The preparation section was awful. First, I found out that not all the pictures for the cards weren't printed out. I had to go to the main office to re-print them. Then, I realized that I didn't have an adaptor for my laptop and had to talk to Paul to find one. I was told Mrs. Cancino had one and I asked her to borrow it. She needed it for her class, so we both worked to dig out a second one to use. I plugged it into my laptop and asked for help in the card assembly and banner mounting. Ms. Melogno said that I was around 5 min. late for presentation and she let the people in. I just stood at the front as though there wasn't any chaos beforehand and delivered my lesson.
The lecture went without incident until I reached 11 o' clock. I was reminded by my teacher that I had to stop at 12:10 and remembered that I had only covered 2 answers of my 3. Once the students came back in, I was still upset over being docked a letter grade for being late, but didn't show it. I decided to continue the lesson as planned, leaving out some of the more minute details to hurry up my explanations. Throughout my lecture, Mrs. Melogno still had questions for me. I tried to include several details, but could not recall some of the sources and locations. This didn't please her. Despite these repeated episodes behind the scenes, the lesson went well in the face of the students.
I then moved on to my last activity with the sprout jars, which passed without incident and turned out very well. It kept the students engaged and taught them a bit about how to reuse common household items to help support themselves in multiple ways. Then the best answer and conclusion went by uneventfully and I ended the lesson just in time. Cleanup went quickly too.
Overall, I am NOT happy about the botched attempt at preparation. All of those weeks of work down the drain in the space of 5 short, extra minutes. The rest of the presentation was very satisfying though. I stayed composed despite so many setbacks in the start. In addition, no one listening to my lesson, besides a disappointed Ms. Melogno, seemed to suspect a thing was wrong. So, other than nightmarish preparation trouble, things went almost perfectly in my presentation.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
Service Learning
L:
Early - Feb, 2011 - Started work on a saturday cleaning the chicken coop. Then harvested eggs from the hens.
total: 8 hrs.
Mid - Feb, 2011 - Helped set fence posts for new goat pen
total: 8 hrs.
Mid - Feb, 2011 - Helped take down 300 feet of old fence
total: 8 hrs.
Late - Feb, 2011 - Came back and helped move large compost pile. Harvested some more eggs.
total: 6 hrs.
March, 2011 - Prepared raised beds for garden. Pulled weeds out. Harvested eggs.
total: 4 hrs.
Mid - March, 2011 - Started to plant strawberries in beds. Harvested eggs
total: 4 hrs.
Late - April, 2011 - Helped plant tomatoes, herbs, and other crops.
total: 5 hrs.
Early May, 2011 - Harvested eggs, observed newborn goats, & cleaned out barn
total: 7 hrs.
GRAND TOTAL - 50 hrs.
Contact - Betty Joseph
(951) 769 - 4510
I:
The most important thing that I learned from this experience is that Sustainability is a full-time job that eventually becomes your life. It starts out fairly easy, then gets more and more involved and hard as you get closer to achieving it. Despite this, the physical work required to be sustainable is highly rewarding. It may not be glamorous, but in the end you can see and feel that it is completely worth it. The reason why is that as you start being sustainable, you become more aware of your habits and attempt to break or reform the bad ones.
Yet, as you break away from conventional means of aqquiring food and energy, you start to see what you are truly capable of as the weeks go by. After my first egg harvest, I had around 3 dozen eggs. At the end of packaging them, I actually looked at what I did and was shocked at how much I had accomplished in one day. What one person does in one day can feed a family for a week.
A:
This helped me answer my E.Q. in the sense that it taught me what it truly means to be sustainable without any sugar-coating or beating around the bush like many of the written sources did. I realized that if I just preached about issues or showed simple steps towards sustainability, then the people I was informing would end up either indifferent or shocked at how much work sustainability can really be once you get deeply into it. The only way I see that could possibly tell people how it is as closely as possible to reality and still convince them to be sustainable would be to list the pros and cons with explanations for each.
Early - Feb, 2011 - Started work on a saturday cleaning the chicken coop. Then harvested eggs from the hens.
total: 8 hrs.
Mid - Feb, 2011 - Helped set fence posts for new goat pen
total: 8 hrs.
Mid - Feb, 2011 - Helped take down 300 feet of old fence
total: 8 hrs.
Late - Feb, 2011 - Came back and helped move large compost pile. Harvested some more eggs.
total: 6 hrs.
March, 2011 - Prepared raised beds for garden. Pulled weeds out. Harvested eggs.
total: 4 hrs.
Mid - March, 2011 - Started to plant strawberries in beds. Harvested eggs
total: 4 hrs.
Late - April, 2011 - Helped plant tomatoes, herbs, and other crops.
total: 5 hrs.
Early May, 2011 - Harvested eggs, observed newborn goats, & cleaned out barn
total: 7 hrs.
GRAND TOTAL - 50 hrs.
Contact - Betty Joseph
(951) 769 - 4510
I:
The most important thing that I learned from this experience is that Sustainability is a full-time job that eventually becomes your life. It starts out fairly easy, then gets more and more involved and hard as you get closer to achieving it. Despite this, the physical work required to be sustainable is highly rewarding. It may not be glamorous, but in the end you can see and feel that it is completely worth it. The reason why is that as you start being sustainable, you become more aware of your habits and attempt to break or reform the bad ones.
Yet, as you break away from conventional means of aqquiring food and energy, you start to see what you are truly capable of as the weeks go by. After my first egg harvest, I had around 3 dozen eggs. At the end of packaging them, I actually looked at what I did and was shocked at how much I had accomplished in one day. What one person does in one day can feed a family for a week.
