Group 2: Activity Reviews

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Bridget and Linda - Blue in your Green School

- high school - is it at a high enough level for high school or university?

- needs to be modified for university-level students

- advance placement or college-bound students

- continuing project from year to year - continuing to address water use

- Bill's suggestion to divide project into three parts and rotate each year - example - did the first year's work?


- how big should the groups be?

- no feedback from the school boards about group size

- groups of 3-5 good for group interactions

- Bridget's info sites - good resource if questions

- resource for teachers or students?

- website resources a little overwhelming

- reading may be a good


Bill on other projects - how do you get at individual level of effort and how to prevent plagiarism

- contract or group participation


Maureen's project

- need to emphasize citation of sources

- how does this work for the community? info out to community?

- extension?

Bridget - are there other assessment techniques?

- interviews in small groups

- groups critique other group projects

- fill out rubric or modify slightly - is project persuasive and complete?

- competition among the posters - problematic?

- suggestions to community - would it actually be put into place



Geoscape link - poster available - 3 x 4 ft. posters that could be displayed

- use ppt poster format and print by demand

- pass it off to schools



- we liked idea of grounding text book knowledge in a location

- need to adapt to different levels, 9-12, undergrad, upper level


- intellectual property problems? group work and synthesizing info, not completely original