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Infusing character education and
service learning into academics in New
York State *Highlighting Technology* |
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The students will
analyze various Landsat images, maps, orthophotos, and databases concerning local forests and
forested areas . The data collected will be
presented to the town board and fire department for fire management, land use
planning, and monitoring. |
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Courtyard Habitat Restoration * download as a word document * |
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Student participants
will be involved in an ongoing restoration project for the senior high school
courtyard area in an attempt to have it certified by the National Wildlife
Federation as a Schoolyard Habitat site.
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Students will gather
data regarding deer/car collisions from the NYS DMV data files, local
police/trooper reports, by surveying community members. Using the collected data,
students will utilize GIS software to create maps to educate all community
members about high risk deer collision areas on local roadways. |
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Students will
participate in a year long program to locate and map all existing cemeteries
within town boundary limits.
Individual grave markers will then be identified, mapped, digitally
photographed and recorded. |
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Students will
participate in a year long program to locate and map all existing cemeteries
within town boundary limits.
Individual grave markers will then be identified, mapped, digitally
photographed and recorded. |
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Students will
identify the community need to relocate a local High School and create a task
force to address the problem. |
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ArcView technology will be used to assist in the
development of an historic map of the area that integrates student work with
that done by members of the Historical Society. |
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Nature’s Tankers Fly by Night (and Day Too) *download as a word document* |
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The project will
consist of local school students using hand held GPS receivers to locate
ponds, other water sources, and emergency helicopter landing sites. This
information will be used by local fire departments in combating fires, and
rapidly transporting patients to local hospitals. |
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Students will gather
waypoints to define the various recreational areas of the community (Deposit,
NY) and record digital images of these locations. This information will be
overlaid on maps downloaded from internet sources. These maps will become part of brochures
that will be disseminated through the community. |
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Students will complete a year long service project to
better their community environment using a variety of learned technologies
including: ArcView GIS 3.3, GPS technology, and
scientific probes to collect, analyze, interpret, and map data. |
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Students will engage
in a semester long service learning activity focusing on the effects of storm
water runoff on water quality in wetlands.
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Participants will go
into their communities to map the locations of fast food litter, identifying
it by source, while cleaning it up |
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Through GPS tree waypointing, the student participants in the program have
“adopted” trees in the school neighborhood whose
elderly or disabled owners are in need of raking/cleanup assistance. |
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