The 21st Century Community Schoolhouse's
Local Action Projects Page
Local Action Projects are activities in which students provide service to their community or the environment. Below are some of the activities that students have been involved in. Over the past three years, International Schoolhouse students have voluteered thousands of hours to Local Action Projects in their community.
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Here
students are doing a macroinvertebrate study for the Adopt-A-Stream Program.
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Another
Adopt-A-Stream project is marking storm drains to educate people to not
pour wastes down street drains. Here a group is walking to their work
area.
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Invasive
species removal is another activity the group focuses on. The group is
near the Oregon Coast at Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge helping
to rid the area of the Himalayan blackberry.
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This
years biggest Local Action endeavor has been at the Fairview Mitigation
Wetland site. Students are raking up cut grass in order to prepare the
site for a planting project.
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Students
are planting sedges to help diversify the plant community at the Fairview
Mitigation Wetland. In the winter months, this area will be entirely covered
with water.
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One
way to help maintain wetland sites is to replant native plants. Willow
stakes, as seen here, are placed in the wetland area. Eventually they
will grow on their own.
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