Natural Disasters

I feel it is very important for our young students to be scientifically literate and compassionate. I am an advisor for a club at my school called the Junior Beta Club. Our club has gotten together to raise and collect money to send to Japan for the families that have been devastated by the earthquake and tsunami. What makes this fundraiser so special to me is that it was the children's idea to raise the money to send to Japan. The Junior Beta Club members have asked the other students in the school not to buy ice cream or cookies, but to instead, give that money for the families in Japan. Some students have given up their cookies or ice cream while others have not, but it is a start in our endeavour.