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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| Etiquette Through Music (Spring 2018): 2017-18 | Arts, Culture and Humanities, Educational Support | Courteous Kids, Western Hills Elementary, Omaha Public Schools | Music, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Spring | 2017-18 | None | None | 11 | 220 | 0 | 12 | 132 | 0 | Youth Programming, Music/Dance | In partnership with Courteous Kids, UNO elementary music students work with Western Hills Elementary School students who participate in the music elective course and are participants of etiquette classes. The UNO students develop piggyback songs in order to help the Western Hills students remember the etiquette rules they learned in etiquette class. Together they practice the songs and they will be applying their songs at their culminating event, a luncheon. Courteous Kids presented information to students near end of project. | ||
| Etiquette through Music (Spring 2017): 2016-17 | Arts, Culture and Humanities, Educational Support | Courteous Kids, Western Hills Elementary, Omaha Public Schools | Music, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Spring | 2016-17 | None | None | 8 | 130 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 0 | Youth Programming, Music/Dance | |||
| Etiquette Through Music (Spring 2019): 2018-19 (1070) | Arts, Culture and Humanities, Educational Support | Courteous Kids, Western Hills Elementary, Omaha Public Schools | Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Spring | 2018-19 | Spring | 2018-19 | 7 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Youth Programming, Music/Dance | Students from UNO Instructor Shelly Cooper’s class work with students at Western Hills Elementary and wrote songs about manners for them to sing. Mary Budz from Courteous Kidz also helped at WH with teaching manners for meal time. The students at WH then met at UNO (CEC 201) to have a luncheon to practice their manners over a pasta lunch. They sang songs about manners that UNO students had written. | ||
| Band Buddies (Fall 2022): 2022-23 (2802) | Arts, Culture and Humanities | Western Hills Elementary, Omaha Public Schools | Music, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | None | None | Fall | 2022-23 | Fall | 2022-23 | 99 | 594 | 0 | 7 | 35 | 1 | Education | Students from Western Hills Elementary School will visit UNO to participate in a variety of music-related experiences. They will observe the UNO Symphonic Wind Ensemble, discuss marching band basics with a UNO student majoring in music education, and be paired up with a member of the UNO marching band to participate in marching band rehearsal. P-16 service learning project MUS 2750.001/3610.001/4160.001 | ||
| Marching Band Buddies (Fall 2019): 2019-20 (1170) | Arts, Culture and Humanities, Educational Support | Western Hills Elementary, Omaha Public Schools | Music, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Fall | 2019-20 | Fall | 2019-20 | 11 | 33 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 0 | Music/Dance | College band students from Josh Kearney’s MUS 3610 partner up with a 6th grade students from Western Hills Elementary. Students learned marching band techniques taught by UNO students and built relationships with UNO students. The college students also get to develop their teaching skills during this interaction. | ||
| Etiquette Through Music (Spring 2020): 2019-20 (1209) | Arts, Culture and Humanities, Educational Support | Courteous Kids, Western Hills Elementary, Omaha Public Schools | Music, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Service Learning | Course | None | Spring | 2019-20 | Spring | 2019-20 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | Youth Programming, Music/Dance | This project was canceled due to the transition to remote learning. UNO Elementary Music Methods students will be teaching etiquette to students at Western Hills Elementary School with the help of community partner Courteous Kids. UNO students will create original piggyback songs, which change the lyrics of popular songs to teach a specific lesson. The students will have the opportunity to use this method to teach important life skills to elementary students. |