Coping With COVID is a website created to exhibit the first PBL projects of the 2020-2021 Arcata Adolescent Class at Redwood Coast Montessori.
Our PBL theme for the year is The Age of (dis)Information. For these projects, students focused on how we can evaluate and benefit from COVID-19 information in an era filled with contrasting messages.
The Website Team: Ben, Jayla, Lawrence, and Valerie
This section features projects that were focused on the political aspects of COVID-19. Several students created presidential campaign ads explaining how they would respond to the pandemic. The characters in their campaign ads were developed by watching many different campaign ads and public speeches by politicians and some students chose to be intentionally "disinformative".
Sabine
Piper and Kaelyn
Kohen and Marley
Finn
Slate
Tule
This is an opinion article that focuses on the Trump Administration's public communication in terms of COVID-19, scientific research, and using masks.
Jax
This is video that examines how recent changes in human society (due to COVID-19) have affected non-human populations.
Eli and Belysia
This is a documentary that interviews teenagers in Humboldt about how the pandemic has affected their mental health.
Alex
This is a documentary that interviews teenagers in Humboldt about how they are receiving their education during the pandemic and how they feel about the changes.
Dylan
This is a podcast explaining how medical professionals are assessing and treating COVID-19.
Zinnia and Lenore