Thursday, January 8, 2015

Homelessness PowerPoint Project: Ceramics Midterm


Using Google Docs, create a PowerPoint about homelessness as a follow-up to our semester-long Empty Bowl Project. Share your presentation with ms.kappelman@gmail.com
Your PowerPoint should include the following information:

·         Definitions of homelessness and poverty
·         Information about Preble Street Resource Center
o   Who do they serve? (demographics)
o   What kinds of programs does the Center provide
o   Where are they located?
o   When did they open? How long have they been around? What are their hours?
o   How do they get there funding? How much money do they need?
o   Why do we go there as a class and donate money? (Your opinion)
·         Information about homelessness, poverty, and hunger in Maine: Demographics
·         Information about homelessness and poverty in the US
o   How many people in the US are homeless? Live in poverty? What percent is that?
o   How many kids? What percent is that?
o   How many people are mentally ill in this population?
o   What is the racial breakdown of homelessness? Poverty?
o   What is the level of education in this population?
o   How have the levels changed over the years?
·         Information about a couple government programs that combat poverty/homeless/hunger (who qualifies and what the program does)
·         Information about the Empty Bowl Project (What is it?)
·         Your opinion:
o   How would it feel to be homeless? (Read some stories online)
o   What would you do if you found yourself homeless?
o   What should we, as a society do, to fight hunger, homelessness, and poverty in the U.S.?

Cite ALL your sources in a BIBLIOGRAPHY! If you got any information from a website, copy and paste the URL into your BIBLIOGRAPHY. If you copy and paste anything WORD-FOR-WORD, make sure to put it in QUOTATION MARKS and hyperlink the quotation to the website it came from or say where the quotation came from in that slide.

Add graphics, images, and video to enhance your presentation. Videos should be hyperlinked to the website where you found them.

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