Service learning
I worked at the community garden at Edcc for two hours, from 3-5 during the second week of the quarter. I worked with Gwen and some other staff who rant he garden, although i sadly cannot remember their names. The main purpose of this event was to plant some of the vegetables, and other plants that the garden had received. Another purpose of this was to apply science into a real world setting. For the first hour, i worked by pulling some weeds and planting rows of carrots down. Later, i helped plant what i think was lettuce into the soil.
I really enjoyed this part of our science class because I had never done anything like this in a science class. All my other science classes that i have taken have just been in class work. We never got to apply what we had learned to our community to make a difference in the world. Actually going out into the garden and getting my hands dirty helping out, opened my eyes to how science can be much more than just something learned out of a textbook. I think that this opportunity really helped me to realize how applicable science can be. It is certainly important to study and read textbooks, but there would be nothing to learn if people did not go out and do research and help out in their communities. Leaving the garden afterwards definitely had me leaving with a sense of pride for what i had done. It felt good to know that i had helped out my community. Although much of the specific marine things we have learned in class couldn't relate to the garden work, a lot of the studying we did about ecology really ties into what we were doing. Helping to plant more and eat more sustainable food, can really improve the overall ecology of an ecosystem. Learning about how photosynthesizes like the plants are so important helped me to see how what we did in the garden was helpful to all marine ecosystems, even marine ones. Marine Biology is interdisciplinary because of how everything that goes on in land can affect our oceans. All of the ecosystems on earth, whether they are marine or not are connected, so anything that we do can have a large impact on our waters.
1.) how many of the plants we planted evolved from marine plants such as green algae?
2.) how are the plants that we planted early in the quarter doing now?
3.) what does the garden do with all the food that it creates on campus
4.) what are some of the direct ways that the garden affects marine ecosystems?
I really enjoyed this part of our science class because I had never done anything like this in a science class. All my other science classes that i have taken have just been in class work. We never got to apply what we had learned to our community to make a difference in the world. Actually going out into the garden and getting my hands dirty helping out, opened my eyes to how science can be much more than just something learned out of a textbook. I think that this opportunity really helped me to realize how applicable science can be. It is certainly important to study and read textbooks, but there would be nothing to learn if people did not go out and do research and help out in their communities. Leaving the garden afterwards definitely had me leaving with a sense of pride for what i had done. It felt good to know that i had helped out my community. Although much of the specific marine things we have learned in class couldn't relate to the garden work, a lot of the studying we did about ecology really ties into what we were doing. Helping to plant more and eat more sustainable food, can really improve the overall ecology of an ecosystem. Learning about how photosynthesizes like the plants are so important helped me to see how what we did in the garden was helpful to all marine ecosystems, even marine ones. Marine Biology is interdisciplinary because of how everything that goes on in land can affect our oceans. All of the ecosystems on earth, whether they are marine or not are connected, so anything that we do can have a large impact on our waters.
1.) how many of the plants we planted evolved from marine plants such as green algae?
2.) how are the plants that we planted early in the quarter doing now?
3.) what does the garden do with all the food that it creates on campus
4.) what are some of the direct ways that the garden affects marine ecosystems?
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