Holy Ghost #HogsAbroad in Belize

My second priority after computer training was helping the teaching team in the different schools. The only school I ever taught in while I was in Dangriga was Holy Ghost. Holy Ghost was similar to an Elementary school and I helped in the standard 5 and 6 classrooms. The kids were probably all around the ages 10-12.

One of the days our lesson plan was for the kids to get in small groups and come up with a product to sell. We brought supplies for the kids to design a product and made each item cost a certain amount of money. After they designed their product they had to add up the supplies used in their product to find their production cost. Each group had to act out a commercial to the class and come up with a selling price.

At the end of the lesson the class voted on their favorite product and we explained to the class that the number of votes counted for the number of times they sold their product. The teams had to subtract their production cost from their total revenue to come up with their profit.

All the kids really seemed to enjoy the activity and participated actively. My group created a “feather hat” and even let me keep it.


-Julie

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