Robidoux

8^TH graders at Robidoux Middle School in St. Joseph, Missouri, wanted to come up with an idea that could benefit both their school spirit and the community in Northside by putting together a spirit store called “The Badger Den” inside the school (RMS).The Northend is a poverty-stricken area. The students hope that this store will help other students and impoverished families to support their children’s academic and social lives at school.

“The Badger Den” will be open daily before and after school. The students also want to have the store open for Northside parade, Northside Pride week, and all of the other events scheduled for the Northend: Parent/Teachers Conference, Open House, Back to School Night, and MAP events.

The students’ goal is to improve the school’s climate and culture and make their building more inviting, welcoming, and open to their community stakeholders. The store will provide pre-packaged school supplies and spirit items for parents and students at a discounted rate. They want the supplies to be less expensive than Wal-Mart.

            While students were working on their project, they learned how to:

-         Clearly and accurately reflect and express ideas and experiences on their own

-         Demonstrate social skills and dispositions in both discussion and individual situations

-         Clearly and accurately reflect and express ideas and experiences from another person’s perspective

-         Determine complex multi-step cause-and-effect relationships

-         Prioritize information

-         Understand the importance of making decisions using consensus

-         Use multiple resources, tools, and sources for research

-         Organize, refine, and elaborate all of the actions from a brainstorm

-         Determine who is ultimately responsible for implementing each task/action

-         Speaking and writing standard English

-         and evaluating non-fiction work such as materials, newspaper, technical manuals, reports, etc

-         Gather, analyze and apply information

-         Communicate effectively

-         Recognize and solve problems

-         Compare and contrast various forms of representations of patterns

-         Model and solve problems, using multiple representations such as graphs, tables, expressions, and linear equations.

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