Marion C. Moore middle school students are talking with students from different countries about a shared environmental project. UofL professor Mary Brydon Miller, from the College of 成人直播 and Human Development, is coordinating the global education effort to bring kids together on climate change.
鈥淧art of what we want our children to understand is that climate change is happening everywhere, but it looks different in different parts of the world,鈥 Miller said.
Two of Moore teacher Ben Kolb鈥檚 science classes interacted with students from South Africa for more than an hour via Skype, asking about each other鈥檚 daily lives, the environment in their home countries and their shared project on climate change.
鈥淲e’re doing something called The DOT project and it stands for ‘do one thing,’鈥 said Riley Burton, Moore middle school student. 鈥淪ome of the ideas have been to take shorter showers and don鈥檛 use as much water. Reduce, reuse, and recycle, and use less plastic to help save the animals in the oceans.鈥
Sadie Dickinson, a Marion C. Moore student, was excited when she was able to interact with people from the country where she grew up.
鈥淚t was like a little taste of home, honestly. It’s a way to connect with them in a different way,鈥 said Dickinson.
鈥榃e are partnering with our schools here and in other parts of the world to try to bring the research and educational resources of the university out into the community to work together to address climate change,鈥 said Miller.
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