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Step 7
STAGE 3 TEACHER RESOURCE
Sharing results, good and bad, helps to identify trends
In this last step of the project students will:
understand the importance of sharing results
learn other ways to be ambassadors for the environment
encourage other students and their community to care for the environment.
Why is it important to share results?
Why is it important to share results?
Monitoring data collected over long periods of time is useful as it helps to identify trends and changes in the environment. Successes and failures can be noted and projects adjusted accordingly. This can help with planning how to manage our natural environment. Results from projects such as yours are used by state governments and local governments to plan and fund other projects. Evidence-based decisions can be made when urban planners decide what infrastructure is needed in our landscape.
Likewise, data collected at your school can help inform decisions for the future. Identifying shading and cooling, for example, can be the first steps in advocating for change and funding needs within your school.
Results from your project can be used to plan and fund other projects
Sharing your results lets you celebrate your successes
Students can be involved at all levels of this process by:
collecting data
making conclusions about what the data means (interpreting it)
undertaking ongoing monitoring and evaluation of how the program tracked
suggesting how to improve on this process in the future if the program is run again with a new cohort of students.
Sharing results across years helps future teachers, students and administrators to plan ahead and make process improvements with a view to improving the cooling at your school. Not to mention the other benefits such as the increase in canopy, habitat, connectivity and aesthetics.
What's next?
What's next?
Congratulations! You and your school have taken the first step to planning for success by being a part of the 'Cooling the schools' program.
Here are some more ideas how you, your school and your class can work together to protect and conserve our environment for generations to come.
Start a Junior Landcare group
Start a gardening club to grow your own vegetables
Start an environment group at school to run campaigns to encourage behaviours such as recycling and reducing the use of single use plastic
Join a friends of group such as the Friends of the Brush tailed Rock Wallaby
Sponsor a threatened species
Contribute to citizen science projects
Join a local Landcare or Bushcare group
Think about how you and your family can volunteer in a NSW National Park.
Greening Australia working with school students in the 'Bringing back the bush' program
Summary
Summary
You can review what you have learnt about urban heat in this slide. Perhaps form pairs and test each other to see how much you can remember.
You can review what you have learnt about urban heat in this slide. Perhaps form pairs and test each other to see how much you can remember.
Activities
Activities
A call to action – share the results of your tree planting with your school
Share the results of your tree planting with your school by creating a poster on worksheet 7.1 to encourage other classes to assist with the ongoing watering and maintenance of the site.
Create a social media post or ad to help cool the world
Create a social media post or ad using worksheet 7.2 to share what you’ve learnt and encourage others to cool down their world.
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