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Environmental StoryDiscuss your favorite places in the community (the park, the mountains, the shopping center, an amusement park, the bosque). Draw pictures of these places. These drawings can be used in several ways.
Transfer the drawing from paper to cloth. Sew the pictures together to make a quilt or a wall hanging.
Make a collage and exhibit it on the bulletin board.
Copy the drawing onto a large mural which can be painted on a classroom or corridor wall.
Initiate a local living history program.
Identify, among your friends or relatives, older people who have lived in the community since their youth.
Arrange to interview them either at their homes or at the school.
Use a tape recording to preserve their anecdotes and comments.
Prepare a list of questions in advance to guide the discussion.
Brainstorm a list of words or phrases which summarize your positive feelings about your community. using these words, create an advertising campaign to publicize the desirable aspects of the area.
Establish pen pals, email or regular, with a school in another community in the area. Correspond on a regular basis. Write about things you like to do in your community, where you go to do these things, ways in which you would like to see your community improved, what you are doing to bring this improvement about.
Define the word community both in its biological and human sense.
In what ways are natural, biological communities similar to human, social ones? In what ways are they dissimilar?
What are some of the communities you belong to? To show these, use concentric circles (home, school, block, neighborhood, etc.)
What are some of the ways in which the people in each of these communities interact with each other?
Write
essays about the importance of community to most human beings. What are
some of the causes of feelings of alienation and loneliness?
Make a list of areas and communities in Albuquerque Bernalillo County other than the one in which you live. How often do you leave your own community and go to another? To which other sections do you go most often? Which do you never visit?
Under what circumstances do you leave your own community: shopping, visiting relatives, cultural events, etc.?
Do you identify with Albuquerque Bernalillo County as a whole or with your own community?
What stereotypes do you have, both positive and negative, about other areas in Albuquerque Bernalillo County?
What does the word provincial mean? Do you feel that you are provincial in your social behavior?
What ways can be found to build better understanding of the problems and viewpoints of people in different parts of the city?
What are the activities, concerns, expectations, hopes which are common to young people on all parts of the city, and which can bind them together? What are the forces which isolate or alienate them?
Could you start an inter-school organization which can help build better rapport?
(Up to Section II, Back to Additional Activities 3, On to Eye Opener Worksheet 4)