Presented by: Daniel Marlowe Advised by: Donna Chang (First ...
Presented by: Daniel Marlowe Advised by: Donna Chang (First ...
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<strong>Presented</strong> <strong>by</strong>: <strong>Daniel</strong> <strong>Marlowe</strong><br />
<strong>Advised</strong> <strong>by</strong>: <strong>Donna</strong> <strong>Chang</strong> (<strong>First</strong> Creek Middle School),<br />
Lia Wetzstein and Joyce Dinglasan‐Panlilio (UWT)
• Senior Seminar Project<br />
• Service learning<br />
• Focused on <strong>First</strong> Creek
• History<br />
• Urbanization
• Bring together students and local citizens in<br />
expanded monitoring of <strong>First</strong> Creek<br />
• Improve educational experience for middle<br />
school and college students.<br />
• Improve public's understanding and<br />
engagement
• Unite students and local citizens in expanded<br />
monitoring of <strong>First</strong> Creek<br />
• Water testing<br />
• Public accessible<br />
website<br />
▪ <strong>First</strong>creekstewards.org
Concentration of Nitrate (mg/L)<br />
Nitrate Concentrations on Selected Sampling Dates<br />
• Graphs<br />
2.5<br />
2<br />
1.5<br />
1<br />
0.5<br />
0<br />
Site 1<br />
(Source)<br />
Site 2<br />
(Fairbanks)<br />
Site3<br />
(34th st)<br />
Sample Nov 1, 2010<br />
Sample Jan 17, 2011<br />
Sample Nov 11, 2011
• Improve educational experience for middle<br />
school and college students.<br />
• Increase interest in science field<br />
• Increase chance of attending college
• UW Tacoma lab fieldtrips for <strong>First</strong> Creek Middle<br />
School students<br />
• Work side <strong>by</strong> side with UWT students and faculty
• Environmental Chemistry Class
• Project coordinator<br />
• Club meetings<br />
• Community events<br />
• Extracurricular events<br />
• Relationship with students
• Surveys<br />
• Events<br />
• Classroom
“…it showed me that in doing<br />
community service you do get<br />
something… The truth that I’ve never<br />
believed that every little thing you do<br />
counts and your reward is the<br />
community comes a little closer.”<br />
“…I think that it is important<br />
to do community service<br />
because it shows the<br />
community that you care.”
• Improve public's understanding and<br />
engagement<br />
• Local environmental issues<br />
• Stewardship
• Community events<br />
• Restoration projects<br />
▪ garbage collection<br />
▪ invasive plant<br />
removal and planting<br />
of native plants<br />
▪ Teaching about water<br />
monitoring
• Over 15,000 sq. ft. of land being restored<br />
• Over 1,000 native plants planted<br />
• Several tons of garbage removed<br />
• 3700 hours of out‐of‐classroom student<br />
engagement<br />
• 500+ hours of community volunteer hours
• Expanded water sampling<br />
• Amphibian Monitoring<br />
• Plot Monitoring<br />
• Keeping it going<br />
• Long term effects<br />
• Swan creek
• <strong>Presented</strong> at four national level service learning<br />
conferences<br />
• example of an exceptional K‐12 and university<br />
level partnership project<br />
• presented in March 2011 at the Joint WSTA and E3<br />
state conference.<br />
• Awards/grants received.
• Russell Family Foundation<br />
• City of Tacoma<br />
• Greater Tacoma Community Foundation<br />
• UWT Founders Endowment<br />
• Puyallup Tribe<br />
• Youth Service of America<br />
• Washington Conservation corps<br />
• Forterra (Formerly Cascade Land Conservancy)<br />
• AmeriCorp<br />
• Tacoma School District
• Lia Wetzstein<br />
• Dr. Joyce Dinglasan‐Panlilio<br />
• <strong>Donna</strong> <strong>Chang</strong><br />
• Jennifer <strong>Chang</strong>
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