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.

For emerged issues which may require follow-up and clarifications, process and end evaluation will be conducted with teachers or any other relevant data source using interviews and/or surveys. The national OMEP executive committee in consultation with central research team will decide on which issues and how to conduct the process and end evaluation.