This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
My Students
My students are becoming excellent artists that understand the basics of drawing. Now I want to make them apply their drawing skills to the topic of Financial Literacy. The goal is to teach financial literacy concepts and principles through tracing and drawing storyboards about people using money.
My students are bright and creative young people attending a math and science elementary school.
99% of my students come from families that are considered low-income earners. My students are eager to learn through collaborative art-based projects. My students are great and are ready to take on new challenges. They have learned so much since I started teaching them three years ago. Now its time to build on their creativity with rigorous drawing projects.
This project will enable students to learn in engaging or hands-on ways about how to draw images of people using money. This project will place an importance on financial literacy issues in the contemporary art setting. In addition to teaching students about financial literacy through art, the students will learn about saving & investing, career exploration, planning & money management, as well as lessons focused on environmental sustainability.
My Project
My students need light boards to complete a series of comic books . With these materials, my students will be exploring a how to use images to build community by collaborating with other students. We will be learning how to trace out materials and re-use them to make comic books about financial literacy or other money topics.
I am trying to get student to return to the innovative way of drawing images by using light boxes and images of people using money. They students will practice writing narrative and informative pieces that they will then place in the comic book as thought bubbles. This will allow students to work on multiple concepts in financial literacy while making art.
This project will improve my classroom because the art budget was cut and my school lost 4 teachers due to changes in the way the district funds our school.
My principal understands the importance and is funding my position with discretionary school funds. This has left us with a non-existent art budget, which is why I am seeking donations. Please help my students become creative financial thinkers by funding this project.
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