Friend and colleague, Emily Curley, is the Sustainability Coordinator at American University. American U has made an upfront commitment to significantly lessen their carbon footprint on campus and to be a positive example for the neighboring DC community and beyond. Ms Curley has been tasked with "green up" 25 existing campus buildings so they may achieve a LEED designation. The hope here at Guerilla Educators is that neighborhood youth can participate in that process. Some of the ways that can be accomplished, according to Emily, are:
Here are some ideas:
We did a big delamping project in the library this semester and I suspect our electrician might be game to remove more lamps from overlit areas. We already had a student do a light-level study in the res halls, but Tech Prep kids could potentially...
take light level readings in classroom buildings (hands on!) and then suggest how many lamps to remove (critical thinking!), and...
calculate savings for us (math!). The data gathering might only take a day and they could...
make a PowerPoint (technology!) or something and present (language arts!) to our Facilities staff.
A sustainability tour of campus to see our green roofs, solar panels (probably can't take kids to the actual roof but there are some viewing areas), community garden, etc. They spend the next few lessons...
researching and proposing technologies that would be good for the Tech Prep building and why.
One LEED credit is measuring the area of native/adaptive species. If we could pre-identify some areas with those plantings, students could help measure and record the areas using either just tape measure or fancy surveying wheel and research why native species are important.
Work a day in the community garden here on campus then...
send students to Tech Prep to help build a small garden there (as I remember they have a good amount of space).
Learn about local, organic food and gardening.
Help us do a waste audit. This is where you literally sort through the trash to understand the make up of the waste stream thrown away over the course of 24 hours in one building. Our students tend to like this and it's eye opening to see what could have been recycled or composted but instead ends up in the trash. Based on the data...
students could make charts and graphs about the % recycled vs. landfilled and the % that could have been recycled or composted. Easy to set up and would take a day to do.
Last summer, a group of high school students shot a video of the sustainability efforts at American U. Take a look...
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