he educational goals of this proposed project are to enhance and extend the required grade level curriculum of plant life cycles, habitats, and ecosystems for students, increase student achievement in these subject areas by providing unique learning opportunities (inquiry based, tactile learning, etc.), and to increase parent and community involvement for the benefit of the student's education.
lobal Youth Service Day (GYSD) 2011 our students will plan, measure, and design a restoration 'natural garden nursery' (50 ft X 50 ft, ~ 400 plants total) with twenty-five species specific to natural plant communities found in the Galesburg area. Our students will also measure the growth of their native plants, and design informative t-shirts illustrating the restoration theme of our project. We plan on having a transplanting day event in May when the students will transplant their plants in the field site. Students will prepare and present posters, banners, and display visual aids of the oil spill to demonstrate what they have learned.
