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Students from East Chicago Central High School
present a water quality school lesson to other students and members
of the community at the annual SCOPES Summit. The lesson was one
that their classmates presented to elementary students throughout
the school year, as part of the Environmental Justice Partnership
program.
Top Ten Features of DuneSCOPES
- Student-driven, hands-on
- Earn service learning credits
- Application of educational skills
- More stewards of our National Parks
- Exposure to environmental careers
- Connecting with others in community
- Provide useful data to agencies
- Financial assistance available
- Earn teach recertification credits
- Fits teachers guidelines and standards
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Get involved with your National Park!
The National Park Service and Indiana
Dunes Environmental Learning Center offer an engaging, place-based
environmental education program for high school students. DuneSCOPES
(Students Concentrating On Positive
Environmental Science) is an interdisciplinary program
where students help set goals for projects within the park and/or
their communities, which involves authentic research, resource management,
stewardship, or other important forms of expression and communication.
Some of the current projects
include wetland restoration, stream monitoring, and writing and
editing park brochures and documents. The program links students
together through an end-of-the-year student symposium and the worldwide
web to learn about each other and their region.
 DuneSCOPES meets state and national education standards,
and the staff also assists teachers by providing rubrics, pre and
post-visits to the school, and offering re-certification credits
and financial assistance. Students participating in the residential
program at the Environmental Learning
Center walk away with memories that last a lifetime! The program
can also be accomplished though a series of day visits to the national
lakeshore. Since April of 1999, 1000 students from 20
schools have participated in DuneSCOPES.
Funding for this P.A.R.K.S. (Parks
as Resources for Knowledge in Science) Program came from the National
Park Foundation, Exxon Corporation,
and the Gaylord
and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.
For more information or to schedule
a program, contact the national lakeshore's education technician
at 219-926-7561,ext. 243 or at justin_woldt@nps.gov.
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