Projects Report

This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.

Engagement Type: Service Learning
Activity Type: Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 3
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 3
End Semester: None
Total K-12 Students: 19
End Academic Year: None
K-12 Student Hours: 28
Total Number of Other Participants: 0
Topics: Clean Water/Water Management

Description : AP Chemistry students from Northwest High School and general chemistry students from UNO will test water from various homes around Omaha for lead. They will also test the theory that running water for a certain amount of seconds (5,10,15,30) decreases the lead contents to a safe level. They will learn how to use water testing instrumentation and about reporting results for the general public. They are working with Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance to raise awareness of water quality in Omaha as well as providing geographic information about lead content in different areas of the city. The NW High School students will visit UNO to get a tour, gather the water samples from the community, test them at UNO (with UNO students), and then debrief with OHKA and UNO students about the results and what they can do with those results.
Engagement Type: Service Learning
Activity Type: Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 19
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 142
End Semester: None
Total K-12 Students: 23
End Academic Year: None
K-12 Student Hours: 109
Total Number of Other Participants: 0
Topics: Health Awareness

Description : Students from Professor Marlina Davidson’s Public Speaking Fundamentals course and Ms. Marcie Muhammad’s 10th grade English class will create presentations bringing drug awareness to the Omaha community. This P-16 service learning project highlights the effects synthetic drugs have on the Omaha community and schools. This project reinforces classroom curriculum for UNO and Benson High School students by furthering cultivating their public speaking and presentation skills.
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.
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