Program adds youth voice to climate negotiations

Posted: 10/5/2009 7:41:43 PM

Follow along with polar explorer Will Steger as he and a group of young people embark on Expedition Copenhagen, a mission to bring the youth voice to the international climate negotiations in December. First give your students the basic knowledge they need to follow the news coverage of the climate negotiations and the skills they need to make their opinions heard. Then send your students’ statements to the youth delegates headed to Copenhagen and follow the Youth Delegation’s multimedia blogs. Download Citizen Climate, free standards-linked high school lesson plans from the Will Steger Foundation. These lesson plans build on the WSF’s original six lesson plans on the basics of global warming. The new lessons cover the carbon cycle, target levels for atmospheric levels of greenhouse gasses, cap and trade, carbon tax, new technologies, concerns of developed and developing countries, and how to formulate position statements. Learn more: www.willstegerfoundation.org.
 
Midwest educators: Invite a member of the Will Steger Foundation’s expedition team to your school this fall! Expedition members (a Midwest youth delegate) will provide educators with information on the basics of climate change, background information on Expedition Copenhagen, and the Will Steger Foundation’s new Citizen Climate curriculum, a set of interdisciplinary standards-based lessons on global climate solutions. If you are interested in having an Expedition team member visit your school, please contact info@willstegerfoundation.org.