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ENHANCING ELEMENTARY ANDSECONDARY EDUCATIONTHROUGH CITIZEN SCIENCE ONLOCALLY-RELEVANT MANAGEMENT ISSUES
Landscape Conservation Initiative and NAU School of Forestry
Flagstaff STEM City
Arizona Game and Fish Department
Terra BIRDS
Karl Jarvis
Mindy Bell
Andi Rogers
John Taylor
18 Sep 2013 Biennial Conference on Science and Management on the Colorado Plateau
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Community ResourcesExperiential Outdoor Education
! FUSD! Pathways! Alpine Leadership
Academy! Flagstaff Science Alliance! Marshall Magnet programs
! Higher Ed! NAU: Merriam-Powell! NAU: SEDI! Project WET
! City of Flagstaff! Festival of Science
! Coconino County! CREC Youth Conservation
Corps
! Agencies! AGFD Watchable Wildlife! AGFD Heritage Grants! USDA FS
! Nonprofit! Willow Bend! Camp Colton! Arboretum! MNA! Lowell Observatory! TerraBIRDS! Life Drawing & Education! Friends of Rio de Flag! Grand Canyon Youth
! Charter Schools
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Teacher constraints
! Time & EnergyWell, just have the teachers do it.
! Curriculum! Expertise! Funding/Supplies! Defining good projects
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Teacher constraints Community resources
! Time & EnergyWell, just have the teachers do it.
! Curriculum! Expertise! Funding/Supplies! Defining good projects
! ProgramsHow can we support the teachers?
! Projects that meet standards! Community members/
experts
! Connections to supplies andfunding
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Teacher constraints Community resources
! Time & EnergyWell, just have the teachers do it.
! Curriculum! Expertise! Funding/Supplies! Defining good projects
! ProgramsHow can we support the teachers?
! Projects that meet standards! Community members/
experts
! Connections to supplies andfunding
How to define good projects?
How to coordinate?
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Improve education by integrating itwith research and management
! Better learning! Learn science by doing science! Experiential education! Student ownership! Vision of careers
! Research! Relationships with scientists! Improve opinion of science!
Contributions to databases! Management
! Student connection with land! Community input in local issues! Scientific input, real change
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What is our legacy?
if we fail to perpetuate aplace-based and
natural sense of ourselves, people in thefuture may be worse off than they wouldhave been had we protected that heritage,
even if the people of the future are, asindividual consumers, more wealthy than weare. Bryan Norton
l
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FlagstaffStudent-Powered
ConservationMission:
Foster ecological empowerment in theFlagstaff community through
student engagement in
environmental research andland management decisions
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Vision for Student-PoweredConservation
! Empower local students and citizens to be a positiveforce in the community and the environmentthrough engaging in research and management
! Facilitate students development of anenvironmental ethic based on principles ofstewardship for the earth and respect for the
community
! Build relationships between students and scientists,managers, and other community leaders
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Goals for Flagstaff Student-Powered Conservation
! Develop a framework for environmental educationthat will maximize local resources and providecontinuity among existing programs
! Develop citizen science projects that will fill gaps inenvironmental education and integrate ecologicalresearch and management into local school
programs
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Framework:Students and Scale
K-3: Tangible, hand-held, vivid! experience, handle, develop love of
individual elements of nature
4-6: Connect to small local areas! improve neighborhood and schoolyard
habitats, plant-wildlife interactions
7-8: Connect to larger local areas!
be a positive influence in issues that facenearby areas
9-12: Landscape- and global-scale! understand and make a difference on big
issues that affect regions
Sobel 1996 Beyond Ecophobia
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Matching needs and resources:4th Grade Example
AZ Science Standards Local Resources
Earth and Space ScienceDescribe the role that water plays in the following processes that alter
the Earths surface features: Erosion, deposition, weathering
Grand Canyon Trunks on Geology (NPS)4th grade Water Festival (Project WET)Groundwater Model (Willow Bend)!
Life ScienceGive examples of adaptations that allow plants and animals to
survive: camouflage, mimicry, mutualism!
Botany Kit (Willow Bend)Fashion-a-Fish Lesson (AZGFD)
Adaptations Presentation (AZGFD)Sustainable Garden Program (TerraBIRDS)!
Life ScienceDifferentiate renewable resources from nonrenewable resources.Describe ways in which resources can be conserved (e.g., by reducing,reusing, recycling, finding substitutes).!
Trash and the Three Rs Presentation (Willow Bend)Tour of Materials Recycling Facility (Willow Bend)Tour of Landfill (City of Flagstaff)Water Use in Flagstaff Kit (Willow Bend)!
Next%Generation%Science%Standards ! Local Resources
Earths!Systems!
Make!observations!and/or!measurements!to!provide!evidence!of!the!effects!of!weathering!or!the!rate!of!erosion!by!water,!ice,!wind,!or!vegetation.!
Landforms!?!FOSS!Kit!(FUSD)!
Water!?!FOSS!Kit!(FUSD)!Grand!Canyon!Trunks!on!Geology!(NPS)!4th!grade!Water!Festival!(Project!WET)!
Groundwater!Model!(Willow!Bend)!
Structure,!Function!and!Information!Processing!Construct!an!argument!that!plants!and!animals!have!internal!and!
external!structures!that!function!to!support!survival,!growth,!behavior,!and!reproduction.!
Structures!of!Life!!FOSS!Kit!(FUSD)!Botany!Kit!(Willow!Bend)!
Fashion?a?Fish!Lesson!(AZGFD)!Adaptations!Presentation!!(AZGFD)!
Variety!of!Resource!Trunks!!Bats,!Bears,!Bighorns,!Bones,!Elk,!Felines,!
plus!CrayXish!Capture!activity!(AZGFD)!Sustainable!Garden!Program!(TerraBIRDS)!
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Next steps
! Match up and publicize relationshipsbetween AZ State/NGSS/Common Corestandards with projects
! Establish ecological experiments in nativegardens at schools with Terra BIRDS
! Begin working with middle and high schoolprograms to develop citizen science projectsat Watchable Wildlife Sites
! Recruit mentors for citizen science projects!
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Next steps
! Match up and publicize relationshipsbetween AZ State/NGSS/Common Corestandards with projects
! Establish ecological experiments in nativegardens at schools with Terra BIRDS
! Begin working with middle and high schoolprograms to develop citizen science projectsat Watchable Wildlife Sites
! Recruit mentors for citizen science projects!
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Place-based learningat the right level
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Thanks
Colorado Plateau Chapter - Society forConservation Biology
Landscape Conservation Initiative, Lab ofLandscape Ecology and Conservation
Biology, NAU School of Forestry, NSFGK-12 Program
Flagstaff STEM City
Arizona Game and Fish Department
Terra BIRDS
Angie Moline, Mansel Nelson
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