Social Justice project ideas

These are some ideas for my next year’s Family Group.  A Family Group is an advisory group at my school, and it serves as a supportive group of about 15 students who stay together from 9th grade all the way to 12th grade.  As you can guess, we become very close.

A semester-long project.

• Watch/read/listen to videos or radio clips chosen by me…. these have to do with different social justice issues in different formats.  Here are some examples.
  • Video: Soldiers with traumatic brain injuries fight the system to receive care  http://youtu.be/vJHdVXeMrc0?hd=1
  • Op-chart: How Green is My iPad  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/04/opinion/04opchart.html
  • Video: I’m a Mac… and I’ve got a dirty secret  http://youtu.be/5Ycih_jMObQ
• Pick a social justice issue
• Pick a format that they want to let the community know somehow
  • Video
  • Letter to newspaper
  • Letter to elected leaders
  • Website
  • Podcast
  • Blog
  • Op-chart
  • Narrated photo slideshow
• Do it!