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| Photo Credit: Basil Henning |
For the November Wave of Action, COA compiled educational
materials from national and international sources that creatively and clearly
present complex climate issues.
Materials were sorted by topic and age with resources available
for K-12. Topics
included Climate Change, Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Your Carbon Footprint,
Greenhouse Gases, and the Science Behind Hurricanes and Superstorm Sandy.
Over 87 educators throughout New York and New Jersey, and
even Australia, who represented 77 schools, 6 groups, 1 Cub Scout Troop,
and 3 homeschoolers, signed up to bring the resources into their classrooms.
“I envision that in the future these 5th
graders could find themselves in a meaningful conversation where they can
contribute their ideas in their second language to help the environment. We stressed in class that these issues were
not isolated to New Jersey or to the United States, but rather a global issue
that demands we work together internationally,” explained Knollwood
School Spanish Teacher Basil Henning.
“Thank you for the abundance of educational
information that you provided for my students. I was happy to participate and I
believe my students gained tremendous insight into the conditions that set
these storms into motion and the devastation that they can cause to the
communities that they impact,” stated Woodlynne Public School Science Teacher
Renae Vannais.
Climate change education is important every day of the year,
especially now in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. Many voices around the world
are making the connection between the Typhoon and climate change. In fact, the UN Conference on Climate Change is currently meeting in Poland.
Join us in
celebrating the culmination of Waves of Action For The Shore, Clean Ocean
Action’s year-long Sandy response program, on Saturday, December 7 from
8:30AM-12:00PM at McLoone’s Pier House in Long Branch, NJ. Almost
14,000 volunteers (and counting) have helped to improve and protect the marine
environment through 281 projects, with more than 100 different organizations,
in over 70 towns in New York and New Jersey.
For more information and to reserve your seat at this breakfast event, click here.
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