Rocket to Creativity

Creativity Camp Challenges!

Social Justice Team 1

Creativity Coaches: Lee Ann Davis & Tabitha Duyck

Challenge 1

6/26

How can we invite change within our community to support social justice? How will I raise awareness about the social justice issue that matters to me?

Let’s create a criteria for your TED Talk! What is most important to include?

  • Don’t forget to introduce yourself
  • PSA – use it and expand! – statistics are great! What can you add?
  • Historical references
  • 3-5 minutes! 
  • Possible guest — either a family member or interview Annie or an ‘audience member’ — pretend an animal or figure is someone important doing research on racial injustice/inequalities throughout the years
  • Props, maybe? some sort of symbol – draw, trace, sculpt (background?)
  • theme song “Glory” 

Plan your product! Use time today to explore potential final products through which you will share a solution to the social justice problem of your choice. You can reflect on these social justice campaigns.

Include these ideas in your planning if you want:

  • Background music or a theme song at the beginning or end
  • Will you dress up? What can you use as a background or stage? Any props?
  • Will Anti-Racist Annie make an appearance? What will she do or say?
  • Use ideas or concepts from yesterday’s PSA or speech — what worked well? what might you improve? This SCAMPER activity might come in handy for your plans!

Your planning could be in the form of drawing a diagram, writing a rough draft of a script, or developing a brochure or flier to hand out to people. Get all set up and practice a few times!

Challenge 2

6/25

 Final Challenge Options!

  • Host a ‘sidewalk talk’ during which you set up a table with the literature (a poster, brochure, infographic)  you created to raise awareness to the social justice movement or issue of your choice. Have conversations with anyone willing to chat! Just remember to social distance 😉
  • Record your very own TED Talk or film! Reach out to family and friends to share your talk, post it on social media sites, etc. Upload it to YouTube! Don’t forget to use props, special guests or interviews, and anything that might help your audience engage visually.
  • Write a script and use family members to help you act out a play or scene emphasizing a solution to the social justice problem you identified. Film your performance!

What ideas do you have? Don’t forget to include your social justice hero and these tips from yesterday in your final product! You may also choose to use the hashtag #SoJustEd if you post online ☺

Challenge Results

Marissa’s Egg Drop

Marissa’s Egg Drop

by | Jun 26, 2020 |

https://wcu.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Podcast/StreamInBrowser/2d107541-e6bc-4e6e-af11-abe6013f1a6f.mp4 https://wcu.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Podcast/StreamInBrowser/49707790-28a6-4153-a78c-abe6013f1a2e.mp4  

Challenge 1

6/25

How can we invite change within our community to support social justice? What problems or projects might be meaningful to me?

Your social justice hero, Anti-Racist Annie, has just shown up in a town that knows nothing about social justice or racial inequality. 

Set up a town or community using animals, dolls, drawings, etc. Consider the following:

  • Are there businesses or houses? Draw, sculpt, assemble, etc. some buildings!
  • How many people (or toys) are in the town? the more the merrier!
  • What are they doing when Annie shows up? 
  • Make it big! or even take it outside! 

Take a photo of your town and email it to us! Plan ahead with these tips for challenge #2! 

Challenge 2

6/25

 

Write & deliver a speech or public service announcement – click here for examples & info – that Annie would give to this town to educate them on social justice..  Film it on Flipgrid (or maybe even use iMovie or a cell phone video) so that we can see Annie deliver her speech! 

In your speech or PSA, be sure the character or social justice hero answers or asks the following questions:

  • How can we invite social change within our community to support social justice? 
  • What are some potential solutions to problems surrounding social justice?
  • What can this town do to be more supportive and aware?
Click Here for More Info!

This SCAMPER activity will help you brainstorm ways to improve your PSA and gather some ideas for your TED Talk tomorrow!

Substitute = “What could I use instead?” or “What other materials or components could I use?”

Combine = “How can I combine parts or ideas? Are there two things I could blend rather than come up with something new?”

Adapt = “What else is like this?” or “Could we change or imitate something else?”

Modify = “Could we change a current idea, practice, or product slightly and be successful?”

Put to another use = “How can I use this in a new way?”

