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Incorporating a Service Learning Project in Upper Division Environmental Chemistry Course – Partnership with a Local Middle School
Joyce Dinglasan-Panlilio, University of Washington-Bothell Campus; Donna Chang

Bioregion Discipline: Environmental Studies, Chemistry
Bioregion Scale: Local Community/Watershed
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Water & Watersheds, Promising Pedagogies:Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Don't Just Do Something, Sit There: Suggestions for Observing in Nature
Jean MacGregor, The Evergreen State College
A workshop for enabling students to sit quietly and observantly in the natural world.

Bioregion Discipline: English, Other, Biology, Environmental Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies
Bioregion Scale: Home/Backyard, Campus, Local Community/Watershed
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Sense of Place, Promising Pedagogies:Reflective & Contemplative Practice

Ethnographic Methods for Community Visioning
Karen Gaul, The Evergreen State College
This project involves students in substantial community-based ethnographic research. Working cooperatively together as a consultancy team, the students learn to use ethnographic and other research methods. They also learn to empower and give voice to various stakeholders and to assemble and synthesize data for a formal report.

Bioregion Discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies, Environmental Studies
Bioregion Scale: Campus
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Promising Pedagogies:Civic Engagement & Service Learning, Sense of Place, Design & Planning

Reflective Writing in response to Invasive Species Removal
Karen Harding, Pierce College at Puyallup
This activities provided reflective writing prompts to be used in conjunction with a service learning project in a science course (Restoration Ecology).

Bioregion Discipline: Biology, Geoscience, Interdisciplinary Studies, Environmental Studies
Bioregion Scale: Campus
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Ecosystem Health, Sustainability Concepts & Practices, Human Impact & Footprint, Cycles & Systems, Natural Resources, Promising Pedagogies:Reflective & Contemplative Practice, Sense of Place, Promising Pedagogies:Civic Engagement & Service Learning

Land Use and Cultural Imperialism: Cases From Malaysia and the Philippines
LI LIU, Bellevue Community College
Take your students virtually to Malaysia and the Philippines via Google Earth Voyager Project; discuss cultural imperialism in the local context and find solutions to climate justice issues identified with local communities.

Bioregion Discipline: Sociology, Geography, Environmental Studies, Political Science/Policy, Communication
Bioregion Scale: Global
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Food Systems & Agriculture, Climate Justice, Promising Pedagogies:Reflective & Contemplative Practice, Sustainability Concepts & Practices, Social & Environmental Justice, Sense of Place, Promising Pedagogies:Case Studies, Natural Resources, Ethics & Values, Promising Pedagogies:Civic Engagement & Service Learning, Cultures & Religions

Making Our Campus More Sustainable and Democratic
Eric Chase, South Puget Sound Community College
With the goal of addressing sustainability within the bioregion, students will generate their own assessment of the needs of the particular learning institution in which they are a part. In a sense, this is a giant student generated service-learning project around the topic of campus sustainability.

Bioregion Discipline: Environmental Studies
Bioregion Scale: Campus, Local Community/Watershed
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Human Impact & Footprint, Promising Pedagogies:Civic Engagement & Service Learning, Promising Pedagogies, Sustainability Concepts & Practices