Campaign for Change:  A Healthy Environment in the United States

Objective: 

You have learned a lot in each of your classes this year.  It is important for you to demonstrate what you have learned in all of your classes for the entire year. You and your partners will choose an issue that will support a healthy environment in the United States. You will research about that issue and create a “campaign for change” that will educate the public about that issue. Choose an issue that is of interest to you and think about a project that will create real change in the United States. Is the issue serious? To whom? Who is your audience? How will you grab the audience’s attention? What will the audience learn? How can you make it interesting? How will you change people’s actions? Each of your partners will be working on solving the same issue; however, each of you will create a different individual project to create real change about your issue.

Grading: 

Your individual project will be graded by each of your teachers from each of your classes. You will receive an English grade, Spanish grade, Math grade, World History grade, Science grade, and a PE grade for you individual project. You will also receive a grade in your Advisory class based on your group presentation on Wednesday June 20th. Each of your teachers will include your grade on this project into your course grades.

Partners: 

You are required to work with one or two other people from your Advisory class. The partners that you choose will work on the same issue as you; however, you will each create your individual projects separately and then work together on your group project.

Example of Sample Project

Group Project:  This group decided to look at the issue of race relations in California.  Their group project was a dramatic reenactment in which the three students reenacted the events that led to the riots after the Rodney King verdict and the aftermath of those events.  Each student also completes his/her own individual written project.

Group Project

Individual Project

Timeline of Assignments

Click here to download the pdf file: ATP Handout 11th Grade.pdf

The online sources below allow you to find articles as well as to access census and other data relevant to your ATP projects and to map and manipulate it digitally.

EBSCO and CQ Researcher: These two databases made available through the Cal State LA library and should be the starting place for all ATP research. There is a link at the bottom of the Stern MASS webpage.

www.calstatela.libguides.com

Username: ns173077
Password: password

ArcGIS Explorer: Similar to Social Explorer, this resource allows you to map different statistics visually and to create different color coded maps showing economic and political trends, crime rates, etc. Unlike Social Explorer, this allows you to map it for different countries around the world as well as the U.S. ArcGIS Explorer also allows you to access data layers from other internet sites (CIA world fact book, World Happiness Index, United Nations reports, etc) and to make 3D maps.

This program can be easily downloaded for free and allows you to add or subtract layers onto maps, zoom in and out, and to capture a series of maps in order to create a presentation.

www.esri.com...

GeoFred: This resource is part of the Federal Reserve (St. Luis branch) and is a data mapping tool which allows you to create thematic maps based on a particular set of data. You can access data for the whole U.S. and it is particularly good for economic statistics like unemployment rates, etc.

geofred.stlouisfed.org...

You should also check out the historical data series with maps and charts going back past the Great Depression at:

research.stlouisfed.org.

Click on the link called FRASER.

Social Explorer: Allows you to access demographic data from the U.S. Census such as statistics on race, gender, occupation, country of origin, poverty levels, etc.

www.socialexplorer.com...

Should automatically log in for all school computers but if not, click on “sign in”

Username: MathSciSchool
Password: Lamass

From the homepage:
-    Click on “Maps.”
-    Click on “Census 1790-2009”
-    Use the magnifying glass to zoom in on a region.
-    Example:
o    Zoom in on East Los Angeles until you can read the numbers of the census tracts.
o    Select “Race” from the drop down menu on the right.
o    Select % Hispanic from the drop down menu below it.
o    Now we are going to run a report with the information we want using the map…
o    Click “Report” at the top of the map.
o    1. Select a report: choose “essentials” (but notice each of the demographic characteristics is listed there).
o    2. How would you like to make area selection: choose “circle” and then click “OK”
o    3. Place the + in the middle of the area you want. Holding down the mouse, drag it in one direction and you will see the circle expanding.
o    When you let go of the mouse it will immediately generate the report. 
o    The report will show the following information:
o    Down the right in lists demographic essentials:
•    Sex
•    Age
•    Race
•    Household type
•    Employment status, etc.
o    Across the top it tells you which category each of the numbers fall into. First it says “Statistics” and then provides different scales for comparison:
o    United States; California; Los Angeles County; Census Tract 2039; Census…

 Link to download word file: Digital ATP Sources Handout.doc