Timeline Registration - (Week one, Term 4) Monday 8 October to Monday 15 October, 2007

Classes and schools register to take part in the project which is open to all New Zealand primary school students.

Please email your registration to the project organiser with the following information:

* Class level...
* School name...
* Contact person name and email...

Registrations

Classes introduce themselves and share information about themselves, their schools and their area. Introductions will be put on this website. You can send your message of introduction as an email message to the: project organiser

• sanitation and health education in your own school
• investigate similarities and differences between their schools and schools in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
• the importance of clean water, and investigating how it is supplied to keep it clean
• what is needed to clean hands to prevent disease
• how waterborne diseases are passed from one person to another
• exactly what hand-cleaning is required to prevent disease
• whether all hand-cleaning methods require water
  
• what type of mechanism could dispense a small amount of water at a time to wash hands and not be contaminated by the user
• how would you persuade other students about the importance of cleanliness?

Look at some of the student hand washing solutions from last year's project, downloadable briefs, curriculum links and online resources to aid research.

Classes design prototypes of hand washing initiatives and accompanying health education with particular reference to their:

* effectiveness
* durability
* user-friendliness
* communication

Weeks 7 & 8, Monday November 19      

Participants put together a strategic plan for a solution to the hand-washing problem and associated health education and submit it to the project organiser who requires a copy of:

* the brief
* digital photograph of the prototype
* accompanying documentation
* health education material

Check here for more information about presenting your project.

These will be put on the project's web page. Students can email this information in Word, as a pdf file or html.

Once the briefs and prototypes are online, there will be an opportunity for classes to test other classes' solutions under their own school conditions, write a short report about how it was tested and a report of its effectiveness.

Week 9, Monday December 3

Solutions evaluated by members of the Oxfam Water for Survival Programme.

Week 10, Monday December 10

The most viable solutions will be announced and all participants will receive certificates for participation.