Service Learning Plans and Projects
CLIMATE CHANGE AND MANOOMIN (WILD RICE) AT FOND DU LAC (FDL) WS ACTIVITY PLAN
Type: Get Wild About Climate Change
Description
This activity for elementary to middle school students helps them explore how climate change will affect manoomin (wild rice). The activity uses climate maps and Ojibwe language.
NOON NATURE NUTURE CLUB (NNN CLUB)
Type: Get Wild About Climate Change
Description
Nature is everywhere and available. The NNNClub lesson plan will help you connect middle school children with nature and create a lifestyle where curiosity and frequent experiences with the nature world is “fun"damental!
RESEARCHING & WRITING A PAPER ON CLIMATE IMPACTS ON SPECIES
Type: Get Wild About Climate Change
Description
College students selected a topic and wrote a 3-5 page paper on climate impacts on species. Papers were required to clearly explain global climate change using place-based and scientific evidence. The accompanying power point introduces key concepts.
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Type: Get Wild About Climate Change
Description
Learn how different plant and animal beings are being affected by climate change through this interactive activity where participants are engaged in showing how some beings may be moving on.
BEINGS ON THE MOVE ACTIVITY
Type: Get Wild About Climate Change
Description
Learn how different plant and animal beings are being affected by climate change through this interactive activity where participants are actively engaged in demonstrating how some beings may be moving on.
CLIMATE CHANGE AND CULTURE UNIT OVERVIEW
Type: My G-WOW Model
Description
Based on the G-WOW website, this unit (a work in progress) leads students to an understanding of climate, climate change, and the effects of climate change on cultures. It culminates in a trip to Lake Superior, Stockton Island, and visit to GLIFWC.
OJIBWE SEASONAL ACTIVITIES VS. CLIMATE CHANGE
Type: Our Climate, Our Cultures
Description
My lesson introduces climate change, the impacts, and the actions we can take to help stop it. It also focuses more specifically on how climate change is impacting the numerous seasonal activities of the Ojibwe People.
CLIMATE SCIENTISTS
Type: Our Climate, Our Cultures
Description
Oredocker Project School 6th, 7th and 8th graders participated and presented a series of small climate themed projects in the fall, culminating with a Climate Scientist lesson in a 3-day camping trip, applying and further developing learned skills.
THREE SISTERS GARDEN
Type: Our Climate, Our Cultures
Description
Fourth and fifth grade students learned about Native American culture through textbooks and field trips. Climate change and planting without chemicals were emphasized. The students planted a Three Sisters garden as service learning project at school.
A PAINTING OF YOUTH EMPOWERMENT IN LOCAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Type: Our Climate, Our Cultures
Description
Amy Nosal, AmeriCorps VISTA with Iron County UW-Extension, utilized her experience in the 2014 G'WOW Teacher Institute to complete a youth mural project at a developing trailhead in downtown Hurley, WI.
NORTHWEST SCHOOL COASTAL CLIMATE CAMP LESSON PLAN
Type: Our Climate, Our Cultures
Description
This is a lesson plan and resources used for a G-WOW Coastal Climate Camp at the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center in Ashland, WI.
CLIMATE CHANGE AND MANOOMIN (WILD RICE)
Type: Our Climate, Our Cultures
Description
This lesson plan engages upper elementary and early middle school students to investigate three questions about the impact of climate change and manoomin (wild rice) by applying the G-WOW model and website resources.
HOW TO CREATE COMICS TO COMMUNICATE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE
Type: Our Climate, Our Cultures
Description
This course introduces students to the basic principles of artful storytelling, focusing on comics as a platform to communicate climate change stories. It will empower students to construct their narrative of climate change that is fun and engaging.
CLIMATE CHANGE AND MANOOMIN (WILD RICE)
Type: Our Climate, Our Cultures
Description
Engage students in investigating climate change and wild rice by appyling the G-WOW model and website resources that integrate place-based evidence of climate change with science. Ojibwe language components included.
GLIFWC PHENOLOGY RESOURCES
Type: Project Budburst Phenologies
Description
Check out a variety of phenology resources that integrate Ojibwe ecological knowledge the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission's (GLIFWC)Phenology Website.
WHAT ONE SCHOOL CAN DO
Type: Save Your Energy
Description
International Year of Light: What one School Can Do.
Ashland High School students will produce a DVD, upload pictures about light to geotagged google earth markers or read a book and present findings that can be shown and discussed locally