From Laura Tyler, Chair
The science and education committee continues to meet monthly as a group. In addition, we are expanding our meeting to meet
throughout the month to work on our section of the website. We have decided to create four additional pages that we will develop
over time. If you pull down the Science and Education tab you will see these four sections; Purpose and Goals, Curriculum Resources,
Environmental Justice and Carbon Footprint and Solutions.
Purpose and Goals
Earth Creative’s Science & Education focus develops content into artistic and science-based educational resources for formal and
informal education for students of all ages. It develops a network of participating schools and teachers and organize future
in-person and virtual/remote school visits by artists and scientists.
The Curriculum Resources section contains lesson plan ideas that formal and
informal educators can use with their students. We have a new Initiative called
EYE (Earth Youth Expressionists.) These will be a series of activities that educators can use with their students
to get them engaged in climate change through both Science and the arts. This will be a continually growing and changing endeavor.
Our goal is to make the lessons with a wide range that could be tailored to a variety of age groups. Educators can take these lesson
plans and tailor them to the work for their students. These will be activities that investigate the artist on our site, as well
offering suggestions in poetry writing activities. We will encourage social emotional learning strategies when students are facing
difficult topics like climate change, habitat destruction, and social injustices. These emotions are harnessed to encourage students
to express themselves through creative outlets and to get out more in nature.
Environmental Justice is at the heart of the current climate crisis.
Investigating local phenomena helps youth localize their climate research. When students center communities most affected by climate
impact (human and other than human), they learn to engage in responsible research about mutual species reliance and environmental
responsibility. Investigating social and environmental injustice cases can help youth broaden their understanding about interspecies
reliance and environmental responsibility. We hope these resources inspire students to gather and analyze data to create student-led
climate action.
Have you ever wondered what your carbon footprint might be and how you can calculate it? Jump on to our
carbon footprint and Solutions tab and we can help you find out your impact on climate change. Your carbon
footprint is the amount of greenhouse gas emission you release into the atmosphere in a year. The United States has one of the
highest carbon footprint per person at 16 tons per year.
Once you know your impact, we will offer some simple and some not so simple solutions to help make less of a footprint.
If you are interested in helping us with this endeavor please contact us at info@earthcreative.org
Thank you!
Laura
