Your Pathway to Health Coloring Book.
A coloring book that shows the Health Care
Professional from Africa, African American, Mexican, Mexican American, Asian Pacific Islander and Euro American Culturals. Students from the Summer Academy project themselves into the future ten years and represent themselves in their professions. A box of multicultural crayons is provided to authenticate skin tones. K-5 students discuss racial heritage vs. skin color. The students are asked and encouraged to talk about the colors of skin and the trueness of calling people black, brown and white when reacial heritage means something very different.


  • To increase multi-cultural
    awareness in k-5 students.
  • Create assessment tools that
    show growth in understanding
    of presented material.

HCPP/KUMC
KC Mentoring Initiative
Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools
Kansas City, Kansas Community College
The Storytellers Inc., Artist Collective

 
   
Organic gardens are built and maintaned by k-5 students in four elementary schools.
A menu of garden workshops is provided to teachers integrating KCK Garden Curriculum into the science curriculum. Garden Menu includes the following Cultural Awareness components:
The Parts of a Seed:
Using the peanut to experience the parts of a seed, KCK Gardens highlights George Washington Carvers contributions in science. Students make peanut butter from the peanuts studied in the workshop.
Growing Cotton:
A new crop was added to the community garden and a new workshop to correspond. Students grown cotton and talk about the crop as part of the history of African Americans in slavery in United States agriculture.
Native Plants:
Kansas City, Kansas African American Elders share native plants on and around the schools of the community gardens. Sharing stories and recipes made from the native plants offers k-5 students a new appreciation of the culture in their neighborhoods.
Salsa Gardens:
Students are given a workshop on making organic Salsa. Salsa gardens are planted and the Latino dance is learned. Students talk about the origins of Salsa and how different foods and tastes come from the different cultures.
 
Urban Transcendence Poetry deals with honest discovery of "Who Am I?", "Who Are You?" and takes a journey inward to self-discovery.
Sharing openly in a thoughtful, safe environment provides an opportunity for students to talk about issues that have become barriers, problems and successes. These conversations are teh starting point for writing poetry and Hip Hop rhythm. A poetry anthology is published and printed from poetry submitted and chosen in grades 4th through 12th, Urban Transcendence IV.
 
Recycling, pollution and health awareness are topics included in the EnvironMental Project.
Using Art, Technology and the University of Kansas Medical Center field trips, students learn how their city rates in toxic fumes, waste, asthma and child lead poisoning. Learning how to solve environmental problems and providing opportunities for children to teach other children about what they have learned is all a part of the inner city awareness taking place to provide students with more understanding in how to overcome obstacles and provide solutions in the urban environment. Students create EnvironMental short films, PSA's and games in the hands on curriculum.

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