Grade Level:
Lower Elementary, Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School
Subject Areas:
Science, Public Health, Fine Arts, Language Arts
Setting:
Classroom, Local Garden, Field Trip Sites
About the Trunk:
While participating in the Climate Kids activities of art, science and storytelling, students will gain an understanding of how climate change is impacting the food system on a regional level, how climate-smart agricultural practices can help offset the impacts of climate change, and the role we play at the intersection of climate, food, and agriculture.
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Students will:
Understand the importance of the carbon cycle, how we have altered it, and what this means for our changing climate.
Explain the basic tenets of photosynthesis and the role plants play in the carbon cycle.
Understand the regional climate impacts on our food system and what this means for agriculture and aquaculture.
Perform a class experiment to demonstrate the impacts of changes in temperature and precipitation on plants.
Understand the suite of climate-smart agricultural practices that help sequester carbon in the soil and offset the impacts of climate change.
Develop solutions to reduce impacts of climate change in our community and help support a thriving food system.
Create and design community artwork to portray solutions and tell the story.
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