Flipping The Lens-A Native Community Documenting Itself
My students need 5 digital voice recorders for recording and transcribing interviews with elders, and hydroquinine to help develop homemade photos of their interviews and community.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Wright's classroom raised $705
This project is fully funded
At this Native American reservation school, we're trying to put science into the service of community and culture.
At a small alternative school on an Indian Reservation, my students face the daily onslaught of poverty and disenfranchisement that pervades so many reservation communities. But in a place where education has often been a cultural imposition, we are working to make it a tool of discovery and empowerment. To give science meaning and context, my class will pair up with the language arts teacher to have students photograph and record interviews with elders in their community.
To complete this project, my students need voice recorders to record their interviews and to use in transcribing or playing them for others. As they work on the project, they will learn the science behind light and sound, build their own pin-hole cameras and develop the images they create. Most of the photo materials will be homemade, but Hydroquinone is an important (and expensive) chemical that is necessary for developing and printing their images. The students interviews and photographs will be brought together to create a collective portrait of the community. This portrait will allow my students to project their own image of a community that is so often documented from outside, to learn science skills in the context of meaningful application and to consider the role that science and technology have in how culture and identity are communicated.
Your support will make this exciting project possible, and give my students the chance to connect their school experience to themselves and their community.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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