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Posts tagged ‘pollution’

Getting Students Outside with Five Steps to Reduce Plastic Use

Creating community action with plastic-free initiatives

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Harmful Algal Blooms

Exploring solutions to a blooming problem

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Healthy Schools, Bright Futures

Engaging students and the school community in win-win-win actions
to tackle climate change, address eco-anxiety, and improve health

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Youth Transforming Transit

The benefits public transit can have on our youth, schools, and the community

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Pollinating Hope

Using a pollinator garden to galvanize an environmental club

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Turn The Key To Be Idle Free

Implementing No Idle Zones in schools helps the environment and improves student’s health

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Green Commuting Challenge

How a suburban middle school radically increased the number of students walking and reduced car traffic to the school

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Where Does the Plastic Go?

Using Socio-Scientific Issues in the classroom to study plastic pollution in the ocean and the physical properties of plastics

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Stormwater Stewards

Stormwater science lab and field activities for middle and high school students

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Organizing Youth Environmental Summits

For middle and high school students, the concepts of visual pollution and transportation are excellent entry points for studying the complex issues involved in community growth and planning. In Kentucky, we have had great success introducing these concepts through two Youth Environmental Summits that attracted teams of students from 8 schools in 2003 and from 16 schools in 2005. This article will explore some of the benefits and challenges of organizing such events on a state- or province-wide basis.

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