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Fifth graders engage in a year-long environmental standards-based study about the local environment, environmental stewardship, and climate change. This learning is supported, in part, by a two-year SUASCO grant, and occurs with the help of Massachusetts Audubon's Drumlin Farm Naturalists. In addition, the State of Massachusetts' Department of Education is offering consultation and some funding for this project as part of a year-long program evaluation pilot in 2019-2020. During the Summer of 2019, Wayland Public Schools provided summer funding for educators to make this project more interdisciplinary as well. The project is ongoing.
Fifth graders engage in a year-long environmental standards-based study about the local environment, environmental stewardship, and climate change. This learning is supported, in part, by a two-year SUASCO grant, and occurs with the help of Massachusetts Audubon's Drumlin Farm Naturalists. In addition, the State of Massachusetts' Department of Education is offering consultation and some funding for this project as part of a year-long program evaluation pilot in 2019-2020. During the Summer of 2019, Wayland Public Schools provided summer funding for educators to make this project more interdisciplinary as well. The project is ongoing.
On Friday, September 20th, Happy Hollow students participated in the world-wide Climate March on the Happy Hollow School playground. Our school environmental leader, Deborah Niles, rallied the school teachers and led The March planning and event. To prepare for the march, teachers used the videos below, songs, chants, and a poster-making activity to ready the students for this worldwide effort to care for Planet Earth.
On Friday, September 20th, Happy Hollow students participated in the world-wide Climate March on the Happy Hollow School playground. Our school environmental leader, Deborah Niles, rallied the school teachers and led The March planning and event. To prepare for the march, teachers used the videos below, songs, chants, and a poster-making activity to ready the students for this worldwide effort to care for Planet Earth.
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- Who is Greta Thunberg?
- What is climate change?
- What is nonviolent protest? What is the history of nonviolent protest?
- What is the climate change march? Who is getting involved?
- How did the movement take shape at Happy Hollow School? What can we do?
Kim Flanzer, our naturalist coach shared these resources:
- https://climatekids.nasa.gov/menu/teach/
- https://www.climate.gov/teaching
- http://climatechangeconnection.org/resources/climate-friendly-schools/resources-for-schools/
- http://www.nea.org/climatechange
- https://cleanet.org/index.html
- https://www.massaudubon.org/our-conservation-work/climate-change
- https://smile.amazon.com/Low-Carbon-Diet-Pounds-Be-Solution/dp/0963032720/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1541098184&sr=1-1&keywords=low+carbon+diet
- 2019 Happy Hollow TeamFive Climate Change Video
Ideas for Climate Change Projects:
As individuals, we can:
Take steps to increase the energy efficiency of our cars, homes, and power plants by adjusting our thermostats, adding insulation, driving fewer miles, maintaining proper tire pressure, etc. Recycle, because every product requires energy, and thus emissions, to produce and transport. Address the supply-and-demand part of the problem by using our consumer spending power wisely. Buying green products and replacing old appliances with new ones that have an "energy star" rating are two good ways consumers can positively influence the free market while lowering energy consumption. On the national and international level, policy leaders can explore options to:
Capture the carbon emitted by power plants and other human sources, and store it underground.
Provide incentives to help fossil fuel-burning power plants lower or eliminate their carbon emissions.
Meet an ever-increasing percentage of our energy needs using alternative, non-carbon-producing sources-including nuclear, solar, wind, hydroelectric, and bio-fuels.
Halt deforestation and soil degradation worldwide, while reforesting more areas.
While a large-scale adoption of these strategies will come at a cost, climate scientists and economists agree that the longer-term cost of inaction will be much greater.
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