Civic Science: Inquiry to Action

Institute Overview: This 6-day (15 hour) online institute will enhance participants’ understanding of project-based learning and place-based education, principles and practices within the context of your school community modeling CELF’s Inquiry to Action Framework.

Audience: Teachers of Grades 5 – 12 (science, STEAM, health, social studies, civics)

Full Group Virtual Learning and Facilitated Lesson Planning: Follow the process of Inquiry to Action to develop your own project implementation planner to bring into your classroom or virtual experience for your students.

Highlights:

• Field Expert Guest Speakers: Lynne Cherry, Author and Founder of Young Voices for the Planet
• Luz Guel, Project Coordinator, Community Engagement Core, The Transdisciplinary Center on Early Environmental Exposures, Department of Population Health Science and Policy  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Case studies from master teachers in the field sharing student action projects and applications to teaching and learning

Self- Paced activities accessible through (presented as a Tool Kit) will include: 

• Flipgrid introductions & pre reading assignments
• Mapping place and your community
• Completion of the Inquiry to Action framework
• CELF facilitated project planning work time

Takeaways: 

• Complete a place-based/project-based lesson or unit using a local civic science topic such as air quality, water quality, pollinators, or soil quality.
• Learn about a variety of data collection methods, crowdsourcing tools and monitoring technology and how to use them with your students
• Design a plan to empower student action at your school
• Increase knowledge of project-based learning through Civic Science
• Increase student advocacy for healthy neighborhoods