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Grade Level: 9-12
Academic Areas: Art
Duration of service: Year Long
Character Virtues: Caring, Civic Virtue/Citizenship
Service Areas: Education/Tutoring, Environmental, Homeland Security
Service Learning Project:
Students from Ulster County and New York City schools will collaborate
with the Mid-Hudson Service Learning Institute and the Waterways
Project through a distance learning program (Streams On Line)
to display photographs, poetry, stories, and plays about current
environmental issues along the Hudson River. First, students will
photograph environmental projects underway along the Hudson River
and upload them onto the Internet. Then students will write poems,
stories, plays, and critical essays responding to photographs
of issues of environmental concern along the Hudson River. The
students will revise and edit this written material on the Internet
as a part of their collaboration. As a final project, students
will take the written products from the Internet collaboration
and organize them into a publication as well as a gallery exhibit.
Goals and Objectives
Academic
Learning Goal: Students will create visual art (photography and
digital art) depicting environmental projects along the Hudson
River and upload the pictures onto Streams On Line.
Standard: Arts 1.
Learning Goal: Students will respond to uploaded photographs and
images by commenting through expressive and critical writing,
which will be included in a school visual and literary arts publication.
Standard: Arts 3.
Service
Community need: Better community awareness of Hudson River ecology
Possible Community Partners: Esopus Meadows Environmental Center,
Clearwater Sloop, Mid-Hudson Service Learning Institute for Watershed
and Environmental Studies, the Waterways Project of Ten Penny
Players, local libraries, art galleries, urban and rural schools,.
Objective: Students will photograph environmental projects along
the Hudson River.
Objective: Students will comment on photographs by writing poetry,
stories, plays, and critical essays that raise the awareness of
environmental issues along the Hudson River in rural areas and
New York City.
Character
Virtue: Caring
Objective: Students will gain an appreciation of the environmental
concerns and ecological needs of the Hudson River.
Virtue: Civic Virtue and Citizenship
Objective: Students will acknowledge a conscientious connection
to an important local community resource – the Hudson River.
Key Activities
Key Planning Activities
1. Students will research current Hudson River environmental
projects.
2. Teachers will meet to familiarize themselves with the Internet
program, Streams On Line.
3. Teachers and students will familiarize themselves with Ten
Penny Players’ literary arts and picture book publications.
4. Teachers and students will meet with local librarians and participating
galleries to familiarize participants with formats for gallery
exhibition.
Key Service Activities
1. Students will take pictures and write poems, stories, plays
and critical essays responding to the pictures of environmental
projects related to the Hudson River.
2. Students will upload their photographs of the Hudson River
projects and their comments into the distance learning Internet
program, Streams On Line
3. Students will present their work in a publication and a gallery
exhibition.
Key Reflection Activities
1. (oral – caring) Students will discuss how distance learning
works within an urban/rural collaboration and how the project
affected their connection to the Hudson River.
2. (written – civic virtue and citizenship) After the production
of the literary publication and art exhibition, students will
write their thoughts about how the process of creating the works
affected their sense of commitment to their community and environment.
3. (performance) Students will rehearse the presentations of their
poetry, stories, and plays and get feedback from teachers and
other students.
Demonstration Activity
Each participating student will receive copies of the publication
containing their photographs, poetry, plays, stories, and critical
essays. Parents and community members will be invited to the gallery
exhibit of the students’ work.
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