Encouraging our students to watch the news and stay current on events that are happening around the globe is one way to get students involved. If students are learning about natural disasters that happening around our world they can not only learn more about Earth science behind the disasters, but they can aslo plan ways they can help. Students can organize drives to raise money or gather necessities to send to communities in need after a natural disaster. I was student teaching when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, and the students at the school that I was working in raised hundreds of dollars by collecting pennies for the victims. Students can learn important lessons from these events. They can see that much more can be accomplished if everyone works together to help.
