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Students will see that the environment has a direct effect on the lives of people; causes of problems and solutions for problems can be identified; a community is a social as well as physical place; individual citizens can take action to affect change; citizens of all ages in a community can work together to solve problems and take action.
Time Required: One month
Materials Needed:
1. The Giant Jam Sandwich, book
2. Chart Paper
3. In Celebration of Trees, The Discovery Channel, video
4. mural paper
5. recycling paper for stuffing sea animals
6. Ocean Pollution slide show
7. Save Our Seas: Curriculum for K-12, California Coastal Commission
8. crayons, staples, scissors
9. Contacts are made with other possible water service projects: Stenciling the Drains (Dept. of Public Works: 695-7310 or 7317, Daniel Stand Free or Paula Keyhole), Testing for Lead (CBE: 243-8373, H2O testing: (510) 208-4557), Beach Clean-up, Save San Francisco Bay (510-452-9261), San Francisco Estuary (510-286-0460)
10. Discuss scheduling a field trip to Muir Woods to see a forest (Old Navy Bus: 427-2351; Muir Woods, U.S. Dept. of Interior, Nat'l Park Service, 388-2596)
Procedures:
1. Students identify a class problem and try to resolve it
2. Students identify other classroom problems and propose solutions which they share
3. Students share and discuss the book-The Giant Jam Sandwich
4. They create a problem-solving chart and begin to apply to environmental problems
5. Students free associate words with Water
6. Students watch Ocean Pollution slide show
7. Students watch In Celebration of Trees video and discuss relationship to water
8. Students brainstorm possible service learning projects related to water
9. Students create murals of an ocean, lake, and river including what animal life exists in these environments.
10. Students create stuffed hanging water animals
11. Students search the Internet for water related content; they examine the Cal Hist project for local water history images
12. Discuss possible service projects: Stenciling, Testing for Lead, Beach Clean-Up
13. Discuss possibility of visiting a forest.
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