Legacy Rain Gardens

Legacy Rain Gardens

Biology students will apply their Master Rain Gardener skills to assess and maintain the rain gardens on the Ypsilanti Community High School campus. As part of this hands-on environmental stewardship project, students will evaluate soil conditions and determine...
How Kids Can Fight Climate Change

How Kids Can Fight Climate Change

Students will be presenting their ideas to help teach their community about fighting Climate Change including protecting trees, composting, saving monarchs, creating a weather kit and stopping plastic waste. By: Lily Lippens, Jace Cochran, Aidan Anderson, Julian...
Climate Justice and Tree Equity

Climate Justice and Tree Equity

Salina students spent the cardmarking learning about climate change’s impact on local communities. They discovered how vulnerability exacerbates the effects of climate change and recognized the crucial role of tree equity alongside climate justice in supporting...
Campaign to Reduce Air Pollution

Campaign to Reduce Air Pollution

She is going to create a social media campaign and create a collage of her campaign images and slides on a poster or PowerPoint to share with the audience. By: Syair Hines and Kaitlin Shaw, 11th Grade Teacher: Emily Phillips, Renaissance High School, Detroit Type: PDF...
Rouge River Watershed Resilience

Rouge River Watershed Resilience

Engineering design prototype of a solution to increase resiliency to climate change in the Rouge River watershed. By: Lyric Thomas, 11th Grade Teacher: Alexis Anderson, Renaissance High School, Detroit Type: Powerpoint Click on the links above to see other gallery...
Excess Carbon Removal

Excess Carbon Removal

Engineering design prototype of a solution to remove excess carbon from our atmosphere. By: Tyrone Taylor, 11th Grade Teacher: Alexis Anderson, Renaissance High School, Detroit Type: Powerpoint Click on the links above to see other gallery entries with the same...
What’s in Our Water?

What’s in Our Water?

Students will present their findings from testing river and creek water on the campus for toxins, conductivity, and ph to compare/contrast safety. They will also talk about the solutions they propose to make the water safer. By: Erica Robinson, Marina Echegoyen,...
2022: Rain Garden FAQs

2022: Rain Garden FAQs

Students share knowledge about rain gardens. By: Robert Caddell, Kamren James, Damarko Jordan, Muneeb Tahir, 11th Grade Teacher: Paula Sizemore, Ypsilanti Community/ACTech HS, Ypsilanti Subject: Earth Science/Environmental Science Theme: Climate Change Resilience and...

Climate change literacy & preparedness in place-based learning: SEMIS member teachers and students study hands-on civic-science

A big shout out to all the ‘NOAA teachers’, as we say: Mrs. Kerry Williams, Mr. William Albrecht, Ms. Paula Sizemore, Mrs. Andrea Stanczyk, Mrs. Abigail Woodman, and brand new to the initiative is Mr. Dillon Williams. Several teachers in the Coalition are part of a...