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Incorporating Service Learning into a Non-Majors
Environmental Biology Course
Dr. Lissa LeegeProfessor of Biology and
Director, Center for Sustainability Georgia Southern University
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What is Service-Learning and How Does
It Work?• Apply course content to service
• Learn course content through service
• Reflect on service and how it relates to content
• Gain skills, confidence, sense of self-worth
• Deeper understanding of content
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“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I
understand.” –Chinese Proverb
“Service, combined with learning, adds value to each and transforms both.”
-Honnet & Poulsen (1989)
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Service Learning: appropriate for all
levels and class sizes• Large non-majors (235)• Medium upper level (20)• Small graduate seminar (<10)
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• Large enrollment (230) Environmental Biology classes
• 3 hours required environmental service, reflective paper
• Reinforces course content• Schedule of events with community partners
• Fall 2011: 460 students ~1,580 hours
• Overwhelmingly positive response
Environmental Biology Service-Learning Model
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The Assignmenthttp://www.bio.georgiasouthern.edu/bio-home/leege/serviceinstructions.html
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The Calendar
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The Assignment
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The Assignment
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Environmental Biology Service-Learning Model
• All students can participate -- numerous and diverse opportunities
• Encourages involvement in the local community
• Portrays Georgia Southern students positively to local community
• Provides students with a structured introduction to service
Leege, Lissa M. and Michelle J. Cawthorn. 2008. Environmental service learning reinforces classroom concepts and engenders environmental responsibility. Journal of College Science Teaching 37: 54-58.
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Does it work?
• Pre and post tests in classes with and without service-learning component– Positive impact on worldview– Increase some environmentally sustainable behaviors
– Improve learning outcomes
Cawthorn, Leege and Congdon. 2011. Improving learning outcomes in large environmental science classrooms through short-term service-learning projects. J Environ Stud Sci (2011) 1:75-87
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Finding Community Partners
• Keep America Beautiful• Outreach centers (museum, garden, wildlife center)
• Riverkeeper• Local organic/ecological farms
• Recycling activities at university
• Farmers market
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Making Partnerships work
• Keep task simple and relevant
• Ask partner to provide educational information, training if needed
• Keep it positive• Provide incentive for students to show up (or penalty if they do not!)
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Campus Projects -- Get Pumped:
Tire Inflation Campaign• Mandatory training• Large, busy parking lot (RAC)
• Educate drivers about the benefits of checking tire pressure monthly
• Teach how to find proper pressure, how to use tire gauge, how to pump up tires
• Provide reminder (window cling) and pledge
• Send over to pumping station if tires are low
• Pump tires if needed
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A Bright Idea:Campus Relamping
• Campus Relamping Project– Training sessions– Students teamed up to replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents in all offices and conference rooms on campus and in residence halls
– Provide education, pledge card, change bulb
– Partnership with Georgia Power, Center for Sustainability, Sustainability Manager, and Physical Plant
• Paired with Sustainability Seminar Series speaker: Ed Begley Jr. - provided kickoff and some great publicity
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• Establish need• Simple is best• Partnerships are key• Provide incentives (build environmental service-learning into courses, volunteer credit)
• This generation of students wants to do service
Guiding Principles: Service-Learning for Environmental
Science
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Contact InformationLissa M. Leege
Director, Center for Sustainability &Professor of Biology
Georgia Southern UniversityPO Box 8042912-478-0800