Unit 5. Community Action Project. Brainstorm ( Week II )

Unit 5. Community Action Project

Week II. Brainstorm

This week, help your students identify food-related issues that they can work on to benefit their community.

The videos below may help them generate ideas during the brainstorming process.

Featured resource:

A Better Way to Brainstorm: How to Get Students to Generate Original Ideas

Video—Beginner–In this video, YouTube teacher John Spencer describes how brainstorming can lead to groupthink (making decisions in a way that prevents unique viewpoints and, therefore, creativity). Then, he describes the brainstorming process he uses in his class to avoid it. (142 minutes)

Unit 5. Community Action Project. Get Inspired ( Week II )

Unit 5. Community Action Project
CAP Presentations from past Global Scholars

Get inspired by viewing the Community Action Projects from Global Scholars in past years.

Which ideas could you use in your project, too?

What type of presentation could you make about your project?

Energy-Efficient in Madrid

Students in Madrid, Spain, created a website to share their Community Action Project. Their goal was to conserve water and electricity at their school. They raised awareness by creating posters and giving presentations to students in other classes. The big accomplishment of their project was to have the lights in their playground replaced with energy-efficient light bulbs! Click on the picture to explore their website!

Water Scholars, Taipei
Nangang Elementary School students in Taipei documented their Community Action Project focused on advocating for cleaner water by creating a class website. Click on the picture to explore

 

 

Unit 5. Community Action Project ( week I )

Unit 5. Community Action Project

Week 1: Community Action Project Introduction

Unit 5: Community Action Project

In this unit, your class will create a Community Action Project (CAP) to address a food system issue in your community.

Each week, class ambassadors will write posts in the discussion boards to share your progress.

Week 1: Learn what a Community Action Project is and get inspired!

Week 2: Brainstorm Community Project ideas and decide a goal

Week 3: Make a plan and write a task list

Weeks 4-6: Take action!

Week 7: Create a presentation to share your CAP with international peers.

Week 8: View others’ presentations, give feedback, and complete the end-of-year survey.

Introduce students to the concept of a Community Action Project, then get them inspired by watching the videos on the Discussion 1: Get Inspired page of their e-classroom.

YOuth Making Change” featuring Bryant Terry (Nourish)

Video–Beginner–In this video, chef and author Bryant Terry talks about the important role that young people are playing in improving the global food system. (1 minute)