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