UCLA Project ISSUES
What?
- Brief description--purpose, goals etc.
- Relationship to CSP/UCLA Science Project
- This year's institute--where it was held, who attended
- Instructional resources used and/or developed
Description of institute
- Why/how it was developed
- Program
- Who's it for? Benefits to teachers etc.
- Future institutes. How to get involved. Links to calendar pages etc.
Schedule for 1997 Institute
- Should we summarize or post as is?
- Photos and anecdotes on facilitators, participants, presenters
- Include photos (We have hundreds!)
Instructional Strategies for studying issues
- Exploring City Sites
- Identifying issues
- Understanding the science behind the issues
- Debating the issues
Sources of urban environmental issues and examples in LA
- Vanishing Wetlands
- Ballona Wetlands (in preparation)
- Taming City Rivers
- The LA River Story
- Sepulveda Basin (in preparation)
- Tujunga wash (in preparation)
- Finding Room for Waste
- Los Angeles Landfills
- Lopez Canyon
- Sunshine Canyon (in preparation)
- Oceans as Dumping Grounds
- Life's A Beach
- Endangered Species
- Butterfly populations (in preparation)
Urban Water Sources - Bringing Water to Los Angeles
- Getting Healthy Foods to Disadvantaged Populations
- Planting the Seeds of Nutirion (in preparation)
The Science Behind the Issues--lessons
- Habitat explorations
- Soil science
- Marine biology
- No Job Too Large: Microbiology activities
- Nutritional explorations
- Under the Blanket: Air pollution
- Under the Kitchen Sink
- (need names of other mini-institutes)