GARBAGE GOLF! “Course of Causes” is a cross-curricular 18+ hole mini golf course with public art sculptures (made from recycled materials) being the obstacles on the course. In addition to this student service learning, recycling & sustainability unit being in conjunction with Earth Day, each golf hole supported a different student selected cause spanning from local to global communities.
1. Welcome to
Student Service Learning
GARBAGE GOLF
“Course of Causes”
St. Louis Convention Center
CHARACTERplus National Conference
June 27, 2012
Presenter: Melissa Rhinehart
Breakout Session: Room 103 1:45-3pm
2. http://www.garbagegolf.com/
GARBAGE GOLF! “Course of Causes” is a cross-curricular
18+ hole mini golf course with public art sculptures (made from
recycled materials) being the obstacles on the course. In
addition to this student service learning, recycling &
sustainability unit being in conjunction with Earth Day, each golf
hole supported a different student selected cause spanning from
local to global communities.
For example some students worked with
local Community Services to raise
awareness and funds for disabilities &
ending homelessness, while others chose
global organizations such as The Water
Project, that builds wells for clean
drinking water in Africa.
3. Missouri
Service Learning Standards
RECIPROCAL PARTNERSHIPS
Service-learning involves a variety of
partners, including
youth, educators, families, community
members, community-based
organizations, and/or businesses
4. • Community partnerships were formed through guest speakers from chosen
organizations, some in person, others via Skype & GoToMeeting.
• Turf was donated to us by the Indianapolis Super Bowl Host Committee 1st
& Green Program.
• Putters were borrowed from a local business and other supplies were
made possible through McDonald’s (MAC) Making Activities Count Grant.
5. GARBAGE GOLF
A PUBLIC SCULPTURE
Recycling & Sustainability Unit
Z510: Arts for Exceptional Children: Gifted
Indiana University
Bloomington
Summer 2011
Dr. Enid Zimmerman
Melissa Rhinehart
7.
Purpose:
To explore sustainability and recycling
To explore how artists can make public art
utilizing recycling to contribute to a sustainable
community through service learning
8. MEANINGFUL SERVICE
Students identify, authenticate, and learn about
a recognized community need. Student actions
are reciprocal, valued by the community, and
have real consequences while offering
opportunities to apply newly acquired academic
skills and knowledge.
9. Look at the following 5 slides of pictures & videos…
*write your observations on post-it notes
10. Reference Map – 2008/9 Commercial Hazardous Waste Landfills
*write your observations on post-it notes
11. Look at the following pictures…
*write your observations on post-it notes
13.
Global
Planet 100: The Pacific Trash Vortex Explained (2:42)
▪
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc6LvdsyJ4U
USA
Landfill video field trip (6:57)
▪
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA608GJ-EzM&feature=related
USA
Landfill Video (4min)
▪
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ1HmzsLwqc
Local
Clark & Floyd County, Indiana Landfill (1:03)
▪
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_zhUV2ZHqM
*write your observations on post-it notes
14.
Now group your post it notes into categories
on the board.
What themes did you come up with?
What could the problem be?
15.
Landfills affect life
Recycling is change
Objects can be manipulated and repurposed
Sustainability is endurance
Sustainable Communities grow and change
16. Comprehension:
• Describe the conditions and surroundings of a landfill based on the pictures / videos
• Discuss the problems with landfills
•Explain how landfills affect life
•Interpret the color coded map of the US hazardous waste landfills
• Predict what our world will be like in 100 years without recycling
•Restate the meaning of sustainability
•Translate the meaning of the picture of the garbage inside the footprint
•Compare the pros and cons of recycling
17.
How can materials be transformed into other
objects to help solve real life problems?
▪ (ex. BP Oil Spill)
How can drawings be used in this process?
-(Ex. Mechanical drawing / industrial designers/ CAD
designers)
18.
What is the problem?
Sustainability
How can students impact global sustainability
through service learning?
Indiana State Standard:
[] Standard 12 - Students understand how art experiences affect daily life and identify opportunities for involvement in the arts.
[ART.7.12.3 & 8.12.3] Identify ways one can become actively involved in supporting the arts in the community.
[1-7] The arts are connected to other areas of life.
19. Landfills
Improper
disposal of
objects
Not enough
recycling
Lack of
concern /
opportunity
Lack of
consumption
reduction & reuse
Lack of
education
pollution
Environmental
Air / water
contaminates
lack of
sustainable
materials
Health effects
Lack of
Funding for
recycling
economy
government
20. Application:
Make a graphic organizer or chart to
brainstorm possible ways to help solve
or alleviate the global landfill problem.
