Day One of the Clearwater High Civil Rights Tour was packed with learning. In Atlanta, the students toured The King Center, a global destination, resource center and community institution that pays respect to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy. They visited the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church where Dr. King was a pastor, and the home where he was born and raised.
The Clearwater High Students toured the CNN Center and World of Coca-Cola. They took a walk through Centennial Olympic Park, which was a major attraction during the 1996 Olympics for which Atlanta hosted. The students visited the Georgia Aquarium and finished the day by attending an Atlanta Hawks professional basketball game at Phillips Arena.
The Clearwater High Civil Rights Tour is a project-based personalized learning opportunity where 37 select students researched and created an experience that encompasses real-world occurrences that connect them to the Civil Rights movement in the United States.
The culmination of this endeavor includes an in-depth tour of historical civil rights movement sites. The students will visit Atlanta, Ga., Montgomery and Selma, Al., and conclude with a tour in the nation’s capital, Washington D.C. The trip will be held March 17-22, 2016.
On their return from the tour, the student participants, also known as CHS Freedom Ambassadors, will drive and lead a project based learning experience for the entire student body.
