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Pollution & Climate Change

Babatunde Ogunnaike

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“Students for Change”

  • Students for Change is a class intended to educate students on the severity and importance of climate change
  • The goal is to make students aware of the damage pollution is doing to our earth and create solutions
  • What better way to bring change and make the Earth better in the future than educating the students of tomorrow?

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Curriculum and Focus

  • Growing up I was taught the basics…
  • Pollution is bad
  • Don’t litter
  • Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
  • It wouldn’t hurt to go into more detail and allow students become more aware of the severity of climate change
  • The curriculum should be fun and exciting, something that grabs their attention and really opens their eyes to the issues we have at hand
  • Introducing artists who focus on these issues can inspire students to make a change or leave a mark

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Artists

  • Olga Mercedes Bautista
  • Her interest in re- appropriating nature consists in creating new forms by bending organic debris with plastic. A blending process is obtained by bonding layers of the tree bark

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Programs and Activities

  • Students for Change can also provide after school activities and programs for underprivileged children and students who may show signs of criminality at an early age
  • Keeping them occupied with fun activities and programs can reduce the likeliness of them getting into trouble
  • Volunteer work and community service can come into play as well, for example going to community parks and picking up litter and etc.
  • Not only is this for a good cause but it can benefit them in the future when applying for colleges and can increase their chances of admission

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Field Trips

  • Coming from experience, a class trip is what any typical student looks forward to during the school year
  • A more effective way than telling students would be showing them in the for of artwork, sculptures, paintings, drawings and etc.
  • A museum that portrays works of climate change and pollution would be a great way to inform them