21. YOUTH VOICE & CHOICE
Service-learning engages youth in
generating ideas during the
planning, implementation, and evaluation
process
23.
Analysis:
Sort brainstorming categories into chart for
solution finding
Assign each idea points based on questions
Tally the points for each idea to see which idea is
the best to pursue
24. Will it take a
long time to
complete?
Will it involve
many
people?
Will it have a
lasting
impact?
Can the event
be repeated
in the future?
TALLY
1.
Political
Change
1
5
5
1
12
2.
Education
3
4
3
5
15
3. Recycled /
Sustainable
Art event
5
5
4
5
19
4.
Adopt a
Highway
1
5
5
1
12
25. Researching
Solutions
Internet search
Recycled / Sustainable Art event
Adopt a Highway
Political Change
Can be used to educate public
about Sustainability
No -due to dangerous
conditions, legalities
& age restrictions
Fieldtrips
Louisville, KY
To see public art
Professionals
Talks / workshops
with visiting
Professional
Sculptors and Public Artists
Parent Resources
Send letters home
to parents for parent
Volunteers and donations
Local Businesses /
Community
Contact local business
Owners to
Assess their level of sustainable
practices & interest for
involvement in our event
No - due to time constraints
of school year & bureaucracy
26.
What is something fun to do in the community?
Basketball, Skate park, Hayswood
park, Paintball, Movies, Arcade, Golf Shores Fun Center –
minigolf, riding bikes, swimming, shopping
What is something that people of all ages can
do, indoors, incase of rain?
Basketball, Paintball, Movies, Arcade, Golf Shores Fun Center –mini
golf, swimming (YMCA), shopping
What activities can we do in our gymnasium?
Basketball, Movies, indoor mini-golf
What activities could incorporate large scale art work, public
works and sculptures?
Mini golf
27.
28.
Books
Recycling
Sustainability
Paper mache sculptures
Internet search, YouTube videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnHt5gpKK6o (junkyard golf)
http://ultimatepapermache.com/paper-mache-clay/comment-page-7 (recipe, process
and video)
http://wn.com/Make_a_Paper_Mache_Mirror__Acrylic_Painting_Project__Art_and_Cra
ft (Paper mache mirrormaking video)
Fieldtrip to local mini golf course
Golf Shores Fun Center; Corydon, IN
▪ http://golfshoresfuncenter.com/
Consult Professionals
Talks with professional artists / industrial artists / engineers
32. •Look at 3-D Public Art road paintings
(slide shows in upcoming slides)
to inspire perspective painting for floor
surfaces such as the mini golf floor
35.
Brainstorm a theme
Holes can have individual themes and be unified
under the umbrella of mini golf and / or recycling /
sustainability
OR
Students can decide to have a common theme for
the entire course
36. Example Theme…
All-weather miniature golf in Madison
An indoor course at Vitense salutes the city
True to the course's
name, each hole pays
tribute in some way to a
beloved local site or event.
Although the third hole is
named for Oscar Mayer, it
features not the mammoth
facility on Mayer Avenue
but rather a colossal hot
dog -- with mustard, natch -that doubles as a slippery
slide for the kiddies..
40. Guest Speakers
Students were given a “Listening Worksheet”
to complete during Guest Speakers
presentations.
Guest speakers were especially important in this project to dispel any
myths, stereotypes or misconceptions for students to more acurately represent their
chosen cause / organization
Speakers:
American Cancer Society
American Diabetes Association
Kosair Children’s Hospital
Animal Control / Humane Society
Best Friend’s Animal Society
Harrison Co Coroner
Harrison Co Community Services
Blue River Services
Wild Life in Need
Videos of Guest Speaker Presentations
Are currently being edited & should be
available soon at
GARBAGEGOLF.COM
42.
How will your design layout work?
What will your obstacles be?
Where / how will they be placed?
What recyclable materials can you use to create the obstacles?
How many paths will there be through, around, under or over the
obstacles?
How will your obstacles effect par?
45.
Limited as of
this time to
size of school
gym
Need to
measure
usable space
in order to a
lot students a
size “cap” on
their creation
46. Missouri
Service Learning Standards
LINK TO CURRICULUM
Service-learning helps participants learn
how to transfer knowledge and skills
from one setting to another
47. Synthesis:
• Plan layout of mini golf boards (determining size and space
requirements / restrictions)
•Design your mini golf platform integrating math, art & language arts
description of the process & recycled materials used for an educational
display.
