![]() Middle and high school students participated in the second year of the Pono Fishing curricula and service learning focused on sustainable traditional Hawaiian fishing practices. ![]() From November 2019 to October 2020, with funding from Hawaii B-WET, Malama Pupukea-Waimea taught marine science through hands-on lessons and activities to 268 students in fourth through 12th grade on Oahu's North Shore at Sharks Cove. In Hawaiian, the phrase “ Ka Papa Kai” has two meanings: it can translate into both “the seaside class” and “the reef of the sea.” The Ka Papa Kai offsite link project from Malama Pupukea-Waimea invokes the kaona (hidden meaning) of the phrase: learning about the sea while being at the sea. ‘Classroom without walls’ fosters traditional, sustainable environmental practices in Hawaii This project will be continuing during the 2021-2022 school year, where it will be expanding to reach a new audience in Burnham Park. In a new “Environmental Justice Stories” event hosted by CIMBY, students gained an understanding of how environmental injustice issues transcend local and national scales and learned how community activists confront them. Students completed a range of stewardship activities, such as removing invasive species, testing water quality, and analyzing plant diversity. Throughout the duration of their Great Lakes B-WET grant, CIMBY developed five new service-learning extensions focused on wildlife biodiversity, plant biodiversity, oak ecosystems, water quality testing, and the carbon cycle to complement the year-long Chicago Public School’s biology course. CIMBY works with students in generally underserved communities in Chicago and northwest Indiana, with students from low-income families making up 86% of the student population at CIMBY’s participating Chicago public high schools. Additionally, CIMBY provided professional development for 36 teachers to incorporate environmental education lessons into their classrooms. With support from the Great Lakes B-WET program, students participated in activities to protect and restore local native ecosystems and explored real-life applications of their classroom science lessons. The Calumet Is My Back Yard (CIMBY) program from the Board of Education of the City of Chicago reached over 1,000 high school students from the south side of Chicago during the 2019-2020 school year. ![]() The region along the Calumet River in Illinois and Indiana may be industrialized, but that doesn’t mean it can’t provide enriching outdoor STEM experiences for local students.
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