Green Highways

2. Green Highways Cultivating Fruitful Citizens Molly “Irene” Dodd Pete Farness Silas Pencille Darice Terry

3. Purpose • Exploration of tension in life • Explicitly, the tension between consumerism and stewardship • Fast pace verse slow pace • Related to water and food • Additionally: • Demonstrate activism breeds optimism rather than cynicism • Slower, less harried can be better • Promotes healthy relationships • Engenders lively discourse • Embodiment of democratic ideals

4. Enduring Understandings • New technology presents new possibilities and problems. • Media has different points of view. • Awareness is the first step of activism. • People have always had an impulse to record their experience with nature, whether through artistic expression or scientific inquiry.

5. Form and Function 16 week course • Four Broad Units • Preparation – 3 Weeks • Stewardship – 7 Weeks • Harvest – 4 Weeks • Sharing the Bounty – 2 Weeks • Units centered on responsible life choices using the metaphors learned in the garden • Water • Food • Community Involvement

6. Planting the Garden • During the Preparation unit • Gardening practices • Model the course themes • Provides metaphorical scaffold for students • Supplies for implementation for some newly acquired knowledge • Develops sense of community in the classroom

7. Unit 1: Preparation • Art • Ecological art • English • Information literacy • Life Skills • Preparing the garden • Social Studies • Critical thinking - water

8. Unit 2: Stewardship • Art • Altered Books • English • Land Ethic and Cadillac Desert • Life Skills • Nutrition and Sensitive Gardening • Social Studies • Conservation and Cadillac Desert • Choose Exhibition Content Area Focus!

9. Unit 3: Harvest • Art • Installation • English • Coming Home to Eat and Nature Writing • Life Skills • Food Preservation and Harvest • Social Studies • Field Trip and World Water Issues • Students finalize exhibition form!

10. Unit 4: Sharing the Bounty • Art • Exhibition work • Life Skills • Packing and Marketing • English • Exhibition work • Social Studies • Exhibition work

11. Service Learning and Student Exhibition • Combined effort • Students, Teachers, Community • Students • Exhibit work to community • Teachers • Facilitate student work and community outreach • Community • Supporting student efforts and raising awareness

12. Service Learning and Student Exhibition • Students decided on their content focused • Presented during the service learning community awareness fair • Theme will highlight the tension of consumer life and stewardship of the Earth • Focus on raising community awareness • Develop closer ties to community

13. Content Specific Example: Possible exhibitions for the community awareness fair

14. Art Exhibition

15. English Exhibition

16. Life Skills Exhibition

17. Social Studies Exhibition

18. Our Vision: • Modeled on a farmers market • Garden at the center • Booths set up to engage community • Student presentations raise awareness

19. Conclusion • Lessons will focus on alternative choices • Critical examination of costs and benefits • Many alternatives presented require a shift in priorities • Speed is not a measure of success • Quality of life is attained not given

20. Thank you for your kindness towards us and graciously allowing us into your classrooms.