Ongoing Curriculum Enhancement Work
Florida Parks Project
Thanks to a Sustainability Enhancement Award, I was able to launch the Florida Parks Project in 2021. The collaborative project encourages students to connect the ideas they’ve learned in class to Florida’s culturally significant natural sites.
As the final assignment of a term, the Florida Parks Project invites students to map the ideas and concepts they’ve learned throughout the course onto a state park site they’ve likely not considered in terms of material culture, identity or heritage. The most impressive student presentations are being catalogued and will eventually be included on the Florida Parks Project website.
Building out the website has been a long process, but the end result will be a completely Santa Fe College student-authored guide to the award-winning Florida State Park system – one that presents the 195 parks in terms of cultural heritage and identity and explains how our natural landscape informs the way we see ourselves as Floridians.
