Overview

To change a culture, we will engage all stakeholders in the reality of the problem. We will educate ourselves on the impact and possibilities we can have on the problem. This project will provide us with many authentic opportunities to work collaboratively as a team to solve our trash problem.

Project Initiation

The problem will be addressed by using different approaches and experiences. The problem is framed scientifically through habitat and ecology issues in science class in addition to hosting guest speakers from, "I Love A Clean San Diego". English classes will read a fiction based story, "Seed Folks" which highlights how a community deals with waste problems.  Mathematics classes will teach students how math / statistics are used to convey measures of central tendencies.  

Project Exploration and Development

Our cross curricular journey begins with a full week at Cuyamaca Outdoor School to discover our “Place in Nature” and build relationships. Our client, “I Love a Clean San Diego” will visit science classes to teach concepts of sustainability and conservation. Science classes will learn how to collect, dump, separate, and divert the contents of 30 big recycling bins.  Every six weeks for 36 weeks students collect data from the bins. In math classes, students use the data collected from the recycling process to create statistics. In English classes students use reading and writing strategies to synthesize their learning into an informational document. Students build trifolds and display their work for our client to select the best trifolds to increase their instructional outreach.

Project Revision and Exhibition

We found that our biggest issue is maintaining a consistent timeline of executing all these steps between our classrooms and school events.  Periodic time dedicated to our meeting as a team and coordinating these events needs to supported by our site. 

Teachers and Subjects

Science: Stefan Bauer & Don Wood
Mathematics: Kyle Ketchum & Dan Sloan
English: Courtnee Donohoe & Teri Rosinski

Students in Action