Learning About Our Community and Government With Photography
My students need 2 digital cameras, photo paper, a digital picture frame, journal prompts, guides to DC, and a printer.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. S.'s classroom raised $917
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.
My Students
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." -- Dr. Seuss.
My students are children of immigrant families who do not have many resources.
Our school is a 'Title 1 school' where 95% of the population is receiving free and reduced lunches. The students understand that their families have limited resources, but they don't understand "yet" that one person's voice can make a difference at home and in the community.
My Project
My students need cameras and associated materials for a year-long photo project that will help them understand their community, and how they can impact or change their community. Students' will journal through photography about their community during a nine month project that will wrap up in a letter writing campaign to policy makers. My students walk to school and they pass liquor stores; sometimes they encounter an occasional person who has had too much to drink, on their way to and from school. They often see broken beer bottles on our school grounds. These kids live in our nation's Capital, but why is their community so different than that where our President lives just a few miles away? This social studies project will enable students' to learn about local government and the government of Washington D.C. Students will learn to advocate for themselves and the community that they live in. They will use the digital cameras to take pictures of their community. We will print the pictures and use the pictures as an inspiration for journaling about our community. Our project will wrap up with a letter writing campaign to our local politicians in order to make a difference in policy changes that will affect the community.
If students cannot learn that they too can make a difference in their community, or schools, they will become apathetic.
I would like to empower them to think that they can be a catalyst for change and that it starts at home.
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