"We have to make a sustainable future by working together."
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Health and Education
Become a certified Climate Ambassador!
The Climate Museum in NYC is working with local teens to form a Climate Volunteer Coalition! The first step is to educate yourself on the main talking points around climate change. Next, share your knowledge!
To help you do this, the Climate Museum has produced a pocket-sized "Climate Ambassador" card. Read the instructions, print the card, cut/fold, and start talking to the people! If you don't have a printer--make your own!
https://climatemuseum.org/ambassador
**With parent permission** You can also sign up on the Climate Museum website for more info. You can even post a reflection that the Museum will publish on their website for all to see!
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Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
Climate Change and Wildfires: How is climate change affecting you? Our hometown? And what can we do now?
First, the article about the CA wildfires and climate change.
Climate Change In Your Hometown
The featured article discusses the connection between climate change and California wildfires. Another Times article, from 2018, lets you track how the number of days when temperatures hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) or higher changes in your hometown over your lifetime.
As you look at the graph created based on your hometown and the year you were born, what do you notice? (If you want, try entering the birth year of your parents or grandparents as well.) Then, scroll to see the climate predictions for your hometown when you are 80 years old. Continue to scroll to learn more about these predictions, and then see how your hometown compares to other parts of the country and the world using the interactive globe.
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Health and Education
Sir David Attenborough: The Voice of Planet Earth Speaks on Climate Change
After you watch the video with your advisory, answer the reflection question below.
For additional points, respond to a teammate's post!
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Action Track: Social Justice
Songwriting
I used my creativity and self expression to write a song about the current times.
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I researched and shared a song about the current times.
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Coastal, Ocean, and Engineered Sinks
For the love of nature
Post a photo of something from nature that you love and want to protect.
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DAILY ACTIONS
Action Track: Justice for the Whole Community
Voting Rights
After you listen to the StoryCorp episode about voting rights, reflect on what it means to vote. Check in with the adults in your life-are they planning on voting? Why or why not?
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Action Track: Justice for the Whole Community
Native Land and Practices Acknowledgement
Native Land Acknowledgement means to learn about, talk about, and show respect for the Native inhabitants of an area of land. We do this for many reasons: to correct history, protect and preserve the culture and identity of native peoples, acknowledge the role of European colonization in the loss of native lives and lands.
For this activity, read about the Lenape. The tribe indigenous to Brooklyn, Queens , and Manhattan. Who are they, what was NYC like before colonization? How can we honor the Lenape today? (links below)
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Action Track: Justice for the Whole Community
Sustainable BUGS
The goal of this action to create a more sustainable school experience for our students and staff :)
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Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
Eliminating food waste during Thanksgiving (or other big meals!)
Watch the video and respond to the reflection questions below :).
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Action Track: Healing & Renewal
Climate Change Action
Watch the film and respond to the reflection question :)
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Industry
Time's Kid of the Year: Water Quality Tester Engineer
Gitanjali Rao is the first “Time’s Kid of the Year”. She is being recognized for inventing a device that detects lead in drinking water.
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Land Sinks
Learning to Fly
Our surroundings, the environment--natural and manmade---have a huge impact on our life story. Watch the video together and then share a memory of your home, your neighborhood, or another special place that has helped you become who you are today.
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Electricity
Carbon Footprint Calculator
Use the link below to calculate your own Carbon Footprint.
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Action Track: Healing & Renewal
BLM/BHM
The Black Lives Matter Movement drafted 13 Guiding Principles. These principles were created in order to heal and sustain our communities. Read through the Guiding Principles. Choose at least one to reflect upon.
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Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
We are all connected: Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Of course, she was not the first African woman to deserve a Nobel Peace Prize but racism, colonialism, and sexism have long played into this award.
Read about Maathai, a biologist and activist, and reflect on what Americans can learn about her work and apply to our own hemisphere.
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Health and Education
Jaysa Miller and Youth Voices for the Planet
Climate Change and pollution disproportionately affect Black Americans and communities of color.
Young people like Jaysa Miller have had enough. Miller is working to unveil and hold developers, policymakers, and factory owners accountable for the risk they put communities in.
Learn about her work by watching the video below!
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Health and Education
Why have the accomplishments of African Civilizations been obscured?
Harvard professor and filmmaker Henry Louis Gates Jr. is interviewed by Audie Cornish about his series Africa’s Great Civilizations.
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Participant Feed
Reflection, encouragement, and relationship building are all important aspects of getting a new habit to stick.
Share thoughts, encourage others, and reinforce positive new habits on the Feed.
To get started, share “your why.” Why did you join the challenge and choose the actions you did?
REFLECTION
QUESTION
Action Track: Healing & RenewalBLM/BHM
How can this guiding principle show up in our school community on a regular basis?
Accomplishments of African Civilizations have been obscured because a lot of people have had a skewed view of Africa because of films like Tarzan. We can sustain these accomplishments and their impact by learning about them and using what they changed or created.
What's one thing you can do in your daily life to slow down and appreciate our world--the people and the planet?
How can you concentrate on doing more "good" instead of competing for "the best"?
How has competing to be the best contributed to human impact on the environment?
I think I could stop and appreciate the animals that I see in NY. I can be thankful for what I already have instead of wanting more. People who compete against others did think about their actions.
Food, Agriculture, and Land UseEliminating food waste during Thanksgiving (or other big meals!)
What is one method of food waste reduction (or food saving!) Priya and Dominique talk about in the video
What is one thing you can do this Thanksgiving weekend to cut down on food waste (and other types of waste!)
Watch the video together and then share a memory of your home, your neighborhood, or another special place that has helped you become who you are today.
What it means to vote is to make a change and an impact on everyone's life. The voting age should be lowered because we all have opinions too and we want to be able to express those opinions as soon as possible.
Action Track: Justice for the Whole CommunityNative Land and Practices Acknowledgement
Write a native land acknowledgement. I stand on ___________ land. The _________________ took care of the land by _______________. I promise to preserve the story and culture of the Lenape by ___________.
I stand on broken land. The Lenape took care of the land by respecting and loving nature. I promise to preserve the story and culture of the Lenape by informing people of their story and to protect their land.
Sir David Attenborough, Do you think if we were to follow the steps to making a sustainable future and to lower pollution, Would we be able to undo the damage we have already done?
Gabriel Holden 10/07/2020 6:04 AMthats a really good question hunter, very thoughtful