Description
This community interview project is perfect for practicing interviewing skills and teaching students how to conduct an interview! Includes a slideshow lesson, interview graphic organizers, and an editable rubric. Based on the “Humans of New York” project, students will write articles after conducting interviews with partners within the school community! Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.
Included with this Community Interview Project:
- “Humans of My School” Slideshow Lesson – Microsoft PowerPoint® and Google Slides®
- Explore Brandon Stanton’s interview project, “Humans of New York”
- Teach interviewing skills and the interview process
- Model interview questions for students to use during their interview project
- “Humans of My School” Guided Note – Digital & Print
- Interview Outline Graphic Organizer – Digital & Print
- Scaffold the interview process
- Use the W5-H Framework to prepare interview questions
- Narrative Summary Graphic Organizer – Digital & Print
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- Use the W5-H Framework to write a summary of interview
- 4-Level Interview Project Rubric – Editable & Ready-to-Print
- Teacher Instructions for using this resource
How to use this Community Interview Project:
This Community Interview Project is based on Brandon Stanton’s famous photography project, “Humans of New York.” Students will learn about the interviewing process and how to conduct an interview within your school community. They will also write a narrative summary to capture the story of the person that they interview.
You can begin this lesson with the “Humans of My School” Slideshow Lesson. This lesson is formatted for both Microsoft PowerPoint® and Google Slides®. Students will explore Brandon Stanton’s interview project, “Humans of New York,” including his interview process for capturing meaningful stories. They will also learn about the interview process, including how to introduce their Community Interview Project and how to conduct themselves respectfully, in order to conduct their own interviews.
This slideshow lesson also includes interview question examples in order to model the interview process to students.
As you work through the lesson with your students, they can fill out the corresponding Guided Note. This guided note template prompts students to make note of important information from the slideshow lesson. They will also have space to answer the inquiry-based questions within the slideshow; you can have students fill out their answers before consolidating them as a class with the information provided in the lesson.
Students can then conduct their interview using the Interview Outline Graphic Organizer provided. This graphic organizer will have students introduce themselves, brainstorm potential questions, conclude their interview, and request a photograph for their project. It also utilizes the W5-H Framework (who, what, when, where, why, and how) to engage in meaningful conversation during the interview process, which is essential for a strong Community Interview Project.
To scaffold writing, this resource also includes a narrative summary graphic organizer. This graphic organizer will help students organize the information from their interview in order to capture a story in the style of “Humans of New York.”
A 4-level rubric for the interview process has also been provided for assessment purposes. This rubric is also provided in editable and ready-to-print formats to meet the unique needs of your classroom when evaluating the final Community Interview Project.
✨ Kindly note that due to copyright restrictions, this resource is not editable, except for the files specifically labelled as editable. This is a common practice within the online marketplace in order to protect the clip artists and software providers that have authorized their intellectual property for the development of this resource.
See what other teachers are saying about this Community Interview Project:
“This was a very engaging (but still challenging!) activity to wind up the year with last spring–my students interviewed members of the school community before they “graduated” and moved on to the high school. It was a perfect farewell project for them and gave them opportunities to practice so many standards that are valuable not only in ELA, but in life–like listening, asking follow-up questions, paying attention to someone’s story, showing respect for varied backgrounds and experiences, etc. It is definitely one I’ll turn to again!”
– Nancy M.
⭒ For classrooms utilizing Google Classroom® ⭒
To access the digital version of these worksheets, simply follow the instructions within the resource to copy the files directly to your Google Drive®.
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Creative Primary Literacy (verified owner) –
Fantastic interview activity that allows the students to work independently. The activity worked well in my school, and the staff and students all really enjoyed taking part – thanks. 🙂
ABA Treasure Chest (verified owner) –
This is going to be an awesome project for the high school students at a home-school Co-op where I teach! You have included everything needed to make this an effective, exciting project with assured student buy in!!
The Red-Haired Reader (verified owner) –
What an AMAZING idea for a project! There’s so many skills involved, from interviewing to writing to recording. My class is going to have SO MUCH FUN with this! Thank you so much.
Tea4Teacher (verified owner) –
Such an interesting project spring-boarding off Stanton’s work. This has the potential to be really personal and interesting; the kids will love it. Thanks!
Tea4Teacher (verified owner) –
Such an interesting project spring-boarding off Stanton’s work. This has the potential to be really personal and interesting; the kids will love it. Thanks!
Ms. Maude (verified owner) –
Amazing project!
Nicole Z. (verified owner) –
I am so beyond excited to implement this project with my students!! With everything that is going on in our country right now, I feel like this is the perfect project to gain multiple different perspectives on life to embrace diversity!
Nicole Z. (verified owner) –
I am so beyond excited to implement this project with my students!! With everything that is going on in our country right now, I feel like this is the perfect project to gain multiple different perspectives on life to embrace diversity!
Elizabeth A. (verified owner) –
This was exactly what I needed to update my personal materials. It worked incredibly well with my students!
Elizabeth A. (verified owner) –
This was exactly what I needed to update my personal materials. It worked incredibly well with my students!
Liz M. (verified owner) –
I loved using this project! This was a great springboard for my students to get to know one another.
Liz M. (verified owner) –
I loved using this project! This was a great springboard for my students to get to know one another.
Kelly B. (verified owner) –
This was a great addition to our Identity unit.
Kelly B. (verified owner) –
This was a great addition to our Identity unit.
Danielle W. (verified owner) –
This is a wonderful resource to keep students focused and engaged throughout the PBL process in ELA.
Danielle W. (verified owner) –
This is a wonderful resource to keep students focused and engaged throughout the PBL process in ELA.
Bera Y. (verified owner) –
My students were very engaged with this project. I truly enjoyed using it in my classroom.
Bera Y. (verified owner) –
My students were very engaged with this project. I truly enjoyed using it in my classroom.
Tasia P. (verified owner) –
Thank you, this was a very helpful resource for me and my students.
Tasia P. (verified owner) –
Thank you, this was a very helpful resource for me and my students.
Debra B. (verified owner) –
My students in my career exploration class enjoyed this.
Debra B. (verified owner) –
My students in my career exploration class enjoyed this.
Sarah M. (verified owner) –
A great resource for our podcast unit. It helped students develop quality interview questions.
Sarah M. (verified owner) –
A great resource for our podcast unit. It helped students develop quality interview questions.
Jillian Y. (verified owner) –
This was a great resource during my Humans of Our School unit!
Jillian Y. (verified owner) –
This was a great resource during my Humans of Our School unit!
Anne Marie B. (verified owner) –
A perfect activity to challenge my students. They loved it.
Natalia S. (verified owner) –
I am going to use this project with my students and I am excited about the prospect of what they are going to come up with. I would like to know if there is a way to get an editable version so I can adjust the questions etc to tailor to my classroom?
Nancy M. (verified owner) –
This was a very engaging (but still challenging!) activity to wind up the year with last spring–my students interviewed members of the school community before they “graduated” and moved on to the high school. It was a perfect farewell project for them and gave them opportunities to practice so many standards that are valuable not only in ELA, but in life–like listening, asking follow-up questions, paying attention to someone’s story, showing respect for varied backgrounds and experiences, etc. It is definitely one I’ll turn to again!
Heather P. (verified owner) –
I used this resource with my grade 6’s while teaching them to write news articles. It was very useful.
Marissa H. (verified owner) –
This resource is helpful in connecting with the community. We are a small school, but I think this was something quite aligned with my vision.
Christina W. (verified owner) –
This was a great resource for my interview unit in my journalism class!