This year, multiple groups of students worked together to create projects that addressed social injustices and to spread more psitive messages about diversity.
Those projects include:
- Partnering with the Black and Missing Foundation and creat
ing a social media presence to raise awareness of the missing children of color in our community, and the lack of media coverage. - Organizing a food drive to create 30 snack bags for homeless families living at the Carpenter’s Shelter.
- Creating a Gender Stereotypes survey and using the results to educate our school community and spread more positive messages about identity and expression on our social media pages.
- Creating a database of the books in our school library that classrooms can use to learn more about religious, ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity within our community.
- Designing posters that spread a more positive message about appreciating diversity and to stop the use of the “N word” in our community.
- Decorating and distributing kindness rocks with positive affirming messages throughout our community.
Teacher: Arlette Yonkers
Students: Fourth-grade and fifth-grade students at Lyles-Crouch Traditional Academy
Driving Question: How can we raise awareness of the social inequities that create division in our community, and what can we do to educate and spread more positivity?
Standards of Learning:
- Research – multimedia resources, validity
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- Locate, organize, and analyze information from a variety of multimodal texts.
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- Oral Language – preparing and delivering planned presentations
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- Listen actively and speak using appropriate discussion rules.
- Contribute to group discussions across content areas.
- Orally summarize information expressing ideas clearly.
- Ask specific questions to gather ideas and opinions from others.
- Use evidence to support opinions and conclusions.
- Connect comments to the remarks of others.
- Use specific vocabulary to communicate ideas.
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- Demonstrate the ability to collaborate with diverse teams, while sharing responsibility for the work.
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- Work respectfully with others, and show value for individual contributions.
- The student will create and deliver multimodal, interactive
presentations.- Locate, organize, and analyze information from a variety of multimodal texts.
- Speak audibly with appropriate pacing.
- Use language and style appropriate to the audience, topic, and purpose.
- Make eye contact with the audience.
- Ask and answer questions to gather or clarify information presented orally.
- Reading – demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts
- Writing – variety of forms
The 5Cs:
Critical Thinking
- Connecting the past to the current problem
- Coming up with new ideas to solve a problem
- Finding useful information
- Trying to understand what they’ve learned and still need to know.
Collaboration
- Working with others in small groups
- Accepting different ideas
- Learning from others
- Making decisions together
- Taking responsibility for their own work and allowing others to be responsible for theirs
Communication
- Actively listening to others with an open mind
- Respectfully speaking to others
- Sharing information by speaking, writing, and mult-media applications
- Asking questions and sharing ideas
- Praising and motivating our peers
- Including the ideas and opinions of others into our project
Creative Thinking
- Creating new ideas from our strengths
- Making changes to improve our ideas
- Communicating our ideas to others
- Persevering through challenges
- Discovering ways to make ideas understood by others
Citizenship
- Recognizing our responsibility to promote safe, legal and ethical behavior
- Understanding what we can do as citizens to address an issue
- Conducting research that uses a wide range of sources
- Developing well supported solutions to an issue
- Taking action based off of research and collected information
