ARTIVISM AND STTP

This Lesson Plan has been developed as a final project for Speak Truth to Power Course. These activities intent students become "Artivists". When people are creative and aim to improve our environment using art as a tool, we can say they are combining "art" and "activism". 

"I a am forest" will be carried out and shared between the Tutoring and Art classes, with a total of five class periods and a final presentation (two class periods in the Tutorship and three class periods in the Art Class).

OBJECTIVES: 
 After this lesson, students will be able to:

• Relate the concepts of deforestation to their own lives.
• Evaluate and apply vocabulary words to facilitate generalization and
   comprehension of Wangari Maathai’s human rights work.
• Produce an original CAMPAIGN focused on the concepts of deforestation and
   its negative global impact.
• Listen, speak, and advocate about the environmental work implemented by
   Wangari Maathai.
Create something new from something recycled.
Understand the power of Art as a tool for Social Transformation.

VOCABULARY:
  • Artivism
  • Deforestation
  • Advocate
  • Soil erosion
  • Proposal
  • Criticism
  • Compassion
  • Clarity
  • Destiny
  • Forego
  • Malnutrition
  • Impoverished
  • Capital
  • Empower
  • Destiny
  • Conviction
  • Rural
CONCEPTS:
  • Courage
  • Fear
  • Perseverance
  • Empowerment
  • Empathy
  • Physical systems
  • Human systems
  • Environment and society
  • Justice
  • Civic values
  • Human rights
  • Social Transformation