussions, we decided to separate the collected money and spend the money on different charity organizations - a part of the whole sum was allocated to the dog shelter, a part of it was to be given to the "Homeless" people charity while a part of it would be donated to the local children's hospital.
The following learning outcomes were met:
- Undertaken new challenges
- Planned and initiated activities
- Worked collaboratively with others
- Shown perseverance and commitment to the activity
- Engaged in issues of global importance
- Considered ethical implications of our actions
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