{"id":47978,"date":"2024-12-13T20:14:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T19:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2024\/12\/13\/cross-generational-engagement-10th-grade-girls-lead-an-upcycling-club-for-4th-grade-elementary-students\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T18:13:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:13:01","slug":"cross-generational-engagement-10th-grade-girls-lead-an-upcycling-club-for-4th-grade-elementary-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2024\/12\/13\/cross-generational-engagement-10th-grade-girls-lead-an-upcycling-club-for-4th-grade-elementary-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Generational Engagement: 10th-Grade Girls Lead an Upcycling Club for 4th-Grade Elementary Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

A great example of intergenerational activities on the Steinm\u00fchlen campus is the upcycling club run by three 10th-grade girls for 4th-grade elementary school students. Lisa Maria Schreier, Emilia Berger, and Ziya Qu lead the club as part of their project-based learning. \u201cOur goal is to further promote the children\u2019s environmental awareness in a playful and artistic way from a young age. In this club, we teach the girls and boys that not all trash is the same. We want to inspire the children to turn old items into new, useful things or to create something that brightens up their everyday lives,\u201d says Lisa Maria Schreier. <\/p>\n

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“A New Life” for Materials and Objects<\/strong><\/p>\n

The plan is working out impressively well. The elementary school students are turning old canning jars into beautiful containers for spices and other items. Used clothes that have become too small can be turned into pencil cases\u2014and these are just a few examples of how objects are given a \u201cnew life\u201d and materials are often put to new uses. <\/p>\n

The club began in the second quarter of the first semester. It is optional and relies on regular participants. Tenth-grade girls and elementary school students meet every Thursday from 2:45 p.m. to 3:25 p.m. in an elementary school classroom. It\u2019s still possible to join later, but only after consulting with the organizers. <\/p>\n

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Selection of the Best Project<\/strong><\/p>\n

The teachers in charge, Dr. Rainer Nietzke and Heike Rabben-Martin, are standing behind the tenth-grade girls. Since they were unable to supervise the elementary school students, Lorraine Herrmann, the assistant principal of the Steinm\u00fchle Bilingual Elementary School, is handling that task. She observed: \u201cI\u2019m not really needed here. The tenth-grade girls work with the children like pros.\u201d <\/p>\n

To further boost enthusiasm and motivation for the work, at the end of each club meeting, a vote is held to determine which project was the most successful. When the choice falls on one\u2019s own pencil case or the card index box one created, the joy is, of course, especially great. <\/p>\n

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A great example of intergenerational activities on the Steinm\u00fchlen campus is the upcycling club run by three 10th-grade girls for 4th-grade elementary school students. Lisa Maria Schreier, Emilia Berger, and Ziya Qu lead the club as part of their project-based learning. \u201cOur goal is to further promote the children\u2019s environmental awareness in a playful and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":47981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,96,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bilingual-elementary-school","category-ecology-and-sustainability","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50426,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47978\/revisions\/50426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}