Community Clean Up (Groups)

1.

Start with Community walk around polluted areas (Parent volunteers or EA)

Concerns from students and community members

Interviews with parents or others in the community

Start with classroom based research

Online articles

Local news reports

Can lead to letters written to city officials

Find places they can clean up

Students find other methods to prevent pollution in their daily lives

Guest speakers / field trips

2.

Classroom provocations / discussion about different pollution issues

Can let the class choose their own methods of helping their community, either from provocations or from their own ideas