THE ISLAND CHALLENGE

Rob GreenbergChapel Hill High School

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rgreenberg@chccs.k12.nc.us

A multidisciplinary endeavor that provides opportunities for

collaboration, critical and creative thinking and sharingKnowledge with the

community

COACHING STUDENTS• cooperative team• engage in ongoing discussions• problem-solving • critical thinking • address important concepts and issues.• use imagination• develop an understanding of the concept

of sustainability and its applications in many areas of life.

• possible course of study in college

TIME COMMITMENT:

requires some work during lunch, before school or after school - class time alone might not be enough to achieve excellence, which is your goal.

Regular communication with group members is important

ENGAGED IN VARIOUS DISCIPLINES

Land use and managementRenewable energyCivil Engineering

ArchitectureLandscape design

TransportationAgriculture

CartographyConservation

LEED (Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design)

decision-making based on real geologic, hydrologic, weather, climate and ocean data

using human history to guide decisions (i.e. “Collapse” by Jared Diamond)

PROVIDED BY TEACHER:

• entire project can be viewed from web site• bound hard copies of entire project including rubrics in classroom• links to useful web sites for each “category”• paper for large maps• scheduled guest presenters• organizational system for safe storage completed “benchmarks”

• “limited” class set of drawing supplies

EACH GROUP PROVIDES ITS OWN:

• drawing kit (markers, pens, colored pencils, erasers, templates, etc.)

• tri-fold display board

PRESENT PROJECT TO COMMUNITY AT EARTH DAY EVENT IN APRIL

engage the general public in a talk about your island using visuals:

• tri-fold display board (with final copies of research posted)• small topographic map of natural island• large detailed map of your developed island• detailed map key• three-dimensional model that demonstrates “green design”• restaurant or diner menu featuring locally-grown foods

START-UP

• Students will work in cooperative groups of three to four. • Each group will have one student who at the very least is a fair to good “artist.”• Each group chooses their top five choices from the list of world’s islands. Your group will be assigned one of your five choices *

•* this is where I am at right now!!

NORTH ATLANTIC SOUTH ATLANTIC

Azores Falkland IslandsCanary Islands AscensionCape Breton Islands St. HelenaFaeroe Islands Tristan de CuhnaMadeira Islands South Sandwich IslandsShetland Islands South GeorgiaChannel Islands (in English Channel)Svalbard

CARRIBBEAN SEA MEDITTERANEAN SEABahamas Balearic Islands (Mallorca)Cayman Islands Aegean Sea IslandsTrinidad Aeolian IslandsMartinique MaltaGuadeloupe PanteleriaGrenadaVirgin Islands SOUTH PACIFIC OCEANAntigua Easter Island (Isla de Pascua)St. Thomas Pitcairn IslandSt. Croix Galapagos Islands

INDIAN OCEAN OCEANIAMaldives FijiSeychelles TahitiMauritius SamoaChristmas Island Cook IslandAndaman & Nicobar Islands Tonga IslandsChagos Archipelago TahitiTimor New CaledoniaComoros Soloman IslandsMollucas French Polynesia JavaSumatra

NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN

Marshall IslandsPhillipinesJapan (smaller islands – not main island)MicronesiaNorthern Mariana IslandsQueen Charlotte IslandsAleutian IslandsIsla SocorroIsla Maria MadreMagdelenaClofasChannel Islands (off California coast)

SEEDS OF

THEISLANDCHALLENGE

EVOLUTION OF AN IDEA

Sandbox Geoscience

Paradise Project

Barrier Island Project

Island Project *2.0

Island Project *XP“Island Challenge”

.

The Roots of

the Island

Project

CONTENT TAUGHT IN PREPARATION

Topography and topographic mapsLandform features

Plate tectonicsGeology and geologic history

Weather and climateOceanography

HydrologyNatural resources

TASA program on a set of Imac computers in our school has an

excellent interactive program for topographic maps

Google SketchUp