The year started well. We began with the idea of working on citizenship and voting. Students worked on what it means to be a citizen. We talked about the elections, fake news and how the politics affected our families. The students came with me to vote, they observed the process and then we waited - Once the election results came in, my class was done. They could not continue working on the project due to too many concerns surrounding their families.
So instead we changed course and after a lot of reading between December and January, we can up with a plan to investigate plastic pollution and how it is affecting our community coastlines.