Introduction
Introduction
After a long day of cutting the grass and helping your parents clean up the yard, all you want to do on the hot Saturday is take a dip in the city pool to cool off and have fun with your friends. So you and your best friend Bill gather up the neighborhood kids and head out to the city park. You don’t live far from the park so everyone decides to walk or ride their bikes. On the way there you notice all the trash on the side of the road and even see someone through their old Mr. Freeze Large Gulp right out the window. Stacy, your neighbor, comments on how rude it was; “they didn’t even try to find a trash can!” After getting to the park, there is even more cups and plates from a kids birthday party yesterday and only one, overflowing, trash can in site. The final straw is when everyone gets to the pool and see more trash and a local food truck who is leaking a mysterious liquid into the pool. “This place needs to get cleaned up! It’s never been this bad!” exclaimed John. Remembering that Mrs. Richardson had just thought them about humans carbon footprints, the group of friends decided to ask her on Monday what they could do.
Task
The Task
You and your friends, from instructions from your teacher, are to clean up the local park! Using this WebQuest, you can explore the different ways that humans effect the earth. Explore ways to help stop the negative effects humans have on the earth and ways to we can help stabilize the ecosystem.
- Identify the bad effects humans have.
- Identify ways we can make it better.
- And place in motions, ways that we can maintain a health earth.
- What difference can one person make?
- What difference can a whole community make?
- What programs are already available?
- What programs can a city put in place to make it better?
Process
The Process
- Identify how humans are effecting parks and other natural areas. Are they good or bad effects?
- Find 3 solutions to turn harmful habits into helpful habits.
- Find 3 helpful habits and how to make them better.
- Identify safe plants for a park. Which are could for stopping erosion in high volume water ways or provide shade on hot days?
- Identify dangerous plants. Which plants are creating a problem for keeping the park clean?
- Find ways to maintain the beauty and health of the City Park and pool.
- Put your efforts into effect! Go out and clean a local and natural area that needs your help!
- Contact your City Hall and ask for a community wide clean up day.