Barchelle Nicolas
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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!
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
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)
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: 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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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 QUESTIONHealth and Education Why have the accomplishments of African Civilizations been obscured?Why have the accomplishments of African Civilizations been obscured? How can we sustain these accomplishments and their impact?
Barchelle Nicolas 3/17/2021 5:57 AMthe accomplishments of African civilizations have been up scared mostly because of slavery and skin color. What mean by this is that because slavery has been around for so long in places like Africa, whenever a huge accomplishment is made it's not really shown in society because everyone wants to avoid a place like that and that's why think people mostly avoid it. we can sustain these accomplishments in their impact. I think we can do this by making any accomplishment big. talking about it, sharing it with friends. Make it seem like it's not something weird made from "Africa" and make it seem like something cool that was just- made. -
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!)
Barchelle Nicolas 12/09/2020 5:48 AMThe first thing that came to mind when I read that question was an invention to bring filtered water to every sink that needs it. For example to the kids in Haiti or Africa or India. I just feel so sad about the fact that not a lot of kids have the option to wake up everyday and go to the sink to wash their flash or flush the toilet without having to walk 5 miles with a huge heavy bucket in their hands. -
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 ___________.
Barchelle Nicolas 12/02/2020 6:00 AMI stand on native land. The Native Americans took care of the land by using up all their resources and reusing their trash. I promise to preserve the story and culture of the Lenape by, posting about what they did, and doing my best to take care of the land as they did. -
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?
Barchelle Nicolas 12/02/2020 5:57 AMWhat it means to vote is that you vote for something that you strongly believe in. For example the vote between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. In this election, people over 18, voted for who they see as the fittest to run for president of the United States. in this case the majority of people voted for Joe Biden. I think that the age of voting should be lowered to 16 because I feel that at 16 you do have noticed over what is wrong and what is right and even though you are not a full adult, you vote will matter because it will be even more people voting. -
REFLECTION QUESTIONAction Track: Healing & Renewal Climate Change ActionWhat'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?
Barchelle Nicolas 12/02/2020 5:54 AMone thing that I can do in my daily life 2 slowed down and appreciate our world is probably taking a stop in the park to look at all the flowers or water my plants if I have any. Competing to be the best contributes to the human impact on the environment because when you are competing to be the best you do not care what troubles come in front of you, you just want to be the best, but when you are concentrated on doing the good that's when you take caution to every problem in front of you and try to fix them before you go on. -
REFLECTION QUESTIONCoastal, Ocean, and Engineered Sinks For the love of natureDescribe your photo and why you chose it!
Barchelle Nicolas 9/24/2020 6:10 PM
1. Baby pandas are just so cute
2. They are too cute
3. I cannot let this die know that it is that cute and us humans destroyed their habitat -
REFLECTION QUESTIONAction Track: Social Justice SongwritingWhat are the lyrics?
Barchelle Nicolas 9/24/2020 6:01 PMBlack lives matter and that's the truth, black lives matter yes i'm talking to you. Black lives matter that's the end of the line, blacks lives matter and that's a goodnight-
Jess Norris 9/30/2020 5:30 AM
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REFLECTION QUESTIONAction Track: Justice for the Whole Community Sustainable BUGSWhat is one action you want to see happen this year to help sustain the BUGS community? It can be something that sustains the people in our community or the environment. *remember: to "sustain" means to keep going. In this case how to we keep going this year in a healthy and happy way?
Barchelle Nicolas 9/23/2020 5:56 AMI think that we can go on more trips. Weather it would be fun gardening trips or trips to the amusement park. I think that these trips would help keep everyone sane during (not to be rude but) boring school hours all day. And we could even make the trips sustainable