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Discover: Step 1 - Community Environmental Inventory

Provided by: Earth Force |Published on: April 27, 2021

Activity - Outdoors

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Synopsis

In this activity, students get outside to gather information about their community to evaluate the environmental strengths and challenges.
Students gather numerical data, analyze maps, conduct surveys, or talk to experts to evaluate their defined community.

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Subjects: Civics, Geography

Authors: Earth Force

Region: Global

Languages: English

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Positives

The website for this activity has lots of suggestions and background materials that will help make the activity a success.

Prerequisites

If students complete the full process, be sure to have them start a portfolio of their work.
To access the tip cards mentioned in this resource, teachers can go to the Environmental Action Civics Alliance website and create a new account to view these and other resources for Step 1.
Before starting the activity, be sure to have answered these questions to help define the scope of work for students:
- How will you define the community for this activity? Will students gather information about all aspects of the environment, or just one? Which sources of information will students use to create this inventory?

Differentiation & Implementation

This can be completed as a stand-alone activity or as one step in a larger community-action and problem-solving process (see other EarthForce resources for other steps in the process).
The website for this activity includes tutorial videos resources for introducing the inventory to students, and tools for determining the root causes of issues.
Other hands-on activities include this solar oven resource and this wind energy resource.

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Earth Force

Earth Force is a national nonprofit with over 30 years of experience partnering with school districts, youth-serving organizations, and educators to evolve student learning through Environmental Applied Civics (EAC). Their expertise is in the elements that make authentic civic engagement work: centering youth voice, building strong youth-adult partnerships, and creating resilient communities.

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Discover: Step 1 - Community Environmental Inventory

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