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Educating through Art, Ecology, and Ethical Care: Creating Responsible Citizenship in the Community

Award Winner

Recipient of the 2018 Community Engagement Celebration Day Service-Learning/Live Client Project Award

Presentation Type

Tri-fold Display (Electronic Copy Not Available)

Keywords

Art in education; Nature conservation--Study and teaching (Middle school); Art teachers--Training of--Iowa--Cedar Falls;

Project Summary

Preservice art teachers worked with the nature reserve staff to explore ways to teach junior high students to develop connections to their local land and to foster ethical care for it through reflective projects within their classroom and through an outdoor excursion in nature. The groups worked together to design, create, and disseminate nature inspired rain barrels into the community to raise money and simultaneously to educate others on storm water runoff and water sustainability. The students and professor worked to explore ways service learning could be guided as personally meaningful way to teach about STEAM education at a junior high level, and how this can work to further improve acts of responsible citizenship towards sustainability in one’s community.

Start Date

19-4-2018 9:00 AM

End Date

19-4-2018 10:30 AM

Event Host

UNI Office of Undergraduate Studies

Department/Center/Organization

Hartman Nature Reserve/ Holmes Junior High

Award Category

Sustainability and Environmental Awareness Award (Theme-Based)

Award Category

Service Learning/Live Client Project Award (Curricular)

Electronic copy is not available through UNI ScholarWorks.

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Apr 19th, 9:00 AM Apr 19th, 10:30 AM

Educating through Art, Ecology, and Ethical Care: Creating Responsible Citizenship in the Community

Preservice art teachers worked with the nature reserve staff to explore ways to teach junior high students to develop connections to their local land and to foster ethical care for it through reflective projects within their classroom and through an outdoor excursion in nature. The groups worked together to design, create, and disseminate nature inspired rain barrels into the community to raise money and simultaneously to educate others on storm water runoff and water sustainability. The students and professor worked to explore ways service learning could be guided as personally meaningful way to teach about STEAM education at a junior high level, and how this can work to further improve acts of responsible citizenship towards sustainability in one’s community.