Going+Green



The science department (through Kelly Royal and Kyle Jones) developed a new course over the summer called Going Green: Advocating for the Earth. The end result was a 1:1 learning environment that uses Moodle as the on-line enviornment. Going Green centers around applying a variety of sciences as well as reasoning skills to the understanding of environmental issues. Because this is a quickly evolving field, students use an on-line text book, news sites, and a variety of other sources to learn content and create a variety of artifacts. Everyweek students find current event articles, determine the validity of the article, and repond with their thoughts. The students then read and respond to each others articles. Once a week, we have a face to face discussion over the current topics.



The students use the latest data and media events to discuss how humans impact the environment. As a class they discuss how we manipulate our environment in terms of postives and negatives. Then discusses how to reverse our negative actions. Then we discuss each issue from a government, community, and individual perspective. The class is nearly paperless. The only paper that is used is for laboratory activities.

Click the link to see the moodle: Going Green