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Rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have already taken their toll on the environment--rising temperatures and sea levels, melting glaciers and ice caps, increasing rainfall and storm intensity, are just harbingers of things to come if we don’t adopt more sustainable technologies. Education is the key.
Here at E. O. Smith High School’s Depot Campus, we serve a diverse population of students looking for a different path to success. We focus on individualized, real-world learning experiences and an emphasis on basic academic skills and real-life purpose. We are proposing a summer enrichment program that would educate students about climate change by involving them in real-world projects that make a real difference.
Students will build and plant gardens and use them to test and demonstrate environmentally sustainable farming methods. They will study sustainable technologies like solar energy, wind power, and composting, and build engineering projects that demonstrate these technologies. They will create a mural for the school building on the theme of sustainability. They will study the math they need to solve problems like these. And finally, they will plan, market, and host a community sustainability fair in the fall at which time they will showcase their products.
This program will help them overcome their credit and academic deficiencies while instilling in them a sense of social responsibility and the urgency of climate change, and the skills to do something about it.
The program will involve up to twenty students in 8 days of work, and they will receive 0.5 science credits, additional math credit, science, math and engineering skills and experience, and exciting products to share with the community.
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