A:
This helped me answer my E.Q. in the sense that it taught me what it truly means to be sustainable without any sugar-coating or beating around the bush like many of the written sources did. I realized that if I just preached about issues or showed simple steps towards sustainability, then the people I was informing would end up either indifferent or shocked at how much work sustainability can really be once you get deeply into it. The only way I see that could possibly tell people how it is as closely as possible to reality and still convince them to be sustainable would be to list the pros and cons with explanations for each.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
2 Hour Presentation Rough Draft
Name _Kaitlyn Grayson_____________ Topic: ____Sustainability___________ Presentation Teacher _Melogno_______
EQ: What is the best way to convince people to adopt a sustainable lifestyle?
Classroom Theme: Recycling bins, a model solar panel, a model windmill, a banner w/ E.Q., recycled paper, dried Spanish moss, and rope.
Sponge Activity: (Do not address EQ, but engage your audience in preparation for the presentation. Speaking length should be 3-7 min and will not be timed; be sure to include the activity time range above.)
1. What is the activity: A quick Quiz to see what the class knows already.
2. How it will be done: a powerpoint with each group answering the 5 to 10 questions and explanations of the answers afterwards
3. How the activity relates to answer: It lets the instructor know what confusion there is about sustainability
Introduction: Hello, . . . House! My name is Kaitlyn Grayson and my E.Q. is: What is the best way to convince people to adopt a sustainable lifestyle? So, what I plan to do is clarify some misconceptions about sustainability and why we should practice it. First, how about a little history lesson?
Foundation: I will explain the history of sustainability first and then get into why we should practice sustainability (environmental crisis, pollution, etc.). Also, I will define some of the phrases that occur in my topic.
Answer 1: Inform people about the pros and cons of sustainability.
Information taught:
Sustainability can help reduce our pollution output and keep providing for us in the future.
We need to know at least a couple of benefits of each lifestyle in order to better understand each one and which one to choose. Conventional methods are often cheaper in order to obtain goods and are more readily available. We need to know at least a couple of benefits of each lifestyle in order to better understand each one and which one to choose.
Answer 2: Discuss the global issues brought about by traditional modern lifestyles.
Information taught:
Traditional modern lifestyles are starting to create disastrous consequences for different population. We need to know the danger of continuing our traditional modern lifestyles in order to see what’s ahead and what to plan for it.
Conservation is planned management of a natural resource to prevent exploitation, destruction, or neglect. We need to know conservation is in order to better understand what strategies can help save natural resources.
Answer 3: Show basic conservation techniques to the people.
Information taught:
This way they will know some simple ways of how to help the environment and take steps towards sustainability.
Some techniques are as simple as shutting off water and electricity when they aren’t using them.Answer 1 Activity:
1. What is the activity: Trivia Game - Lesser Evil?
2. How it will be done: the class will be in groups of 4 and each group has different comparisons. Each group has a secret partner with a duplicate comparison to make them defend their own opinions. Each group decides on what is less harmful to the environment. (e.g. car vs. bus, bath vs. shower)
2. How the activity relates to answer: It ties into the fact that sustainability involves pro and con approaches to conservation techniques and these are common parts of conservation knowledge. They are being weighed against each other.
3. All materials for activity:
a laptop, slides printed on papers, and the class
Answer 2 Activity:
1. What is the activity: Trivia Game – What Did This?
2. How it will be done: The class will be in groups of 4 and each group has different comparisons. Each group has a secret partner with a duplicate comparison to make them defend their own opinions. The groups decides on what pollution/activity triggered different negative environmental effects.
2. How the activity relates to answer: This discusses the negative consequences of our current actions and sends a message that we need to change our ways in order to help the environment and be sustainable.
3. All materials for activity:
a laptop, slides printed on papers, and the class
Answer 3 Activity:
1. What is the activity: Make your own sprout jar
2. How it will be done: I will give each person a plastic water bottle and instruct them to cut the top off and put alfalfa seeds in with some water, slosh it around, and drain it. Then cover the top with cheese cloth and put the newly made jar in the sun. They will have alfalfa sprouts to eat in a few days.
2. How the activity relates to answer: This is a way to teach people simple ways to be more sustainable by growing some of their own food.
3. All materials for activity:
old water bottles, alfalfa seeds, cheese cloth, water, and the class
Best Answer:
Inform people about the pros and cons of sustainability.
Sustainability can help reduce our pollution output and keep providing for us in the future.
We need to know at least a couple of benefits of each lifestyle in order to better understand each one and which one to choose. Conventional methods are often cheaper in order to obtain goods and are more readily available. We need to know at least a couple of benefits of each lifestyle in order to better understand each one and which one to choose.
Three Meaningful sources:
1. Madigan, Carleen. The Backyard Homestead. North Adams, MA: Storey Pub., 2009. Print.
2. Service Learning w/ Betty Joeseph
3. Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore's Dilemma: a Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin, 2007. Print.
Product:
I now have more respect and appreciation of what we already have at our disposal outside of modern technology. I feel we take nature for granted and now I have become a vegetarian and recycle almost everything I use. I am also trying to spread the message so that other people can help too. After all, I can’t do this alone.
Conclusion:
This is the end of my presentation and I hope that you will all use this information in the future and/or present to make good choices in your lives. After all, what you do not only effects your life, but your friends, family, and even people you don't know. Earth-wise, every little bit of help counts towards a cleaner and brighter future. Thank you for your time.
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