Teachers agree that climate change should be taught in schools, but whether your child is getting climate education in Mass. can depend on the availability of volunteers and extra budget:
Change is Simple program director Skye Fournier with a Paul Revere Elementary student inside the nonprofit's mobile learning lab. that climate change should be taught in schools, with some advocates saying it should start in lower grades. But in Massachusetts, climate change topics are not part of the state's elementary learning standards, leaving schools on their own to find extra resources.
Then the students begin experimenting with building sound barriers to protect the threatened species, layering different materials and testing how well their walls block noise using decibel meters. “It's really a unique time period to educate them about environmental science and climate change so that this becomes something that they value and are committed to over a lifetime,” says Sara Ewell, a Northeastern University professor and a third-party researcher studying the effectiveness of the nonprofit’s work in elementary grades.
“We just took a really different approach from the start, which was all about hope and empowerment with students,” said Belmonte.
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