Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 6
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 52
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 12
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 78
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Gardens/Plantlife
Description : Students from Professor Steve Rodie’s Landscape Design Lab course and Ms. Rachael Burn’s Omaha Northwest’s (ONW) Advanced Horticulture and Landscaping students will jointly present designs for an expanding teaching garden to be installed at ONW. This P-16 service learning project highlights environmental sustainability and STEAM concepts (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math).
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 20
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 225
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 10
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 152
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Inclusion, Diversity & Equity
Description : UNO Political Science students worked with Northwest High Magnet School students to build facilitation skills through planning a sustained dialogue event with the Anti-Defamation League. The students worked with small groups throughout the semester to simulate a conversation around how to make Omaha a more welcoming place. The UNO and Northwest students hosted area high school students on UNO's campus to hold a sustained dialogue event where they discussed problems facing Omaha and created action items of how they can be a part of finding solutions to those problems.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 12
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 48
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 27
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 108
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Clean Water/Water Management
Description : UNO Chemistry and Northwest HS (ONW) Honors Chemistry students came to UNO to learn about how to test water samples taken from the homes of the ONW students. Through ion chromatography analysis, UNO and Northwest students were able to find out what chemicals existed in water samples taken from Northeast Omaha. In addition, Kara Eastman of the Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance, taught the ONW group about the harmful effects of lead poisoning in the Omaha Community. This will be a continuation project, culminating in the students taking what they have learned to produce informational pieces about lead in Omaha water that the Healthy Kids Alliance will be able to give to their clients.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 58
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 580
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 14
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 140
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Wildlife/Animal Welfare
Description : Northwest High School students from Ms. Rachel Benzoni's AP Chemistry class will work with UNO students from Dr. Dana Richter-Egger's Chemistry in Environment and Society course on a water quality project. They will visit the Wildlife Safari Park to test the Pawnee River's water quality and present their findings.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 12
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 300
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Wildlife/Animal Welfare
Description : UNO students from Dr. Dana Richter-Egger’s General Chemistry II Laboratory course and the Northwest High School students from Ms. Rachel Benzoni’s Chemistry class will visit the Wildlife Safari Park for their service-learning project. They will collect macroinvertebrate and water samples from the Pawnee River for water quality testing. The test results will be shared with representatives from Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium and Lee G. Simmons Conservation Park & Wildlife Safari at the final presentation.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 11
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 308
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Leadership and Mentoring
Description : UNO Social Work 8220 students will work with members of the Circle of Friends group from Omaha Northwest High Magnet School. UNO students will develop active listening and rapport-building skills while helping Circle of Friends members create personal goals with objectives, learn new skills, and adapt in social situations. The goal is to allow graduate social work students to learn clinical skills and Circle of Friends members to learn skills to utilize during and after high school.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Food and Water Security, Health Awareness
Description : None
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 19
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 190
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Climate and Sustainability
Description : Students from Professor Steve Rodie’s Landscape Appreciation course and Ms. Rachael Arens’ Omaha Northwest AP Environmental Science students will work together to design a garden addition for the garden at Northwest High School. The garden will feature plants of various types, including medicinal and pollinator plants as well as a garden to highlight both Native American traditions and the explorations of Lewis and Clark. This P-16 service learning project covers various environmental sustainability and STEAM concepts (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math). This project reinforces classroom curriculum for UNO and ONW students by teaching students about sustainable landscape design techniques in a real-world setting.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 2
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 14
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 12
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Civic and Political Engagement, Waste, Youth Programming, Climate and Sustainability
Description : Students from Professor Steve Rodie’s Landscape Appreciation course and Ms. Rachael Arens’ Omaha Northwest AP Environmental Science students jointly gathered information in the Fall 2019 semester on the City of Omaha’s potential plastic bag ban ordnance. On January 30th, students testified to the LB 905 bill committee in Lincoln at the State Capitol in favor of a plastic bag ban.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 35
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Gardens/Plantlife, Climate and Sustainability
Description : This project was canceled due to COVID-19. UNO Class will join Lewis and Clark Middle School to design butterfly garden and then build the garden. Students will learn both part of the project.