Learn-n-serve Environmental Anthropology Field

Project Proposals

CALL FOR PROJECTS – LEAF SCHOOL WINTER 2010

The Learn-and-serve Environmental Anthropology Field (LEAF) School at Edmonds Community College is seeking environmental, social marketing or cultural service-learning projects for Winter Quarter 2010. We offer our community partners the assistance of a team of approximately 18 - 22 students for up to seven hours per day. In return we ask that you provide appropriate training and equipment for the project, share background information with the students about your organization and facilitate making the service a positive learning experience for the students. To learn more about the LEAF School visit www.edcc.edu/leaf.

The winter quarter section of the LEAF School will meet from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm on Fridays from January 8th through March 12th.

We plan to arrive at field sites for a start time between 8:30 and 9:00 am (depending upon the distance from campus). We would like you to spend at least 15 minutes introducing your organization, discussing safety precautions and the goals for the day. We will plan to break for lunch at noon. We will return to service projects until 3:30 or 4:00 pm (depending on distance from campus) at which time we will break for a reflection activity (about 15 minutes) and field note recording (about 15 minutes). We will depart for campus by 4:00 or 4:30 pm.

Exceptions to the above schedule will occur on the first day of class when we will have a minimum of two hours of introductory material on campus and when we need to break a half hour earlier on a couple of days later in the quarter for quizzes.

We may deviate from the schedule above to include some cultural or learning activities and with advance notice we may be able to accommodate an alternative start and end time.

Priorities:

Whenever possible, we would like to coordinate service projects with cultural learning experiences. Cultural learning experiences might include tours of museums, restoration sites, farms, or businesses; lessons in plant and animal identifications; ethnobotanical activities; nature hikes; tours; presentations by landowners, farmers, foresters, ecologists, tribal leaders or historians; etc. Please include offers or recommendations of guest speakers and cultural events related to your project.

We seek a diversity of environmental service projects, usually the closer to campus the better. We will give priority to diversity, your scheduling needs, cultural learning experiences, and location. If you have more than one project that you’d like to submit it would help us if you prioritized them and gave us options on dates.

Additional Opportunities to work with the LEAF School:

PROVE Alternative High School

We are seeking service-learning projects of a similar nature for the students of PROVE Alternative High School in Lake Stevens in partnership with their ImPROVEment Program, which seeks to involve PROVE students in community-based service-learning. PROVE High School offers a team of 25-30 high school students to assist in service projects of up to four hours a day, from 9 or 9:30am to 12:30 or 1pm, on Thursdays beginning in November. Please email/cc anna.simpson@edcc.edu on project proposals for PROVE High School. These projects are supported by Washington Campus Compact’s Retention Project grant to the LEAF School.

Tulalip Tourism

We will be offering a continuation of our service-learning class on the Tulalip Reservation that has been exploring cultural, agricultural and ecological tourism for the tribe. Students are preparing business proposals and plans for tribal tourism activities. LEAF School community partners are invited to submit their ideas for possible collaboration.

Washington Watershed Environmental Education Teacher Training

LEAF School community partners are invited to join us for two-day marine based workshops aboard the Indigo, a 65-foot vessel operated by our partner, Service, Education and Adventure. With funding from NOAA’s B-WET program we are offering a series of twelve workshops on the development of meaningful watershed education experiences for K-12 teachers around the state of Washington. Community partners can participate in a variety of ways:

Lead 30 - 45 minute watershed-based learning rotations aboard the boat for teachers;
Host a two-hour service project, accessible by water;
Join the teachers to help plan collaborative service-learning projects as part of meaningful watershed educational experiences.

Upcoming marine workshops will be:

Nov. 7-8 for Tacoma area school districts with Foss Waterway Seaport
Nov. 14-15 for Suquamish HS/North Kitsap at Suquamish
Dec. 5-6 for Seattle School Districts at Shilshoe
March 20-21 for Port Townsend area teachers
April 17-18 for Snohomish County teachers at Everett
May 15-16 for South Snohomish County teachers at Edmonds

Proposal Form:

Please include the following information in your requests. Please submit the requests to tmurphy@edcc.edu and anna.simpson@edcc.edu via email by noon on Monday, November 30th. Proposals for the PROVE and B-WET projects should be submitted at least two weeks before the proposed activity.

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