Trailblazer Maria Matias
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Grades: K, 3 - 8

Video Description: Meet Maria Matias, immigrant to America from Panama and trailblazer for student opportunity.  She has developed her own successful tailoring business and gives back to her community by providing free prom dresses, tuxedos, and alterations for high school prom goers in need.

Type of Video: Profile*
Unique Video ID: Character-98**

Quick Ideas for Using the Video:

  • Do students know of people in their own community helping others as Ms. Matias does? If so, have them interview those individuals to create a video that can be shared with classmates. Consider publishing student videos on the school district website or other public forum of your choice.

 

*Profile videos use a first-person/first-hand approach to highlight interesting people doing interesting things in the area of study.

**The unique Video ID can be used to quickly locate a single video in the ET collection. This search function is designed to let teachers assign students to watch a specific video and have only that video appear as a search result. Just click on Search and choose “By Video ID.” Then type in the Video ID as it appears above. Be sure to include the dash.

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