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How do Members of Our Community Show Care & Perseverance?

 

Kim Tsai, 2nd Grade

High Tech Elementary, North County

 

 

 

Student Reflections:

 

“My highlight of the project was going to the beach because we got to pick up trash.” - Grant

                        

“My highlight of the project was getting to help the community.” - Matteo

 

Teacher Reflections:

 

“I was very inspired and amazed at the efforts the students made to help their community. It was tremendously rewarding to see the outcome of our field work as well as how accomplished the students felt.  I hope that this project will be an inspiration for students to continue to help others outside of their school and persevere to make a difference in their community.” - Ms.Kim

 

 

Sequence

Helpful Resources

Begin: October 7th

End: December 19th Winter Exhibition

 

Process:

Throughout the process:

*Reading non-fiction literature about community and heroes throughout the world

*We will reflect on how we can contribute back to our community.

*We will be having community service opportunities to give back.

 

Product:

Creating something to give back to the community

Children’s book on heroes in our community

Portraits of the heroes on canvas

 

October 7 - 11th

  • Looking at images of community members from Norman Rockwell paintings

    • What do you think about these images?

    • What strikes you about them?

    • Who are these people? What would their story be?

  • Write a story about this person. Make up their name, and describe what they are doing in the picture.

  • These people make up a community. What is a community?  Who is in our community? Create a list of people in HTH community.

  • Brainstorm who community members that show care and perseverance

    • Read about people who show they care and persevere

    • Write letters to people to ask them if we could interview them.

 

October 14-18

  • Interview process

    • What makes a good interview?

    • Generating interview questions

    • Practicing interviews

  • Interview family

  • Interview community members

  • Inviting experts into our classroom

  • Taking a picture of the heroes in action and practicing finding shapes in artwork

 

October 21-November 8

  • Fieldwork: Carlsbad Frazee Beach Clean Up

  • Service learning: Hosting Canned Food Drive for Ronald McDonald Charity House

  • Interview family

  • Interview community members

  • Inviting experts into our classroom

  • Taking a picture of the heroes in action and practicing finding shapes in artwork

  • Writing co-designed biographies of people students' consider heroes

 

November 11-29th

  • Fieldwork:Sunrise Senior Center to sing to seniors

  • Service Learning: Meals on Wheels Care Packages

    • Writing get well letters

    • Creating care packages

  • Writing biographies of people we consider heroes

  • Creating 1st draft of heroes on canvas

 

December 2-13

  • Fieldwork: Visiting Ronald McDonald Charity House to sort canned goods, give donations, and make cupcakes for the children in the hospital.

  • Finalizing biographies of people we consider heroes.

  • Creating 2nd draft of art products

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December 16-19

  • Visit art center to create final draft of artwork

  • Practice articulating for exhibition

  • Art Exhibition at the Charity Wings Art Center in San Marcos

  • Compile writing and artwork into book

  • Reflection

 

 

 

 

We read LOTS of biographies about people in history who show care and perseverance. We charted our findings about their life, and how they showed care and perseverance.

SIDEBAR
SIDEBAR

We cleaned up the beach and graphed the data of the items we found on the beach. 

 

Similarity, we graphed the canned goods we collected for Ronald McDonald House.

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