Flagstaff Student-Powered Conservation

7/29/2019 Flagstaff Student-Powered Conservation

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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



! 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



! 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

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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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