Community Mapping Tools Overview

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Compassionate Leadership Through Service Learning with Jane Goodall and Roots & Shoots

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University of Colorado Boulder

Compassionate Leadership Through Service Learning with Jane Goodall and Roots & Shoots

30 ratings

Join us for an action-oriented online teacher professional development course! This course will teach participants how to identify and implement a local service-learning campaign using the Roots & Shoots program model. The service learning curriculum equips participants with teacher resources to discover the differences between service-learning and community service, and apply the Roots & Shoots model to help youth have a voice in identifying and addressing needs in their community. At Roots & Shoots, our goal is to develop compassionate leaders to make the world a better place for people, other animals and the environment. Help us achieve that goal! Complete the course and mentor young people to lead change in their communities using community mapping, collaborating with stakeholders, and designing practical solutions in the form of campaigns. Connect young people to Dr. Jane Goodall’s message of hope while facilitating a sense of empowerment that comes from helping others!

From the lesson

Step 2: Making Observations & Mapping Your Community

Lessons with Dr. Jane2:26

Step 2: Community Mapping6:43

Community Mapping Tools Overview3:36

Meet the Instructors

Hope Martinez
Youth Leadership Council Manager, Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots
the Jane Goodall Institute
Dr. Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE
Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute
the Jane Goodall Institute
Brad McLain
Research Scientist, Co-Director Experiential Science Education Research Collaborative, University of Colorado, Boulder
Center for STEM Learning
Erin Viera-Orr
Vice President, Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots
the Jane Goodall Institute

As you have gathered by now, community mapping is a way we guide students to

learn about their communities so

they can identify an informed need to address through their service campaign.

>> We found a lot of different problems in our neighborhood.

And we were actually very bothered by that,

because we wanted our neighborhood to be a nice neighborhood.

And the main problems that we found were that there were a lot of graffiti,

there was a lot of litter by the streets, and

that there was a lot of food waste, like all over the place.

>> Each of our community mapping activities are designed to allow

participants to create a visual of their community's strengths and weaknesses.

And this one form the type of service campaign you create together.

We have several different community mapping tools for you to select from.

Community Mapping 101 is the first tool that we will explore during the course.

This is a pen and paper map to identify a long-term service campaign.

The other tool we'll practice in this week is Digital Mapping.

It can be used on its own to identify a long-term service campaign, or it can be

used after Community Mapping 101 to turn your pen and paper map to a digital one.

Mapping for younger children is a great option for

those working with younger students.

And the Micro-Mapping Sprint is a quick mapping activity for

those short on time, to identify a quick one-time service project that

you can do in a short period of time.

This chart is available for you to download in the resource section.

A quick note about safety.

If you plan on sharing your maps beyond your classroom and group,

we encourage you to always start from a public location like a school or

a library, and not mark the exact location of your home.

The first step to mapping the community is observation.

Before you start to physically map,

you want to spend some time observing your community.

There are a number of ways to do this, but we suggest asking students to observe

their surroundings on their way to and from school.

As we move through our lives, we tend to tune out the things we see every day.

Encourage young people to pay attention.

You could ask them to journal or write out what they see, or

they could even draw pictures or take photos.

The possibilities are endless.

If possible, take a walk around the community with students.

This is a great way to get out of the classroom and

allows your young people to discuss what they are seeing as they see it.

If you can't go for a community walk, you could always print out a map of

the community and then use this as a reference when you start the exercise.

The mapping resources will have guiding questions to help you facilitate

the observation process.

>> Once the observation step is complete,

then you're ready to begin physical mapping.

Coming up next...

We will cover how to do a basic community map using a Community Mapping 101

resource.

When done in the classroom,

it can be completed over the course of a few weeks or in just a few classes.

Or program periods depending on your time.

On average educators reported that preparing for

this activity took about two hours and an average of three hours to implement.

Community mapping 101 is a pen and paper mapping tool.

This is a great method for classes that don't have access to computers.

>> And it also allows more artistic liberties from a digital map.

So click on the next video for

a demonstration of Community Mapping 101 process.

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