Proyecto ComUNIDAD Griffin-Adams 10th Grade Team August - December 2017
Essential Questions:
As high school students on the border - what do we have in COMMON; how are the issues facing teens on both sides of the US-Mexico border similar and different?
How can we share our visions of UNITY and HOPE; what do we want to tell the world about what matters to us?
San Diego’s High Tech High tenth grade students developed friendships with sophomores at Tijuana’s Instituto México Americano del Noroeste (IMAN), discussing and researching shared issues of injustice and opportunities for hope in our two cities along the US-Mexico border, finding common ground and connection in their weekly Skype video chats and shared photo posts via Instagram. Students interviewed experts and leaders connected to the research issues, and created visual stories about their research through cut paper art, a twist on traditional Mexican folk art, papel picado. Students will meet at Friendship Park and exhibit their art and research to the public at the border on December 9th, and at High Tech High on December 14th.
Instagram Photo Sharing with Partners
Original Papel Picado - Areas of Injustice and Opportunities for Hope