Encouraging Mask Wearing by Mask Making with Student Art!!
Help me give my students the oppurtunity to make their own face-mask from their drawings and keep students engaged in distance learning.
$542 goal
This project expired on March 23, 2021.
This project expired on March 23, 2021.
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.
Our Title I school serves free breakfast for 85% of the students, and they get to the school early to eat the breakfast that they don’t get at home. My students eat their breakfast at school each morning before they come to my class. Fuel in their bodies makes them ready to learn and start the day. We are a uniform school. Some kids have uniforms that fit and are clean, and others have uniforms that are too big, too small, and don't really look clean. The majority of kids are happy, energetic, and ready to learn, but some students have trouble staying awake and staying focused. They come every day from group homes, and some are homeless or being raised by grandparents.
My students are 11, 12, 13, and 14-year-old boys and girls who are growing, trying, creating, experiencing, experimenting, challenging, and ultimately becoming educated with art in my classroom.
My classes are all year long, so I can work with these students in-depth with technology, get to know their strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes, and see their creativity develop as their experience with art increases and grows.
My Project
With this project, students will each be designing a face mask to actually wear. They will do this project completely in distance learning, creating something useful with their art to keep them actively engaged in their art class by producing something they can use. I teach 6 art classes and I am trying to get funds so each student will have this opportunity to make a mask from their own drawings. The city this school is located in has the highest rate of infection in the county.
This project is about students learning about Covid 19, how it is spread, how to prevent it from spreading by wearing a mask, and the correct way to wear the mask to keep their family safe and the people they come into contact with.
They will start by researching how a virus like Covid 19 is spread and what stops the spread. They will look at face mask designs and design 3 versions. Students will then pick the one they think looks the best and one they will want to wear. They will use Google drawing to create a design and use a mask template for their design. Maybe making a mask of their own will encourage dialogue with their parents about wearing a mask, and also their extended family and friends and maybe encourage mask-wearing to stop the spread of the virus.
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