Summary: This is an international collaborative project in which students create individual family plans for protecting our earth after researching steps taken by other countries to preserve our planet.
Description:
Students know that protecting our planet for future generations is important, but they often don’t know how they can individually make a difference or even what they can do. In this project, students will learn what school-aged children in other parts of the world are doing to protect our earth. They will take this and other research and create individual family plans that they will implement with their families. Through monitoring their progress and updating their plans at regular intervals, students will begin to realize that through the “Power of One,” they can make a big difference in preserving our planet.
- Facilitator(s): Terese_Tye
- Country: United States
- Languages: English
- Student Age Level: 12-14, 15-18
- Contributions: Sharing of cultural information leading to more planetary preservation.
- Outcomes:
A year-long student-generated conservation plan implemented and monitored by each student.
The main product of this project will be the monitored family plans for protecting the earth. Through using the research process, a wide variety of the following can be used in gathering information about how to recycle, manage, and conserve:
- Questioning
- Environmental speakers
- Actual and virtual field trips
- Forum contributions with other cultures and regions
- Letter writing and e-mailing
- Research using Internet and traditional print sources
- Interviewing
- Formal presentation to classroom peers
- Community night to share and showcase plans
- Graphing and/or charting of family plan progress
- Reflection and revising of own family plan
- Creation of class-wide plans to be judged by school administration and/or elected officials and implemented in a classroom, school, district, or community level.
- Related Links:
www.mcsoh.org