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Green Highways
Cultivating Fruitful Citizens
Molly “Irene” DoddPete FarnessSilas PencilleDarice Terry
Purpose
• Exploration of tension in life– Explicitly, the tension between consumerism and
stewardship– Fast pace verse slow pace – Related to water and food
• Additionally:– Demonstrate activism breeds optimism rather than
cynicism • Slower, less harried can be better
– Promotes healthy relationships– Engenders lively discourse– Embodiment of democratic ideals
Enduring Understandings• New technology presents new possibilities and
problems.• Media has different points of view.• Awareness is the first step of activism.• People have always had an impulse to record
their experience with nature, whether through artistic expression or scientific inquiry.
Form and Function
• Four Broad Units1. Preparation – 3 Weeks2. Stewardship – 7 Weeks3. Harvest – 4 Weeks 4. Sharing the Bounty – 2 Weeks
• Units centered on responsible life choices using the metaphors learned in the garden– Water– Food– Community Involvement
16 week course
Planting the Garden
• During the Preparation unit
• Gardening practices – Model the course themes– Provides metaphorical scaffold for students– Supplies for implementation for some newly
acquired knowledge – Develops sense of community in the
classroom
Unit 1: Preparation• Art
– Ecological art • English
– Information literacy• Life Skills
– Preparing the garden• Social Studies
– Critical thinking - water
Unit 2: Stewardship• Art
– Altered Books• English
– Land Ethic and Cadillac Desert• Life Skills
– Nutrition and Sensitive Gardening • Social Studies
– Conservation and Cadillac Desert• Choose Exhibition Content Area Focus!
Unit 3: Harvest• Art
– Installation• English
– Coming Home to Eat and Nature Writing• Life Skills
– Food Preservation and Harvest• Social Studies
– Field Trip and World Water Issues
• Students finalize exhibition form!
Unit 4: Sharing the Bounty• Art
– Exhibition work• Life Skills
– Packing and Marketing• English
– Exhibition work• Social Studies
– Exhibition work
Service Learning and Student Exhibition
• Combined effort– Students, Teachers, Community
• Students– Exhibit work to community
• Teachers– Facilitate student work and community
outreach• Community
– Supporting student efforts and raising awareness
Service Learning and Student Exhibition
• Students decided on their content focused • Presented during the service learning
community awareness fair• Theme will highlight the tension of consumer life
and stewardship of the Earth• Focus on raising community awareness • Develop closer ties to community
•Our Vision:•Modeled on a farmers market•Garden at the center•Booths set up to engage community•Student presentations raise awareness
Conclusion
• Lessons will focus on alternative choices
• Critical examination of costs and benefits
• Many alternatives presented require a shift in priorities– Speed is not a measure of success– Quality of life is attained not given