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Who Do You Think You Are?

Building empathy through understanding identity and diversity.

Project Overview

Everyday we are exposed to different individuals, perspectives, and walks of life. Have you ever thought about why some individuals have similar features to yourself? Why is identity so important? Does the way we define ourselves affect how other people look at us? This project will allow students to develop their ability to empathize with others and engage in meaningful ways with members of our community and beyond.

 

Essential Questions

  • Who do you think you are?

    • How do race and culture shape identity?

    • How are our identities shaped by history?

    • How do our genes influence how we look and function?

 

Project Objectives

  1. Students will explore the evolution of man

  2. Students will research change-agents throughout history and create a presentation about their significance

  3. Students will explore their cultural identity and those from other cultures

  4. Students will learn how to identify a credible source

  5. Students will investigate, research, and compose an evidence-based article on the perceptive idea(s) on race and culture.

  6. Students will create one to two minute mini documentaries

  7. Students will design a conceptual ART piece which identifies, and expresses insights gained from their interviewee

    1. Students will learn design thinking processes which they will utilize to design this ART piece.

  8. Students will design graphed self-portraits through application of integers and coordinate pairs

  9. Students will explore heredity: inheritance and variation of traits and cell structure.

Final Product

As an interdisciplinary project, students will create one to two minute mini-documentaries depicting perceptive ideas around race and culture. Along with these documentaries, students will create resonating photographic art. Students will create a news article that will house their research-based article(s), and create a graphical art piece depicting various phenotypes shared amongst us. Students will also create a digital art piece or, a digital plan for a conceptual art piece, that addresses an insight that they identified while interviewing their subject. At exhibition, students will present their digital art piece and share their design process.

 

Exhibition

All-School Exhibition - March 23, 2017

Challenge Options

​​Please work top-down :)

  1. Check PowerSchool and complete any Missing, Incomplete, or No Credit assignments.

  2. Edit the who do you think you are student responses.

  3. Make a project web showing everything we have done throughout the project (make a draft to get approved).

  4. Edit your peer's Change-Agent Text Overviews to make them exhibition ready

  5. Make a BioCube about your Change-Agent!

  6. Play 3 of the 6 games on understandingrace.org

    1. Write a 4 sentence summary of what you learned from the games.​​

  7. Write an empathy letter to anyone.

  8. Make a digital poster or timeline on Google Draw about your change-agent, research topic, or Lit Circle book.

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