Environmental Conservation Classes for Grades K-2
Reusing, Reducing and Recycling
Synopsis
Rudy Scruples knows that something bad could happen if she doesn’t do her part to take care of the environment, she just doesn’t know what. With the help of your students, The Fantastigators, and their eccentric and excitable leader, Dr. Hector Foulodor, Rudy learns how her actions could effect the environment and what to reduce, what to reuse, and what to recycle.
Educational Objectives
- To help students to understand the path trash takes after it has been thrown away
- To define reducing, reusing and recycling
- To help students distinguish between objects that can and can’t be reduced, reused and recycled
Audience size: 35 students maximum
Running time: 40 minutes
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Barrel Burning Prevention
Synopsis
Environmentalist Ed Stern is having a heck of a time attracting a crowd to his booth at the State Fair. Luckily, Abracadabra Anderson and her family of astounding magicians are willing to help him add a little magic to his presentation. As your students play the part of the Andersons, they learn how a piece of trash, once burned, gives off poisonous gases that can harm the plants, animals, and humans that live nearby. Students also learn alternatives to barrel burning.
Educational Objectives
- To define barrel burning
- To help students understand some of the negative consequences barrel burning has on the environment and on the health of living things.
- To teach alternatives families can use instead of barrel burning
- To motivate students to reduce the waste that they personally create
- To help students develop a concern for the natural environment they live in
Audience size: 35 students maximum
Running time: 40 minutes
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Environmental Protection Classes for Grades 3-6
Reducing, Reusing and Recycling
Synopsis
It’s a good thing that Françoise and Mercedes, curators of the Trash Museum, are such entertaining tour guides! They make learning about the environment fun and interesting! Through an engaging physical activity, students recognize that every action is the result of a choice; through the use of intriguing props and small-group discussion, students discover which items can be reduced, reused and recycled; and through a humorous sketch, students understand the path of waste after it has been thrown away.
Educational Objectives
- To help students understand what a landfill is, and what they can do to reduce the need for indiscriminate disposal
- To help students understand the negative consequences of burning trash
- To discuss the Three R’s as a possible solution to reducing the amount of trash that ends up in landfills
- To teach what hazardous waste means, to provide examples of what it is, why it is harmful, and what we can do to dispose of it properly
- To provide students with practice talking to adults and peers about the impact of their choices on the environment
Audience size: 35 students maximum
Running time: 40 minutes
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Barrel Burning Prevention
Synopsis
Students in this engaging and hilarious class create a silly sound orchestra, participate in an interplanetary debate, and re-create the process of combustion through a highly physical game. All of this leads students to understand some of the negative effects barrel burning has on the environment and on the health of living things. Students also role-play conversations they can have with their parents about barrel burning.
Educational Objectives
- To give students a clear explanation of the biological process of barrel burning
- To help students understand some of the negative consequences barrel burning has on the environment and on the health of living things.
- To make students aware of alternatives their families have to open burning
- To motivate students to reduce the waste that they personally create
- To help students develop a concern for the natural environment they live in
- To give students the opportunity to practice speaking with the adults in their lives about adopting more responsible environmental behavior
Audience size: 35 students maximum
Running time: 40 minutes
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Environmental Conservation Classes for Grades 6-12
Global Climate Change
Synopsis
In the year 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize for its work on researching and spreading the facts about global warming. This engaging and thought provoking CLIMB class spreads these same facts to teenagers, helping them to understand the impact their actions have on their natural environment. Students watch scenes, participate in whole group activities, and hold small group discussions, all designed to help them learn about global warming and what they can do to limit or even reverse its effects.
Educational Objectives
- To help students trace the effects their actions have on the concentration of greenhouse gases (notably carbon dioxide and methane) in the earth’s atmosphere
- To share the logic that a majority of scientists use to support ideas about the effects of greenhouse gases on climate change (global warming)
- To share the possible geological, oceanographic and meteorological effects of climate change
- To brainstorm the effects that these geological, oceanographic, and meteorological changes could have on human life
- To brainstorm the actions students can take to contribute to the limitation or reversal of the effects of global warming
- To help students to envision a lifestyle that would include the changes they have brainstormed
Audience size: 35 students maximum
Running time: 40 minutes
Cost: click here
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