Category Archives: Community Connections
Prepare and Practice Oral History Interviews
Students define social science and oral history as a class and then work in small groups to prepare for and practice oral history interviews with classmates and teachers. Interview skills include: developing a specific oral history research question, developing and asking interview questions, taking notes, tape-recording or videotaping live interviews, taking photographs of interviewees, and ...
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My Watershed Connections
Students use visual art and social studies skills to develop maps that illustrate their personal values for local watershed resources and ways they use watershed resources in daily life. Students then share their watershed maps with one another through a gallery walk.
This activity was developed as part of the Penobscot River Watershed Education Program, a ...
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Get to Know Your Watershed
Students define the term watershed, and identify their local watershed using Google Earth and US Geological Survey (USGS) topographic maps. Students then identify water bodies and other geographic features, human communities, and habitat types within the boundaries of their watershed.
This activity was developed as part of the Penobscot River Watershed Education Program, a collaborative project led ...
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Get to Know Your Community
Students define the idea of community in small groups and as a class, come up with a working definition for the word, and spend twenty minutes reflecting on what it means to be from the community that they call home.
This activity was developed as part of the Penobscot River Watershed Education Program, a collaborative project led ...
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Cultural and Historical Research
Students visit local museums and historical societies, where they conduct cultural and historical research to broaden and deepen their knowledge of past and present community connections to watershed resources. Students use social science research skills to record their observations and ask questions of local historians.
This activity was developed as part of the Penobscot River Watershed ...
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Conduct Oral History Interviews
Students conduct formal, tape-recorded or videotaped oral history interviews of community members. Exposure to the diversity of interviewees’ experiences, values, and perspectives provides students with a deeper understanding of past and current community values for watershed resources.
This activity was developed as part of the Penobscot River Watershed Education Program, a collaborative project led by Maine ...
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Community Connections to a Maine Watershed
How has my watershed shaped my community? How has my community shaped my watershed? To find out, students investigate local connections to watershed resources.
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