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Community Service Winter Term 2010
Winterm 2010!!!
From February 1-12, the regular Compass School schedule will be put on hold and students will be asked to apply their academic learning to help address real needs in our community and our world. Working in small groups with peers from grades 7-12 and a teacher-leader, students will meet with various partners and organize themselves to help address specific needs. This work asks students to take knowledge and skills developed in their classes and apply them to real-world problems and issues.
Some of the Winterm projects on tap this year include:
► Service-Learning Trip to Ecuador (All juniors will participate)
► Grafton Nature Museum
Compass students will work with the Grafton Nature Museum to design and build exhibits that meet the museum's needs for this year’s theme of “Pale Blue Dot-Voices for a Small Planet.”
► Ecology Trip to North Carolina
The students on this adventure will be looking at a unique ecosystem along the Cape Fear River and the inlets of the coast of North Carolina. We will work with Cape Fear COASTKEEPER, North Carolina Coastal Federation, Bald Head Island Conservancy, and the New River Foundation to explore how they work to protect their ecosystem. Our volunteer work will vary from cleaning up gazebos to cleaning the tidal shores.
►Art that Serves
This group will work to create a mural for the new homeless shelter in Bellows Falls.
►Storytelling on the Road
Students will work together to choose stories to perform for area elementary schools.
►In Search for the Wooly Adelgid! A winter woodland adventure and public outreach campaign
focused on the wooly adelgid, an insect that is killing hemlocks throughout southern and central New England.
►There's No Place Like Home
This Winterm course will examine the concept of homelessness in the United States and explore the questions: What is a home? Who is homeless? and What can we do about it?
► Where is the Justice in the U.S. Justice System?
This group will study what does "justice" mean and how is this played out in the U.S..
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