Proposal # 3 (Creativity)- Model United Nations

Activity:

- Model United Nations is structured after the real United Nations and thus is just a model for students to participate as a delegate of a nation to various UN Committees. Participants would need to research and plan out their political positions of their selected countries. The assembly would mostly consists of debating, formulating speeches, and voting.

-To be able to participate in the Model United Nations Assembly, I would need to prepare beforehand about my countries' stance of the topics given and would need to work with others in the committee. I would also need to build up my confidence to speak out in front of the crowd.

Learning Goals:

-My personal goals for this activity is to be able to build my confidence, to get to know political issues, and to learn how the United Nations work.

-I anticipate learning the procedures or the structures of the assembly and how we are able to make speeches. I am also looking forward to learn how to debate formally with other delegates.

-Through this activity, I would be able to cooperate with other people who I would meet for the first time, and be able to get an idea of how the real United Nations actually works.

-As a result of this activity, I would experience the formally set atmosphere of the conference and be engaged with issues of global importance.

Timeline:

Where- World Health Organization (WHO) in Manila
How often- Usually every Thursday, meetings are held in preparation for the real assembly on February
How long- about an hour for regular meetings and for the real assembly are for two days from 7:00am to 4:30pm  (February 22-23, 2014)

Supervisor:

Name: Ms. Lena Ranallo and Mr. Nicholas Schulte
Contact info: 09432330519 and 09166827432

Reflection #3 (creativity)- UN Day Red House Project

On October 25, 2013, it was UN day and our school held a house competition between the Red, Blue, and Yellow, to judge which house had the most efficient project for this year's theme: water conservation. For Red House, we planned to make a mini bottled plant that doesn't need a large amount of water to grow. This took just about an hour an a half to create five of this. The methods were simple but it just needed some time to make it.
The materials we used were:

• Five 1 liter bottles
• Plants
• Soil
• Pebbles/rocks
• Strings
• Glue gun
• Popsicle sticks
• Water
• Beans
• Scissors
• hole driller

We each tried to create one of this and I made one with a help of a friend. We first had to cut the upper part of the bottle which took some time because the plastic bottle was a bit thick to cut it out neatly. When it was fully cut out we placed it upside down pointing it downwards to the bottom of the bottle so that we can put the plant and soil into it. But before placing the plant and the soil we had to make a hole of the cap of the bottle to insert the string. Since the hole driller is a bit dangerous to use, the manong took the role of drilling out all the bottled caps. After inserting the string into the hole we then placed the soil and pebbles. We then placed some water in the bottom of the bottle. In order for this mini bottled plant to hang onto somewhere we had to drill three holes at the side of the bottle to place another long piece of string to tie it at the top. Since the string is not strong or stable enough to hold the soil and the plant, we placed three popsicle sticks at the side of the strings with a glue gun. After it dried out, we were able to hang it. Bean seeds were also placed into the soil if they wanted to grow beans. Other types of seeds may be placed like tomatoe seeds but since it may not be able to withstand the weight we only used beans.

After seeing the finished bottle I was satisfied with the appearance and also with the value of this project. Despite my hands going dirty, I enjoyed making it. We held second place for this project which I think is still a good stance. Through this activity, I got to remind myself again about water conservation. I think this activity not only alerted the people who listened to our speeches but also the people who actually made this.