Digital Portraits for Orphans in Four Different Countries
My students need an Ipad and to work with The Memory Project.
$1,012 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
A typical day in our city and in the US is what these students know and is familiar to them. But give them a map, the Internet, or an iPad, and their minds open up. My students are learning stories and the personal struggles of orphans from other countries. They are no longer isolated.
My 150 students are Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Graders, who walk through the classroom door each day talking to their friends and then settle down for 50 minutes of creating.
The area is a high poverty area and most students don't travel even to the neighboring big city. Their world is the city they live in, the school they go to, their family and friends. The school is the center of the city and the center of their lives for learning any new experiences.
The experience to think like an artist, be self disciplined, creative, make decisions, deal with set backs, and think how you can fix those set backs are skills in common core. My students are artists for maybe only this one time in their lives.
They are small Sixth Graders who are barely out of elementary school experiencing a room that is for art for the first time. They are unsure of themselves. Some of the students are growing. They are Seventh and tall Eighth Graders who are getting ready for high school and that new experience.
My Project
Students will draw portraits of orphans from Madagascar, Romania, Ethiopia, and Bolivia and give the portraits to them. They will learn something about the country and will now have a connection with children in those four countries by participating in The Memory Project.
With the iPad they will be able to look up information about the countries to draw in the background, they will be able to upload their finished artwork to their digital portfolio and they can actually create the portrait on the iPad with a drawing program. All together during the school year 350 students will participate in this project and learn about the countries.
A door will be opened and a gift of a portrait drawn will be given to someone his or her own age in another country.
We will see the pictures delivered to the orphans when the four videos are taken and the link sent to us. It is using art as a service-learning project to enrich another person's life in another country and enrich their lives also.
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