Research and project procedures

Inform parents and get consent from them to take written notes from conversations and share drawings with the world project team,
Make an inquiry-based project with the children in each kindergarten, framework should contain more or less of these components: artistic/natural science/ social-political Science/humanistic/health Sustainability approach/equity approach,
Take notes from conversations with children, note children’s curiosity, teachers’ questions, and observe how the exploration is developing,

Write a description about the kindergarten and the water source you found,
Take three descriptive photos of the landscape with the water source(s) at least one nearby and one long distance (without persons),
Draw the landscape where you found the water resources, this could be done by children individually or as a group project, perspective of children’s own choice, both surrealistic, attempted, imaginative and real live representations will be welcomed,
Collect all the drawings – this will involve collection of variety of perspectives as mentioned above,
Collect relevant, meaningful, or expressive quotes from conversations and dialogues. This will include quotes from both children’s and teachers’ utterances,
Include short description of procedures and preliminary background data such as numbers of girls, boys, age, and any other relevant information,
Language accepted: English (preferably), Chinese, Swahili, Scandinavian languages, French or Spanish,
Use the Summary Report Structure, starting with a short summary (See Attachment),
Send Summary Report to world project leaders Aihua Hu and Laurent, not later than March 30, 2023.

Modified 12.03.24