Eliminate = “What can be omitted or eliminated? Are all the parts necessary?”

Reverse = “Could I use a different sequence? Could I interchange parts?”

Use this Padlet to record your thoughts! 

Challenge Results

Challenge 1

6/24

How can we invite change within our community to support social justice? What problems or projects might be meaningful to me? 

Explore the different types of social justice. We have included links to videos, stories, and other texts below to help you look closely at a few possible types of social justice. Pick a focus for the rest of the week so that we can determine a project as we move forward.

Start with this Kid President video!

Write a #hashtag phrase or motto that represents a theme in the one of the readings or videos. Try to pick something that you are passionate about as well!

“The Day I Swam Into a New World” (short story)

Marley Diaz on The Nightly Show #1000BlackGirlBooks (video)

Sophie Cruz speaks at Women’s March (video)

Rebekah Bruesehoff on being Transgender (video)

Diary of a Teenage Refugee (informative text)

“The New Kid in Class” (short story)

Click here for more info!

Kerry, we have included the commercial mentioned in our Zoom meeting this morning! It is quite powerful and may inspire you in some way. It is called ‘The Talk’ by Proctor and Gamble. 

Feel free to make your own commercial, write (and perform, if you want!) your own song! How cool would that be?! How awesome to create your social justice hero/character and have them dance or sing to a song about social justice that you wrote or performed! 

These ideas are completely optional, so don’t feel pressured to do anything you don’t want to do. 

We’ve also included the song and lyrics to the Black Eyed Peas song “Where is the Love?” Check it out! 

Challenge 2

6/24

Name a problem you have observed under the theme of social justice. Come up with possible solutions to the problem or ways to raise awareness to that problem.

Check out these justice campaigns for inspiration on what you might create!

Create a character that might serve as a hero for your justice campaign. What are his or her superpowers? How will she or he solve the problem you identified in your problem statement? 

Draw or sculpt your character and surround them with words that might describe their personality and superpowers. Don’t forget to take photos!

Challenge Results

Challenge 1

6/23

What is social justice? What resources can we use to help us define social justice? How can we invite change within our community to support social justice?

Listen to a picture book read aloud. Copy the link under each book to check out the video. How is social justice represented in the book?

Act out a performance of one of the scenes in the picture book you listened to. Film your performance or stage the scene using toys. Include narration during which you explain the theme of social justice from that scene in the book.

 

Click here for more info!

Kerry, yesterday you mentioned an interest in the Black Lives Matter movement. We wanted to offer a few more resources specifically for that interest! Here’s a picture book by and an interview with Lupita Nyong’o. It might give you some ideas as we move forward! 

You can complete the challenge mentioned to act out a performance of a scene from “Sulwe”, if  you choose that particular book! We just wanted to add an extra option for you 🙂

Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o

An interview with Lupita Nyong’o

the cover of a children's book called I'm not just a scribble.

I’m not just a scribble

https://youtu.be/ERv2njheIyc

Cover of the children's book the day you begin

The day you begin

https://youtu.be/0w_ScLI0es4

Cover of the children's book the sneetches

The Sneetches

https://youtu.be/8-QevAGsl6A

Cover of a children's book called last stop on market street

Last stop on market street

https://youtu.be/H0Tr66OrEWA

Challenge 2

6/23

 Create a poster or picture to reflect your own meaning of social justice (it can relate to the picture book you read or something else you like).

Be artistic and imaginative when portraying your meaning of social justice.
It can be a drawing, painting, or symbol! Whatever helps you express what social justice means to you.

Challenge Results

Challenge 1

6/22

What is identity? How do we identify ourselves? What makes us different from others?

Create a ‘self portrait’ using materials from around your house.

Your self portrait can be a picture you draw, a box of items you collect that are meaningful to you, a sculpture using random household objects, a collage of photographs, etc.

Be creative in how you choose to represent yourself!

Challenge 2

6/22

Ask a family member or close friend to describe you. How does their description of you match your self portrait? How is their description different from your self portrait?

In your conversation, consider these points: 

  • personality – are you extroverted, introverted? how so?
  • relationship with others (friends, siblings, etc.)
  • try to think outside of physical description or attributes; what makes you unique?

Challenge Results