Puddles & Floods: Learning to “Read” Flood-Prone Landscapes of the Lower Mississippi River
Implementing Organization
Ripple Effect Water Literacy Project
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$223,810
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Gulf Research Program (NASEM - GRP)
Funding Program
NASEM Gulf Research Program Grants
Details
Project Category
Human and Social
Project Actions
Education and Outreach
Targeted Resources
Project Description
This project proposes a two-part student learning journey, in which upper elementary and middle school students build their understanding of scientific and social dimensions of flooding through investigations centered on two sites—their schoolyards and one off campus flood control location in Southeast Louisiana. Student learning experiences traverse scientific, social, and political realms of flood control as they use field-based protocols and engage storytelling to build a science-based understanding of causes of flooding, and also connect the phenomenon of increasing frequency of flood events to their own experiences and futures. Across ten 1-hour lessons, students from East Baton Rouge and Orleans parishes will view a short film based off of the documentary Station 15, which is about a young Black woman in New Orleans who tries to figure out why her city floods so often. Students then use research-based protocols to track how water moves through environmental and human systems within their schoolyard, then apply these same investigations to track the movement of water in regionally significant sites of flood control. In a culminating project, students share their own learning journey through creative writing, drawing, photographic essays, or other creative forms of expression to draw connections between their personal experiences with flooding, their developing socioecological knowledge, and field locations.
Contact
Claire AndersonNone
hello@rippleeffectnola.com
Project Website
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