Environment

Environment

In environment projects, students connect with their peers to examine and compare local environmental issues, such as river quality, climate change, deforestation, and pollution in order to create global solutions. Students debate, write letters, do cleanups, create gardens, conduct recycling campaigns or pitch their solutions to environmental challenges.

Our Rivers, Our World

Through river excursions, water analysis, and interviewing environmental experts in the community, students study the impact of human behavior on river health in several countries and share findings to address problems. Students sample the water from local rivers in their community and share their findings with other classes to understand the environmental impact of current practices and government regulation (or its absence) on the rivers around the world. Students may be inspired to participate in or create programs that promote the health of the rivers in their communities.

“Students’ words at the end of the project were ‘our job does not stop at the end of the presentation of this project, because environmental issues are not just to be dealt with in front of an audience; we have to act.’” ~ Kheira, Coordinator, Algeria