This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community. Various filters are provided to gain a better understanding of how different UNO units collaborate with the community.
| Project | Project Focus Areas | Community Partners | Campus Partners | Engagement Type: | Activity Type: | Other Activity Type: | Start Semester: | Start Academic Year: | End Semester: | End Academic Year: | Total UNO Students: | UNO Students Hours: | UNO Faculty/Staff Hours: | Total K-12 Students: | K-12 Student Hours: | Total Number of Other Participants: | Topics: | Other Topics: | Description: | Subtags: |
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| Chemistry Water Testing (Fall 2017): 2017-18 | Environmental Stewardship | Northwest High School, Omaha Public Schools, Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance | Chemistry, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Fall | 2017-18 | None | None | 3 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 28 | 0 | Clean Water/Water Management | 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. | ||
| Communication and K2 Awareness (Fall 2017): 2017-18 | Health and Wellness | Benson High School, Omaha Public Schools, Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance | Communication, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Fall | 2017-18 | None | None | 19 | 142 | 0 | 23 | 109 | 0 | Health Awareness | 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. | ||
| Water Quality Testing (Spring 2017): 2016-17 | Environmental Stewardship | Northwest High School, Omaha Public Schools, Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance | Chemistry, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Spring | 2016-17 | None | None | 12 | 48 | 0 | 27 | 108 | 0 | Clean Water/Water Management | 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. |