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CREATE A
COMMUNITY PROJECT!
💭💡🔥🌱

 
 

These online activities will help you gather ideas and bring the Community Action Journal to life!

Follow the lessons below to create a project that will make a difference in your community.

Thank you in advance for your energy, your commitment and your leadership.

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LESSON #1 — What is Community?
LESSON #1 — What is Community?

MATERIALS & PREP

✅ Be prepared with a computer, projector, or other device(s) to show the videos and prompts.

✅ Get Community Action Journals and pencils.

✅ Find space where you can play “I Love My Neighbor Who”

✅ One cone, chair, or backpack per student.

LESSON #2 — Team Strengths
LESSON #2 — Team Strengths

MATERIALS & PREP

✅ Get Community Action Journals and colored pencils, markers, or crayons.

✅ Get a measuring tape.

✅ Prepare materials for the Marshmallow Challenge (each group of 4 students will get 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of string, one marshmallow, a one yard long piece of tape).

✅ Be sure to take lots of photos & videos along the way to document your work and progress.

LESSON #3 — Too Inspired To Be Tired
LESSON #3 — Too Inspired To Be Tired

MATERIALS & PREP

✅ Be prepared to watch the video KAMALA AND MAYA'S BIG IDEA

✅ Get Community Action Journals and colored pencils, markers, or crayons.

LESSON #4 — Project Ideas
LESSON #4 — Project Ideas

MATERIALS & PREP

✅ Pens or pencils

✅ Community Action Journals

LESSON #5 — Mission Decision
LESSON #5 — Mission Decision

MATERIALS & PREP

✅ Pens or pencils

✅ Community Action Journals

LESSON #6 — Make a Plan
LESSON #6 — Make a Plan

MATERIALS & PREP

✅ Pens or pencils
✅ Community Action Journals

LESSON #7 — Take Action
LESSON #7 — Take Action

MATERIALS & PREP

✅ Go to scoresu.org/action-activities to take action!

✅ If you and your team have other ideas for how to take action, run with them!

✅ Once you've completed your Community Action, look back through your phone to find the photos you took that document your Community Project.

✅ If you don't have any photos, you can find images from the internet that represent your project.

LESSON #8 — Prepare to Share
LESSON #8 — Prepare to Share

MATERIALS & PREP

✅ Student Community Action Journals

✅ Pencils, pens, glue sticks, other art supplies

✅ Poster paper (or tri-fold board)

✅ Printed photos from season

LESSON #9 — Reflect & Celebrate
LESSON #9 — Reflect & Celebrate

GOALS OF THE LESSON

🥅 Think about your project and talk about what you learned and what you accomplished.

🎉 Celebrate your accomplishments and have an end of the year team party!!!

COMMUNITY PROJECT EXAMPLES

Check out some Community Projects that were organized by SCORES teams.

Activist Stories
Champions for Healthy Eating
Champions for Healthy Eating

Longfellow Elementary sharing their project which focused on education and advocacy to raise awareness about the importance of eating healthy. Healthy choices to live healthier lives.

A Strong Community: One SCORES Coach's Vision
A Strong Community: One SCORES Coach's Vision

Check out this Community Vision Board art by Coach Jaime. This vision of a better community features free housing, free food, free health care, a public soccer field, free education, and, of course, free video games!

What is Gentrification?
What is Gentrification?

SCORES Poet-Athletes from Hillcrest Elementary give us a snapshot of what it's like to live in San Francisco.

The Cost of Smoking
The Cost of Smoking

ER Taylor Elementary has a powerful message about the harms of smoking.

Pay Attention, Drought Education
Pay Attention, Drought Education

J Serra Elementary giving us great information about the drought!

Our "Mission", Keepin' it clean.
Our "Mission", Keepin' it clean.

Our "Mission", Keepin' it clean. Moscone Poet-Athletes show us their project of keeping their neighborhood clean.

Learning About Graffiti and Street Art
Learning About Graffiti and Street Art

Garfield Elementary took a walk through San Francisco's Chinatown and learned about graffiti and street art.

Invest in Our Library!
Invest in Our Library!

SCORES Poet-Athletes from Moscone Elementary write a letter to San Francisco Unified School District advocating for new books in the school library. Many of the books they have are old or damaged, and it is time to invest in some new exciting books!

Clean, Health Communties NOW!
Clean, Health Communties NOW!

ER Taylor Elementary wants a clean community. With their teamwork and passion, anything is possible!

Celebrate Diversity
Celebrate Diversity

Check out this drawing of a SCORES poet-athlete’s soccer team. Diversity is beautiful, diversity is important, diversity makes us stronger.

Salvation Army Water Protectors
Salvation Army Water Protectors

Salvation Army KROC Center raising awareness on water conservation at the final game day of the season.

Migration is Beautiful
Migration is Beautiful

J Serra Poet-Athletes presenting on immigration rights and reading some beautiful poems.

Building Intergenerational Connections at Moscone Elementary
Building Intergenerational Connections at Moscone Elementary

Moscone Elementary helping their community by spending the afternoon with senior citizens at a local senior home. They read books together, played games, and discussed the similarities and differences between their generations.

Redding Dragons Against Racism
Redding Dragons Against Racism

Redding Elementary raising awareness about racism in their community.

Hillcrest Boys are Allies for LGBTQ+
Hillcrest Boys are Allies for LGBTQ+

The Hillcrest SCORES team at a SCORES Saturday game day in San Francisco where they passed out flyers about LGBTQ+ rights and raised awareness about the issues faced by the LGBTQ+ community.

Peacemakers Stand Up Against Bullying
Peacemakers Stand Up Against Bullying

The SCORES team at Cleveland Elementary demonstrating their community project where they SAY NO to bullying.

The Power of Poetry
The Power of Poetry

SCORES Poet-Athletes present their poems to the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education, reminding them to prioritize arts and creative writing in schools.

Say NO to Bullying
Say NO to Bullying

Paul Revere Elementary team community project addresses bullying in schools by making posters to stop bullies, and to encourage bystanders to intervene and stop bullying.

Field of Dreams - Sanchez Elementary Advocate for a New Field
Field of Dreams - Sanchez Elementary Advocate for a New Field

Sanchez Elementary shared about their experience playing on asphalt. They're fundraising for a turf field at their school to create a fun and safe environment.