Improving Water Quality in the Chesapeake Watershed

Introduction

You are a part of a global effort to increase access to education and empower students through “open pedagogy.”  Open pedagogy is a “free access” educational practice that places you – the student – at the center of your own learning process in a more engaging, collaborative learning environment.  The ultimate purpose of this effort is to achieve greater social justice in our community in which the work can be freely shared with the broader community.  This is a renewable assignment that is designed to enable you to become an agent of change in your community through the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  For this work, you will integrate the disciplines of Communication and Science Education to achieve SDG #6: Clean Water and Sanitation.   

Learning Objectives

This is an interdisciplinary service learning assignment in which you will be required to engage in a hands-on experience outside of the classroom.

Purpose/Rationale

This active learning practice is designed to improve your academic skills, increase community connections, and improve water standards for our community.

Instructions

Survey Lesson:

For this assignment, you will develop several questions to survey at least ten persons about clean water.   You can ask about the importance of clean water, clean water quality, clean water issues or how to protect clean water.   You can use face to face interviews or social media tools such as Survey Monkey, Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook.   You will present your findings to the class in a written form or as bar, line, or pie graphs.

Video/ Pamphlet Lesson:

For this assignment, you will focus on a particular issue about clean water such as local drinking water quality, pending clean water issues or how students can promote clean water.  Your presentation of your research could be a video or pamphlet showing clean water issues as well as one page fact sheet about clean water issues.

Video link for lesson:

http://faculty.montgomerycollege.edu/gbarron2/FiveMinuteProfDev/mbjohnson/Assignment/