Students in Grade 4 had several ideas for their service learning project but it quickly became apparent that their biggest area of interest was addiction - particularly addiction to video games along with concerns about smoking. In many classes there is a close vote when we decide on a project, but this was a time where the decision was close to unanimous. We further decided to focus on gaming for the whole school and smoking and vaping for the upper grades. Please see more pictures in Vidigami: https://www.vidigami.com/trinityschool/albums/231178/media The class learned about what addiction means in your brain and that gaming addiction is now recognized, although it is rare. We talked about what is positive about games and when you might be playing too much and it becomes a problem. Students created a chapel presentation including posters, comic, video, and keynote highlighting items such as: - Gaming being a problem if you argue with your parents when they tell you to stop or you regularly keep playing past your time limit - Gaming being a problem if your games are making you really angry when you lose or you are thinking about playing all the time - All the fun things you can do instead of playing video games, especially with your friends - How YOU should be the one to balance your time, making choices to do other activities or playing for a time and then devoting the same time to something else Another group of students presented about smoking and vaping to Grades 3-5. The main thing they already knew is that smoking damages your lungs and turns them black. We learned that vaping doesn't do this, but it is still very harmful because it has even more nicotine than cigarettes which one of the students, Daphne, described in her presentation as "poison for your brain." Another student, Jerremy depicted addiction as "your body will nag you until you get it and you will feel like you need it like water." We discovered that nicotine impairs brain development and is especially harmful for kids and teens, even though it is marketed in fun flavors. "This is false advertising!" Zain declared in his keynote about companies claiming that vaping isn't harmful because it doesn't have tar and tobacco.
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