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Anthony Diaz: Serving Up Community and Clean Water in Newark
Provided by: Project Drawdown |Published on: January 11, 2024
Videos Grades 9-12, ap-college
Synopsis
- This video focuses on Anthony Diaz, co-founder and executive director of the Newark Water Coalition in New Jersey, who discusses the importance of water as a natural resource and how the coalition provides water and food to the community.
- Students will learn how Mr. Diaz's Coalition helps others, how he advocates for clean water, and the power of community service to lift a neighborhood.
Subjects: Civics, Career Skills
Authors: Project Drawdown
Region: North America, USA - Northeast, United States, North Jersey, New Jersey
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- The interviewee mentions community service frequently as a positive outlet for personal growth.
- The video has visuals for the many community service projects Mr. Diaz discusses, so the narrative is easy to follow.
- The resource includes detailed discussion questions and links to provide more information about climate solutions.
Additional Prerequisites
- Mr. Diaz mentions the pandemic and that "people were suffering in silence," so teachers should prepare for students to discuss memories of that time.
- Students should know the terms indigenous, aeroponics, and inherent value.
- The interviewee mentions anime as a stress reliever so students can discuss their favorite anime characters and shows.
Differentiation
- Mr. Diaz discusses having grit, tenacity, and perseverance due to his childhood circumstances and neighborhood so English teachers can have students watch the video, define those terms, and then complete a creative writing activity about someone who displays the same qualities.
- Guidance counselors facilitate a discussion about the concept of limited potentials stemming from limited dreams after students view the video.
- Mr. Diaz mentions "systems of oppression" as catalysts for a survival mode response. History teachers can have students research the phrase and then apply it to the history of people living in lower socio-economic areas in the United States.
- He also mentions the importance of becoming self-sustainable by growing food so Science teachers can use that discussion to begin a classroom gardening activity.
- This video is one of a larger documentary project highlighting climate heroes so teachers can create small-group research projects with the set of videos.
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Project Drawdown
Project Drawdown is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “drawdown”—the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. Cities, universities, corporations, philanthropies, policymakers, communities, educators, activists, and more turn to Project Drawdown as they look to advance effective climate action. Project Drawdown resources for educators include the database of Drawdown Solutions, educational video series Climate Solutions 101, the Drawdown Stories initiative, and more.
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