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Climate Quest is a national educational network of programs that bring together high school students, college students and college instructors to comprehensively study the climate crisis. Additionally, each Climate Quest program will document and share local impacts and solutions using video reporting that can spur action in local communities.
Watch videos from the Sonoma State summer 2007 program here!
Participating universities in 2007:
(Applications and more information are availabe through the following links)
- Sonoma State University - July 9-20, 2007 - a partnership between the Climate Protection Campaign's Cool Schools program and Sonoma State University's School of Extended Education
- Western Washington University - July 15-22, 2007
- American University - June 18-29, 2007 - the program is titled Environmental Communication
- Download the press release for Climate Quest summer 2007.
Key Elements Connecting the Schools:
- Global warming curriculum (science, policy, technology) taught by a college instructor on a college campus to high school students entering their junior and senior years.
- Direct teaching involvement by college student mentors already actively involved in the burgeoning campus climate movement. Their role is to lead the ‘solutions’ part of the curriculum, sharing their work on campuses and playing an active role in the high school student’s field projects in their local communities.
- Field reporting through video, the voice connecting American youth.
- A national Internet site that creates a virtual youth center for comparing summer projects across America. On the site the videos of projects nationwide can be viewed and discussed.
- While these programs are tuition-based, Climate Quest will provide financial and professional assistance where required for scholarships, video equipment and financial support for institutions who can document need.
Key Program Attributes:
- Interaction between college and high school students moves the instruction beyond a conventional science based curriculum on climate to a solution based approach to the issue. Community activism is encouraged, lessening the sense of powerlessness to make a difference.
- Video and high-end multimedia enliven the discussion of climate change, a subject whose complexity and seriousness often presents teaching challenges.
- Internet connectivity capitalizes on communication lingua franca of today’s youth.
