Lorenzo DiPentima
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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!
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.
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!
Action Track: Social Justice
Songwriting
I used my creativity and self expression to write a song about the current times. OR I researched and shared a song about the current times.
Coastal, Ocean, and Engineered Sinks
For the love of nature
Post a photo of something from nature that you love and want to protect.
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?
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 :)
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)
Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
Eliminating food waste during Thanksgiving (or other big meals!)
Watch the video and respond to the reflection questions below :).
Action Track: Healing & Renewal
Climate Change Action
Watch the film and respond to the reflection question :)
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.
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.
Electricity
Carbon Footprint Calculator
Use the link below to calculate your own Carbon Footprint.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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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REFLECTION QUESTIONAction Track: Healing & Renewal BLM/BHMHow can this guiding principle show up in our school community on a regular basis?
Lorenzo DiPentima 2/24/2021 5:54 AMI am going to reflect on number one. I think that this is a good guiding principle because it is very catch-all. it basically means that everyone is created equal and that e should fight for the rights of anyone being mistreated.-
Tom Cruise 3/01/2023 1:14 AMI find that the students all love the game called flappy bird. with just click gameplay, but it makes millions of people sit for hours in front of the computer to conquer this game.
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REFLECTION QUESTIONIndustry Time's Kid of the Year: Water Quality Tester EngineerIf you suddenly had the ability to invent a device that helps humanity, what would it do? (draw a pic and upload it you can!)
Lorenzo DiPentima 12/09/2020 5:57 AMit would be a device that allows items to teleport from one place to another. so starving people could have food -
REFLECTION QUESTIONLand Sinks Learning to FlyWatch 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.
Lorenzo DiPentima 10/28/2020 6:01 AMmy favorite place is in South Carolina. it is my mom's cousin's nature center. it has animal skeletons, animals in tanks, and my personal favorite, the baby alligators. there are also snakes, frogs, a moose antler as long as you if you lie down, and once I even fed a huge carnivorous fish called a grouper! I had to feed it with tongs, and It struck so fast it almost made me fall off my stool! here is a picture of a grouper.-
Jess Norris 10/28/2020 9:44 AMWhoa!!
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REFLECTION QUESTIONAction Track: Justice for the Whole Community Voting RightsWhat does it mean to be able to vote? Should the voting age be lowered to 16?
Lorenzo DiPentima 10/21/2020 6:00 AMbeing able to vote means having a voice in the presidential election without being a bureaucrat. and I don't think the voting age should be lowered because we want people to be able to vote responsibly. -
REFLECTION QUESTIONAction Track: Justice for the Whole Community Native Land and Practices AcknowledgementWrite 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 ___________.
Lorenzo DiPentima 10/14/2020 5:55 AM1 Lenape 2lenape 3 using every part of the animals they killed 4teaching it to my friends and family -
REFLECTION QUESTIONAction Track: Social Justice SongwritingWhat are the lyrics?
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REFLECTION QUESTIONHealth and Education Sir David Attenborough: The Voice of Planet Earth Speaks on Climate ChangeWhat question would you ask Sir David Attenborough? Post a picture of your favorite outdoor spot in NY
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Lorenzo DiPentima 9/30/2020 6:05 AMI think that if/when we go into the building that we should practice social distancing and wear masks at all times and wash our hands frequently -
REFLECTION QUESTIONCoastal, Ocean, and Engineered Sinks For the love of natureDescribe your photo and why you chose it!
Lorenzo DiPentima 9/30/2020 6:02 AMI really like that kind of bat and I think they are cute and I read that they are fruit-eaters -
Lorenzo DiPentima 9/30/2020 5:58 AMI want to preserve this species of bat