 The PRIDE initiative will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2007.
The 2006-2007 PRIDE Club Project is designed to give students a central role in commemorating this milestone.
The region's PRIDE Clubs will be the lead investigators in the region-wide PRIDE Oral History Project. This ambitious project will collect stories about PRIDE from the citizens, local officials and students who have contributed to or benefited from the initiative. The goal is to portray the need for PRIDE when it began in 1997, the progress made since then and, finally, the work to be done in the future.
The PRIDE Club Project will become part of our oral history. That means students’ work will be:
- Used as sources for a commemorative video and book about PRIDE, which will be produced next year.
- Archived at the University of Kentucky as a permanent record of our region’s progress in reclaiming our environment.
Folklorist Dale Johnson is guiding the PRIDE Oral History Project. He will visit schools and help students prepare to discuss the environmental past with members of their community.
PRIDE Expedition
The 2006-2007 PRIDE Club Project is a learning expedition into each county’s environmental past. Each PRIDE Club will work as a team to discover the story of the community’s relationship with its environment, focusing on water and solid waste issues.
Along the way, students will gain knowledge about local environmental issues and attitudes and how they have changed over time. Through discussions with family members, neighbors and local officials, they will discover what our environment used to look like and why we had to begin changing the way we think about stewardship. This will be a chance to share with others what they have learned through PRIDE.
Recipients of 2006 PRIDE Environmental Education Grants are eligible to participate in the PRIDE Club Project. Information about the project was mailed to all grant recipients. (Click here to view the memo that was mailed on Sept. 6, 2006.)
Expedition Maps
Each PRIDE Club can determine the route of its expedition. For guidance, we prepared three “maps” with activities that are age-appropriate and tied to Kentucky Core Content.
PRIDE Clubs do not have to choose the map recommended for their age level. In fact, we would like as many PRIDE Clubs as possible to tackle the “High School Expedition: Record Interviews with Community Members and Leaders.”
PRIDE Clubs can chart their own course by adapting the activities in any map to the students’ abilities and interests.
PRIDE Clubs should review all three expedition maps. To open the maps as PDFs, click on their titles below. Each PDF contains all materials related to that map. Just print the PDF for a complete copy of the map. (However, the high school map includes suggested hyperlinks to separate web sites for further research by students. The material on those web sites will not print with the PDF.)
Starting Point
PRIDE Clubs should first select their expedition map. Then, we ask that they return a project registration card by Sept. 20, 2006. The registration card was in a PRIDE Club Project packet that was mailed to all PRIDE Education Grant recipients on Sept. 6, 2006. (Click here to view the memo from that packet.)
Final Destination
The final destination for all expeditions will be a PRIDE Club Project Entry Form that summarizes the club's findings, with supporting materials. Project entries will be incorporated into the PRIDE Oral History Project. Entries are due Jan. 26, 2007.
In addition, each PRIDE Club will create a record of the expedition to be shared with its community, such as a journal presented to the local library. Each PRIDE Club will design its own local record of the expedition, but some ideas are suggested in each map.
More Information
For more information about the PRIDE Club Project, call PRIDE education staff members Sara Gilbert, Jason Nally or Jennifer Johnson at 888/356-6527. |
