Last Child in the Woods (Conservation: Conflict or Coexistence?

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Project Goals:
To foster environmental stewardship in students
To immerse students in the real world career of field biology
To teach students about ecosystems through experiential visits to the different ecosystems
in San Diego County
To bring awareness about local environmental concerns to students and the entire
HTHCV community through our Festival Exhibition
Essential questions:
1. Is it important to preserve and protect various ecosystems in San Diego County?
2. How are people impacting plants and animals in San Diego County?
3. What can we do to promote environmental stewardship within and beyond San Diego
County?
Products
1. Ecosystem specific vegetation and wildlife KEYRING Field Guides (to be used in the
field with pictures and key characteristic descriptors)
2. Recorded sounds of your field work and your particular ecosystem
3. Vegetation plot and wildlife observational analysis
4. Photo Gallery: three framed high quality photos (1 plant, 1 animal, and 1 landscape shot)
Curriculum topics
Multiple Species Conservation Program (MSCP)
Biodiversity
Ecosystem-based science and management
Native and non-native species and identification
Photography

Last Child in the Woods (Conservation: Conflict or Coexistence?)
Project Timeline
Week Topics
Week 1: January 21-25 -No school Monday MLK Day
-Project launch and presentation of ecosystems/predators
-Form groups and discuss project jobs
-Create vegetation and animal field guides
-Mr. Nick is gone Friday
Week 2: January 28-Feb. 1 -Tuesday: Groups 1/2 fieldwork expedition
-Hidden Heroes Exhibition (Wednesday Jan. 30
th
)!
-Thursday: Groups 3/4 fieldwork expedition
-Friday: Groups 5/6 fieldwork expedition
*After your day in the field, please enter vegetation and
observational data into our Google spreadsheets and download
all images, videos, sound clips to your groups folder on the
hard drive.
Week 3: February 4-8 -Monday: Groups 7/8 fieldwork expedition
-Tuesday: Groups 9/10
-Wednesday: Groups 11/12
-Thursday: Groups 13/14 fieldwork expedition
-Friday: Groups 15
*After your day in the field, please enter vegetation and
observational data into our Google spreadsheets and download
all images, videos, sound clips to your groups folder on the
hard drive.
Week 4: February 11-15 -Peer evaluations round one
-Interview Day (Wednesday February 13
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periods 1-3)
-Finalize Ocean Institute adventure schedule
-College Day (Thursday February 14
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)
Week 5: February 18-22 -No school Monday
-Photos due to Angie this weekpdf version
-SLC half days (Wednesday-Friday)
Week 6: February 25-March 1 -Staff Day (Monday February 25
th
)
-Ocean Institute adventure (Tuesday/Wednesday)!!!
-Begin vegetation and observational analysis
-Video and sound in CD due to Angie
Week 7: March 4-8 -Finish vegetation and observational analysis
-Edit images, videos, and sound clips
- Begin fieldwork and ecosystem re-creation for Festival del
Sol
Week 8: March 11-15 -Continue fieldwork and ecosystem re-creation for Festival del
Sol
-Finalize all project products and prepare rooms
Week 9: March 18-22 -* Thursday March 21
st
Festival del Sol Exhibition!!!
-Peer evaluations second (and final) round
-Spring Break!
Last Child in the Woods (Conservation: Conflict or Coexistence?)
Name:_____________________
Note: SAVE THIS DOCUMENT! Please You will receive points for saving this and turning it
in to your teachers for your grade.
You will be working in a group of three and collaborating with your peers on this project, but
your grade will be individual. Please use each other as resources and work together to create the
best products possible. If you finish early, help your group. Five points will be deducted from
your personal grade each time I ask you to help your busy looking group and you respond with
But my parts done! I know, but the project is not done. If you find yourself with spare time,
you are still a part of a group that will be presenting a
Individual Grade Sheets
_____ /10 Attending a field visit
_____/5 Turned in grade sheet on exhibition day
_____ /45 Taking the lead on completion of one of the project products to specifications
Sounds and video recorded and saved on a CD for Angie by ______
Photos centered, focused, and take into account discussion notes on how to take nature
photography then saved as jpgs and emailed to Angie before exhibition as well as
making/ building the mounting/ frame
Vegetation plot poster meets rubric requirement (coming in Nicks class)
Wildlife observational analysis poster meets requirement (coming in Nicks class)
_____/30 Exhibition set-up & participation (peer, teacher and self evaluation from critique
session 1 & 2)
_____ /10 Exhibition attendance (on time for your shift)

Total points ______/100

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