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The Land Use Project - An integrated online learning experience on environmental issues
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The Audience
Upper elementary and middle school students will participate in a five-week authentic project based online learning experiences that:
- Integrates benchmarks from different content areas by addressing the Science, Social Studies and Language Arts Standards that address human interaction with the environment, analyzing data, developing public policy, inquiry and participating in public discourse and decision making, and
- Addresses many of the Michigan Educational Technology Standards by requiring the use of technology for conducting research, communicating and solving problems.
The Project
Between January 12 and March 25 students participating in the LandUse project, will:
- Be involved in a WebQuest that guides them through a process for conducting research and writing good land use policies that will increase the quality of life in their community so that young people will stay into adulthood.
- Develop and test hypotheses by brain storming with their peers, interviewing land use experts via videoconference, surveying those impacted by their proposals, and researching their ideas.
- Synthesize their research and develop formal proposals,
- Present their proposals to the Land Use experts who will provide a critique, for possible presentations to the students’ local municipalities.
The updated LandUse WebQuest - click HERE
Previous presentations
Contacts
Mike Souden, Project Coordinator, Oakland Schools
Mike.Souden@Oakland.k12.mi.us
248.209.2287
Charlotte Burckhardt, Principal Planner, Land Use and Zoning – Oakland County Government
burckhardtc@oakgov.com
248.858.5438
Larry Falardeau, Principal Planner, Envronmental Stewardship Program – Oakland County Government
falardeaul@oakgov.com
248.858.5438
Jim Meenahan, Consultant, Eco-Ethics
jmeenahan@sbcglobal.net
248.705.1936
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Project Activity Schedule
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Timeline of Project Activities
- January 12 - project officially begins, the students may begin earlier.
Use the Discussion Board to ask questions at any time.
- January 21 and 22 - students ask questions of the Land Use experts, based on their hypothesis.
- February 9 - students post outlines of their project on the
LandUse Blog.
The Experts and other students critique the outlines within the week following the postings. - March 23 and 25 - students present their final project to the Experts and the experts critique their proposals.
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