Enviroprop the Following Project Is

Enviroprop The following project is proposed in order to promote awareness by citizens towards the environment; on-going field trips and summer camps conducted by concerned environmentalists, scientists and instructors. These excursions will be offered to students from Baltimore schools that will be grouped by ages and interests. These groups will then spend the bulk of each day of the camp exploring forests, swamps, the ocean and lakes as well as spending time in a camp laboratory and classrooms.

Educational materials will be provided for each student, as well as hands-on experiences including; water testing for salinity, pH., turbidity, water temperature and tides, as well as crab tagging, investigating plankton, fish feeding behavior, humidity, acid rain, hot and cold convection, currents, under pressure, salinity in soil, indoor CO2, noise pollution, evaporation, plot sampling, composts, soil composition, respiration in plants and animals, bird tagging, soil microorganism feeding behaviors and much, much more.

Such a project is needed on a very large scale and could be implemented in the Baltimore area in a cost effective and efficient manner that could provide society with a method and model for future environmental camps strategically held throughout the United States and the rest of the world. Plans for the indoctrination of environmental guidelines and beliefs on these young impressionable minds could not only prove to be very effective but are likely to lead to long-term benefits for the environment as well as the environmental movement.

The outdoor experiences supplied by these camps for these young individuals could lead to life-long understanding and a solid empathy of the environment and its effects on society by those who do not understand those effects. Evaluating the results of these camps on the psyches and resulting beliefs of the young participants is especially important in order to mold the activities to achieve a greater influence on these students and their understanding of the message which we wish to convey to them through these experiences.

It is therefore quite important to evaluate each experience on its own merits, as well as to how well each experience is integrated into the overall picture. An evaluation form has been developed for each participant as well as the parents of that participant. The evaluation form will be handed out at the end of each of the camps (whether the attendee stayed for a one-week or the full three-week course will be noted) for completion and return to the directors of the camp.

After the evaluation forms have been returned, the responses contained therein will be analyzed and broken down into categories pertaining to each camp experience and how it (they) were perceived by the campers. Follow-up questionnaires can be.