How to Become an RDT Green Map School in 2010-2011

As a school partner you will be asked to:

• Organize a Green-Map team for your school ( teachers, students, parents, volunteers).
• Attend a Teacher Professional Development Workshop* to learn how to “map” your community.
• Meet with RDT’s Green-Map leaders to schedule residency activities.
• Survey your designated community and identify its features using Green-Map Icons.
• Create a map of your neighborhood and contribute to the creation of the Salt Lake County Green Map

SUMMER WORKSHOP FOR TEACHERS

In-Depth three-day workshops conducted in the summer will offer instruction on mapmaking process, the icons for sustainable living, assessment procedure, goals, methods, curriculum content and lesson plans to achieve success integrating and implementing the material.

• Contact: Lynne Larson, (801) 534-1000
• Cost: Teachers in Salt Lake County who join RDT’s Green Map initiative may attend the workshop free of charge and be eligible for a free RDT in-school Residency

RDT GREEN MAP RESIDENCY OUTLINE

• Professional Development Workshop: Teachers will become acquaint with the GM icons© for sustainable living, the mapmaking process, assessment procedure, goals, methods, curriculum content and lesson plans to achieve success integrating and implementing the material.
• Outreach Activities: Movement classes, RDT lecture demonstrations, arts related workshops, classes relating to the natural environment, “green” building, alternative energy development, land-use, geography and history may be scheduled.
• Displays, publications, in-school performances and site-specific events: Students will create of a portrait of their communities using dance, visual arts, photographs, videos, essays, interviews with those people affected by the area. RDT will develop student choreography inspired by the Green Map icons.
• Creation of a digital and hard copy map: RDT will compile information from the inventory to be shared on the Green Map ® international website. A digital and hard copy- map of Salt Lake County will be created to become a valuable tool serving local residents, visitors, businesses, and educators.
• Credits: Participating teacher will be eligible for State Office In-Service re-certification or university credits.

“The Green Map Project absorbs students in the realities of their surroundings, triggers curiosity about how these realities affect them, and causes them to wonder about what it means for their future health and happiness. Most wonderful of all, the Green Project gives students a powerfully authentic voice by teaching them how to express their response through dance. This communicative gift deeply imbeds understanding and memory and encourages their participation in making their corner of the world a better place.” (Carol Ann Goodson, Ph.D., State Fine Arts Specialist, Utah State Office of Education)