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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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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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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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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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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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
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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Health and Education
Research Barriers to Participation and Representation
Health and Education
I will spend at least 10 minutes learning more about the barriers to women's equal participation and representation around the world.
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Health and Education
Women are at the front of Farmer's Protests in India
Read the article below and reflect on the event with your advisory and independently.
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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?
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Health and EducationWomen are at the front of Farmer's Protests in India
What is the link between women and agriculture? What vital roles do women traditionally play in the farm-to-table cycle in India?
Some barriers that stand in the way of women's equal participation are that if people are not aware of climate change they are not aware of the barriers or women. Another barrier is pay men and boys get more opportunities and get paid for it, unlike women or girls.
I think that the accomplishments of African Civilization have been obscured because they don't realize that all their culture and money and traditions are originally from the great country of Africa other than that we really don't know.
What can you do to either lower your carbon footprint OR "offset your carbon footprint. When you "offset" you basically pay it forward---you do something kind for the environment or another person to balance out your carbon use if you can't reduce it.
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?
Telling one person every day that climate change or global warming is not the problem it is us and that animals are going extinct so much faster than the normal rate and trees are getting cut down faster than ever animals that were here before we will be gone because of us, Lions, Rinos, Tigers, Panda, Elephants, and many more are gone because of us this will help because then more people will beware of our situation and taking action and bringing even more awareness to other people.ALL GONE
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.
sometimes I feel like I am trapped behind a window not able to go outside and enjoy myself but to go outside with a piece of cotton strapped to my face it feels so distant not being able to have a playdate and then convince your parents to make it a sleepover. I swear if I see another little tiny box on my computer screen with one of my friends on it, I swear I will lose my mind!!! the lockdown has shaped me into a big fat pretzel.
You're right it's super frustrating to be inside looking out all the time! I really hope we can get outside more during school---we're planning on it! That crisp fall air is calling out names. Hang in there Sophia!
No, I don't think that the voting should be voting to 16 It is important to vote but it should not be brought down to 16 because they have just started high school and will not make very good or mature votes for politics it is very important to vote if not we would not have any leader and that would be caused to do totally immature things because there would be no laws everyone should be able to vote all colors and all religions are equally important to our world
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 American land The Lenape took care of the land by using it as an advantage with hunting and I promise to preserve the story and cultures of the Lenape by celebrating this day
Jess Norris 12/09/2020 7:09 AMVictoria wrote something very similar. You should team up!
