Group 1: Challenges and Opportunities
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Topic:: Small Groups: Creating, Managing, Assessing
Stephanie Maes, Mary Cosgrove, Julie Martin, Lois Ongley, Anasa Scott
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Large class suggestions:
- set specific lab section as service learning
- Project Globe: have each group of students in charge of county; Use Google Earth- to identify risks in each area and combine the data at the end
Here's a URL for our Environmental Risk Assessment that might be useful for a big class...everyone checks out the Toxic Waste Inventory, National Priority List, Census Data (mortality) for their home town:
http://serc.carleton.edu/research_education/healthrisk/index.html
- use water qualitiy data off USGS website, relatively easy to access- water.usgs.gov. Activity: Find a river with three hydrograph stations- find data for a particular storm, look at spring flooding then look at water quality
- seminar course where students would learn all the components required for the service learning course; these students then can be leaders of small groups within the large class; have the undergraduates train within the course content and the community issue so that they can actively help develop and lead the project; this could be used to link projects between courses and instructors. Bentley College may be doing something like this?
Lois- Arsenic in the water
- low tech solutions for measurement; voluntary employees bring in home water sample- hardness, arsenic, and pH; arsenic days fair at the community center- have on the spot arsenic testing
-set-up special topics class for setting-up event
Managment
Get help from campus office.
Group dynamics and cohesion.
Quality
Assessment
student learning
content - final papers, class website, student conference posters.
other than content - appreciation of science and it methodology and importance of science
Project
from community stand point - did it meet partner's needs? did it open further questions?
from the professorial standpoint - was investment of time worth the outome? learning, good will, rewarded, data useful for long-term collection (research?)