Getting Started & Project Ideas
To start exploring the issue of poverty use the activities provided by your teacher before researching further on some of the recommended websites listed on the links and downloads section of this website.
Once you have looked at these issues, work either as a pair, in a group, as a class or even as a whole school to create a project about how you think and feel about these issues…. , what you have found out and ideas you have to make the situation better. You can do any type of project you like as long as it is about global issues - it could be a painting, a poster, a presentation, a recording, a play, a song, a poem or a sculpture.
Suggestions for different kinds of project are provided below:
Some project ideas
Write it: Write a short story; write a letter; compile a diary; compile a newspaper or magazine; write a poem
Record it: Make a movie; act out a story as drama; audio-record a story or an interview
Picture it: Take photographs; use photos to show contrasts, to show possibilities, to show what can be done.
Draw it / Paint it / Make it: Design a poster; paint a wall frieze; make up a collage; build a model; invent a board game; make a map
Ask it: Set up an interview; do a vox pop at your school or shopping centre; carry out a small survey of what people know, or of what people think about a poverty question; devise a quiz in your school.
Sing it: Write a song; make up a rap; put new words to a popular song
Once you have completed your project work communicate what you have learnt to your school or community, why not try:
- putting up posters with your message in your school or community;
- hosting an assembly or exhibition for the community of your work;
- compiling a slide presentation;
- telling people about what they can do to eradicate poverty in the world i.e. buying Fair-trade, writing to government leaders etc.;
- sending a letter to you local paper or community newsletter
