UofL coordinating global education effort to bring kids together on climate change

Alicia Kelso — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:56:53 +0000

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 ��ֱ�� and Human Development, is coordinating the global education effort to bring kids together on climate change.

“Part 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,“ Miller said.

Two of Moore teacher Ben Kolb’s science classes interacted with students from South Africa for more than an hour via Skype, asking about each other’s daily lives, the environment in their home countries and their shared project on climate change.

“We’re doing something called The DOT project and it stands for ‘do one thing,’” said Riley Burton, Moore middle school student. “Some of the ideas have been to take shorter showers and don’t use as much water. Reduce, reuse, and recycle, and use less plastic to help save the animals in the oceans.”

Sadie Dickinson, a Marion C. Moore student, was excited when she was able to interact with people from the country where she grew up.

“It was like a little taste of home, honestly. It’s a way to connect with them in a different way,” said Dickinson.

‘We 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,” said Miller.

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UofL hosts middle schoolers for a Day of Science

Mackenzie Burke — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:20:18 +0000

Louisville middle school students recently enjoyed a day of science. But instead of sitting in a typical classroom, they spent the day on UofL’s campus.

Seventy students from Marion C. Moore Middle School learned about nature from UofL professors. Their first stop was UofL’s Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium to watch, “Dynamic Earth.” Then, they completed various hands-on activities focusing on the environment and climate change. The middle schoolers produced plans to grow food in an urban area, discovered how insects adapt to the environment and built simulated seedlings to see how they migrate.

The visit to UofL’s campus is the first stage of a 5-year international research and educational project. The project’s goal is to focus on students’ knowledge and attitudes toward the environment and climate change. Louisville students will then take what they learn and share it with other middle schoolers across the globe.

Ben Kolb, Moore science teacher, hopes his students use “what they’re learning in the classroom, connecting it here (at UofL) and then even connecting it to the real world.”

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Marion C. Moore Middle School – UofL News

UofL coordinating global education effort to bring kids together on climate change

UofL hosts middle schoolers for a Day of Science