The citizen science initiative (CSI) is designed to provide service learning experiences to students participating in the STEM elementary education program during their science (SCE4310) and social studies (SSE4113) courses. Both courses highlight teaching social justice issues such as socio-scientific issues, citizen science, and environmental stewardship. Through weekly service learning opportunities, students will observe, learn, practice, and reflect on teaching social justice issues.

1. Citizenship Education
for a
Sustainable Future
Dr. Karen Evans & Dr. John Pecore
Paul Glass, Kandace Johnson, Latricia Laurant,
Heather McLeod, Zachary Post, KaylaWilliams

2. What is “Citizenship
Education for a
Sustainable Future”?

3. Education Isn’t Just Facts and Figures
The learning needed to maintain and improve our quality of
life and the quality of life for generations to come.

4. How Can It Be Taught?
• Natural Systems
• Economic Systems
• Social Systems
• Political Systems

5. Another Way Of Looking At It
The role of values
within each system.

6. What were the goals?

7. The Goals
▪ For us, the students.
▪ For the children and classrooms we presented with.
▪ For the Mess Hall and Historic PensacolaVillage.

8. What did we actually do?

9. The Process
• Presentation by
faculty members
• Individual readings
Learn and Dissect
the Material
• Mess Hall
• Historic Pensacola
Village
Split intoTwo
Teams • Within groups,
decide grades,
specific subjects.
• Partner with schools.
Prepare and
Present Lessons
• Individually
• Within the group
• Through this
presentation
Critically Reflect

10. What was gained?

11. HIP Addressed
▪ Learning Communities
▪ CollaborativeAssignments
▪ Service Learning, Community Based Learning

12. Learning Communities
Zachary Post

13. How It Worked
▪ If your birthday is January, February, March: Back Left
▪ If your birthday is May, April, June: Back Right
▪ If your birthday is July, August, September: Front Left
▪ If you birthday is October, November, December: Front
Right

14. How It Worked
Determine
a Problem
• E.g., John Levine and issue of hunger.
Identify
Resources
• Cafeteria food going to waste.
Develop a
Plan
• Contact
authority
powers.

15. What I Did
▪ Brentwood Elementary School
▪ 5th Grade Gifted
▪ Benchmark: Identify ways good citizens go beyond basic civic and
political responsibilities to improve government and society.
▪Why?
▪How?

16. Learning Communities
▪ Across disciplines
▪ Across roles
▪ Across perspectives

17. What Did I Gain?
▪ Appreciation for other subjects
▪ Practical experience
▪ Interaction outside of the classroom

18. Collaborative Assignments
and Projects
Paul Glass

19. NASA Budget Relative to Federal

20. Hubble Space Telescope

21. Tax Receipt

22. NASA Budget Relative to Federal

25. What I Did
▪ University ofWest Florida
▪ Acting the part of high school students
▪ Benchmark: Analyze the impact of citizen participation as a means of
achieving political and social change.
▪E.g., Space Race

26. Collaborative Assignments and Projects
▪ Collaborating with peers
▪ Collaborating with faculty
▪ Collaborating with community partners

27. What Did I Gain?
▪ Networking potential
▪ Professional connections with current/future
counterparts
▪ Self reflection

28. Service Learning and
Community-Based Learning
Laricia Laurant

29. How It Worked
How does the exploration of these artifacts
emphasize responsible citizenship?

30. What I Did
▪ Hobbs Middle School
▪ 7th Grade Social Studies
▪ Benchmark: Using civil rights as a platform to underscore the
importance of community action to bring about change.
– Making decisions for one’s self verse making decisions for others
– Tying the historical to the present
– Examining the present and looking to the future

31. Service Learning and Community-Based Learning
▪ Mess Hall
▪ Historic PensacolaVillage
▪ Local schools (Brentwood, Hobbs)

32. What Did I Gain?
▪ Community partners
▪ Input from primary and secondary teachers
▪ Working directly with actual children

33. Benefits to Faculty,
University, and Community
Dr. Karen Evans

34. Opportunities Presented
▪ Explore integration of Science and Social Studies disciplines
▪ Focus social justice issues in Science and Citizenship
▪ Enhance connections with local agencies
▪ To foster critical thinking and discussions outside of coursework
▪ To engage in service learning for faculty as well as students

35. Questions?