Teachers: Alli Kludt, Tiffany Florio, & Jordan Fields
Grade & Subject: 3rd Grade
School: High Tech Elementary
In this project, students visited various community partners including Petco Park, Olivewood Gardens and the San Diego Zoo to learn about their sustainable practices. Their learning included the importance of sustainability, waste management, conservation, and renewable energy. The two essential questions we aimed to answer through this project were: How can field trips to sustainable locations inspire others to enjoy and protect San Diego? How has learning about sustainability inspired you to be more sustainable in your everyday life? In our venture to be inspired, we teamed up with local non-profit Cans4Books to do a neighborhood clean-up at NTC Park. As a product, students made travel brochures in small groups featuring a geographical map of San Diego with the sustainable places visited and informational writing on how each practices sustainability and why they’d be a fun place to visit when in San Diego.
Teacher Reflection
One main takeaway from this project was the importance of the fieldwork basis of the project. It is much easier to teach a project from your own classroom and try to impart the “why” onto your students by bringing all of the learning to them, yet much more challenging (and ultimately rewarding) to bring students out into the community and provide real world examples of existing practices in the community where the “why” is more easily understood and students can learn through experience. This project held so much meaning for students because they were able to learn by seeing and doing as well as interacting with local experts and community members. Additionally, because they were able to see a different side of well-known locations around San Diego through the theme of sustainability.
—Alli Kludt
Student reflection
It is important to be sustainable to help our earth. One way you can be sustainable is to reuse things like recycling old tires for plant pots.
—Jason V.
On our trip to Petco Park, we took the trolley to save on gas and learned about their solar panels that are the largest in MLB. They also have artificial grass to save water. You can go there to watch baseball and help the earth too!
—Zia H.
Teachers: Alli Kludt, Tiffany Florio, & Jordan Fields
Grade & Subject: 3rd Grade
School: High Tech Elementary
In this project, students visited various community partners including Petco Park, Olivewood Gardens and the San Diego Zoo to learn about their sustainable practices. Their learning included the importance of sustainability, waste management, conservation, and renewable energy. The two essential questions we aimed to answer through this project were: How can field trips to sustainable locations inspire others to enjoy and protect San Diego? How has learning about sustainability inspired you to be more sustainable in your everyday life? In our venture to be inspired, we teamed up with local non-profit Cans4Books to do a neighborhood clean-up at NTC Park. As a product, students made travel brochures in small groups featuring a geographical map of San Diego with the sustainable places visited and informational writing on how each practices sustainability and why they’d be a fun place to visit when in San Diego.
Teacher Reflection
One main takeaway from this project was the importance of the fieldwork basis of the project. It is much easier to teach a project from your own classroom and try to impart the “why” onto your students by bringing all of the learning to them, yet much more challenging (and ultimately rewarding) to bring students out into the community and provide real world examples of existing practices in the community where the “why” is more easily understood and students can learn through experience. This project held so much meaning for students because they were able to learn by seeing and doing as well as interacting with local experts and community members. Additionally, because they were able to see a different side of well-known locations around San Diego through the theme of sustainability.
—Alli Kludt
Student reflection
It is important to be sustainable to help our earth. One way you can be sustainable is to reuse things like recycling old tires for plant pots.
—Jason V.
On our trip to Petco Park, we took the trolley to save on gas and learned about their solar panels that are the largest in MLB. They also have artificial grass to save water. You can go there to watch baseball and help the earth too!
—Zia H.
