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WE NEED ECO-HEROES TO HELP SAVE THE PLANET!
Are Your Students Up for the Challenge? |
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Now through March 15, 2009
, middle school students can “go green” and team up for the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge , the first and only national K-12 sustainability education initiative aligned to education standards.
Prizes for students and teachers include Regional and National Recognition, Cash and an Appearance on Discovery’s Planet Green Television Network. |
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The Challenge is entirely web-based and provides a robust collection of resources for students and teachers from interactive labs to lesson plans , custom developed by the same curriculum team that brings you our award-winning services Discovery Education streaming and Discovery Education Science. Come check it out at wecanchange.com and you can even take a quiz to measure your own environmental IQ!
The competition is open to all U.S. middle school students between grades 6-8. Teams will be made up of two to three students and a teacher or adult advisor (i.e. parent, Girl/Boy Scout leader etc.). The initiative will expand to elementary schools in 2009 and to high schools in 2010.
Teams will be judged by a panel of environmental experts and science educators. Teams will be judged on their ability to create a positive, measurable solution to a local environmental problem or issue using scientific methodology and how well they explain how the solution can be replicated by other communities.
Get started today! |
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Heather-
I am without a ride to the DEN event in Pa next Sunday.
Do you know who is attending – maybe we can carpool?
I’m only going for the day.
Thanks
Barbara (barbara.desantis@sayrevillek12.net)