Whether in kindergarten, middle, or high school, climatechange curriculum in New Jersey schools is tailored with students in mind. alecia__reid reports.
Sixth, seventh, and eighth grade eco-ambassadors at Readington Middle School are getting their hands dirty. "We have nutrient-rich water that comes through the tube, which is time set, which is released into plants that would be in these little pockets here. And all that runoff which would, at a normal farm, possibly go into a river and pollute it, all of it goes right back down here to be reused again," seventh grader Pearce Lowden said.
"When kids are able to speak to their passions, they really dig in and are really compassionate about what they do," Readington Middle School Principal Timothy Charleston said. The students have been working hard to live more sustainably. Last spring and fall, they researched the amount of food that went to waste in their school's cafeteria.
"We're looking to do an educational campaign with posters in the hallway. It ties into the art again. We want to have art in the hallways so people are constantly getting it in their head that they need to cut back. They need to reduce," Suggitt said. "It was infected with a disease, and we didn't want it to spread to the Salem oak that we planted," eighth grader Bryan Caballero Aparicio said. "It's super important for us to maintain and protect the Salem oak tree because it does a great job of sequestering the CO2 emissions," said eighth grader Marcos Hernandez.
"Maybe a tree like this would be growing with less water, seeing as how small the rings are. But a tree like this grew with a lot of water and had better weather conditions for survival," sixth grader Keira Wilson said.
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