•Plan advertising strategies for the mini golf event
• Create an agenda demonstrating how all of the activities, events and Tee
times will be integrated at the mini golf event
• Design informational literature (brochure / newspaper) and / or presentation
(PowerPoint / Movie Maker, etc…) to educate parents, patrons & participants
about how this event helps impact local & global sustainability
59. Missouri
Service Learning Standards
LINK TO CURRICULUM
The process includes deliberate cross-curricular connections whereby
students learn skills and content through varied modalities that meet
academic standards and enables the transference of skills and content
to new applications. The content informs the service and the service
informs the content.
Service-learning is aligned with the academic and/or programmatic
curriculum
60. Art
[] Standard 13 - Students identify and make connections between knowledge and skill in art and all other subject
areas such as humanities, sciences, and technology.
[K-HS] Compares and integrates ideas, activities and studies across disciplines.
[ART.7.13.2] Create an integrated product or performance and analyze how integration of disciplines enhances knowledge.
[] Standard 12 - Students understand how art experiences affect daily life and identify opportunities for involvement
in the arts.
[ART.7.12.3] Identify ways one can become actively involved in supporting the arts in the community.
[1-7] The arts are connected to other areas of life.
[] Standard 9 - Students develop and apply skills using a variety of two dimensional and three dimensional
media, tools, and processes to create works that communicate personal meaning.
[ART.8.9.2] Demonstrate appropriate use of different media, techniques, and processes to communicate themes and
ideas in their work.
[7-8] Demonstrates sculpture techniques.
[7-8] Demonstrates painting techniques.
[7-8] Demonstrates printmaking techniques.
61.
Math
Scale drawing / proportions
Probability / Averaging for calculating par
Geometry: slope, angle, trajectory
▪ Algebra and Functions
▪ 8.3.5
Identify and graph linear functions, and identify lines with positive and negative slope. (Core
Standard)
8.3.6
Find the slope of a linear function given the equation and write the equation of a line given
the slope and any point on the line (Core Standard)
▪ Geometry
8.4.1
Identify and describe basic properties of geometric shapes: altitudes, diagonals, angle
bisectors, perpendicular bisectors, central angles, radii, diameters, and chords of circles.
(Core Standard)
8.4.2
Perform simple constructions such as bisectors of segments and angles, copies of segments
and angles, and perpendicular segments. Describe and justify the constructions. (Core
Standard)
62. Science
Sustainability, recycling, environment
▪ Earth and Space Systems
8.2.7
Recognize that some of Earth’s resources are finite and describe how
recycling, reducing consumption and the development of alternatives can reduce
the rate of their depletion.
Language Arts
Literacy (6-8.RT.4)
▪ Write a step-by-step process and explanation of your project for public display next to mini golf
hole
▪ Create an informative brochure for your Education Station
▪ Public Speaking
63. Health
Many causes were health related topics such as Breast Cancer Awareness, Autism & Disability
Awareness, Drug Abuse Awareness, Kosair Children's Hospital, Muscular Dystrophy, Rachel's
Challenge (mental / social health,) Stop Diabetes, Spina Bifida Awareness, Suicide Prevention
Many of our guest speakers were on these health related topics
Physical Education
the sport of golf, visual-spatial / hand-eye coordinaton skills
Benefits of physical activity through sports
Social Studies & Economics
Discuss how artists, artwork, and art institutions can impact local and national economies
Benefits of fundraising for society / social causes
Factors involved in donations (why did some groups raise more money than others?)
Where does the money go / what it is used for / get put back in local / national / global economies?
64. Public Display
18 Hole Garbage Golf Course will be
presented to Parents, Community and
Classmates to interact, play & explore
process & educate about recycling /
sustainability
70. Public Display
Also…Articles about the process and event
will be written and submitted to local
newspapers, School Arts and Arts &Activities
Magazines.
71.
72.
73. Missouri
Service Learning Standards
YOUTH VOICE & CHOICE
Service-learning promotes acquisition of
knowledge and skills to enhance youth
leadership and decision-making
74. Ticket & T-Shirt Sales
Donation Count
Concession Stand
Bake Sale
Silent Auction & Raffle Items
76.
Evaluation:
Formative
Observation of student progress
Student Interview Questions
Pre & Post Standards Based Surveys
Summative
Rubric
Critique the final product