Module 6
Community Service Project
Purpose & Background:
A community service project should be the culminating activity of the
Nature's Partner's experience. This service project should provide an
opportunity for the youth to put into practice many of the concepts they
have learned over the past weeks. Most importantly, it should be conceived
and developed by the participants. There are numerous possibilities:
- Build on the project tackled in the previous module, by adding additional
gardens and/or establishing
nesting
sites for native bees.
- Use the photos from the field trip to create a public display
and information sheet about optimum habitat for pollinators, native
plants and pollinator
friendly gardening, as well as endangered natural habitat, to
increase public awareness of the importance of pollinators and how
to protect
them.
- Start a Bee-friendly to Pollinators campaign through a local
supermarket or farmers market by creating signs to indicate which produce
and
food products depend on pollinators and preparing a handout or
brochure on
ways to create pollinator-friendly landscaping.
- Demonstrate how to plant a pollinator-friendly garden using
native plants.
- Present activities from the curriculum in schools, camps, or after
school programs.
- Create skit to share with others.
- Have an information booth at a farmers market, community
day, county fair, nursery, science fair or other suitable locations/events.
- Create a story book to share with others.
People and businesses in the community can be recruited to share their
expertise, donate supplies and materials, or provide
a site for a display or demonstration. The group may want to do more
than
one
type
of project.
If so, make sure they do not take on more than they
can successfully accomplish and that you can support. Involving the
parents
and families of the participants as well as other interested
individuals
would
be ideal.
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