My students need plant cloner systems, hydroponic systems and supplies to fulfill a 4H club student led beach dune restoration partnership with a local city government.
My classroom and club meetings are very active, encouraging students to learn utilizing inquiry and higher level thinking strategies in order to complete both projects and classroom assignments. This project is one that was created by 4H club students wondering how they could help their community.
My students are a mix of general and advanced 8th grade Science students.
This project could reach all 1000+ students through their Science classes or access to our 4H and Flagship club meetings that take place both after school and during student lunches.
Our school has created a Flagship classrooms to careers focus this year, that emphasizes the careers found in the fields of Agronomy, Engineering and Biotechnology. This project would support the Agronomy function as well as support our students in the learning of their positive social impact in the focus area of environmental science.
Our 4H club will act as the leaders of this initiative, as they meet regularly, and had the idea to positively impact the surrounding community and particularly the beach dunes, which are in need of replenishment due to both human and environmental impact. The 4H club's officers will meet with the science classes and present/ recruit other students to assist this project.
My Project
Our students will use these hydroponic and cloning supplies to both start new plants and take cuttings of old plants to clone, and to transplant plants directly into the beach dunes. Our students will not only learn how to grow and clone sea oats and other native plants and grasses to replenish the dunes, they will also learn how important it is that people protect these habitats.
This environmental science service project is not something that our students would have ever had the opportunity to be a part of - this is a completely and totally unheard of project in our middle school building, feeder schools, and surrounding area. After studying appropriate placement and native animals to the dune habitats, our students will have the opportunity to then take the plants to the beach and transplant them into place on the dunes.
This will provide many opportunities that our students have not had the chance to be a part of in their educational careers.
This environmental science service project will provide multiple learning opportunities to our students.
They will use problem solving skills, combined with the learning that has taken place within the classroom to complete the cloning and starting of these natural plants and grasses.
The students will also have to conduct research on the dune habitats in order to learn about appropriate placement of plants so they will not interfere with animals and other organisms.
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