This fall, The Redford Center is launching REDFORD CENTER STORIES, a program designed to build youth environmental leadership through interactive learning and collaborative storytelling.
We need your help to spread the word to middle school teachers with iPad-equipped classrooms during the fall 2019 semester so they have ample time to integrate the contest curriculum and student activity(team-based video production) into their fall or early spring lesson plans.
How can you help?
IF YOU ARE A TEACHER who leads classes includingEarth Science, Environmental Science, Ecology, Economics or any other courses that touch on environmental themes and topics, we’ve been looking for you! Register your class to participate, invite your colleagues to join, and share the information with your teachers associations and councils. Shareable images below, too.
IF YOU KNOW TEACHERS whose middle school students would be excited to make videos about environmental solutions, please share the contest information with them! See below for a customizable email template and shareable images to dress up your outreach.
IF YOU WORK WITH AN ORGANIZATION OR BUSINESS with an environmental mission or sustainability commitments of any kind, here a few ways you can help:
“It’s time to hand the reins to our youth and encourage them to become the designers of their future. Young people have the optimism, energy, and fresh perspective we need to meet our environmental challenges head-on. We must honor their efforts and support them as leaders.”
— Robert Redford, co-founder of The Redford Center
Program Highlights
For the pilot year of this program, we are inviting 6th, 7th and 8th grade teachers with iPad-equipped classrooms to sign their classes up to participate.
Teams of 3-4 students will collaboratively create 30-90 second video—with Apple’s free Clips software—based on this year’s contest theme: reimagining materials use, production and waste.(see below)
The free Contest Curriculum, which satisfies Next Generation Science Standards, is designed as a supplement to scheduled learning in Earth Science, Environmental Science, Ecology, Economics or other established courses that touch upon environmental topics and issues.
All contest prizes are courtesy of 4Ocean, an environmental enterprise committed to ending the ocean plastic crisis; and Donors Choose Gift Cards will be given teachers with prize-winning teams.
Deadline for teachers to submit their student teams’ videos is 5:00 p.m. on March 9, 2020. Winners will be announced on Earth Day, April 22, 2020.
Contest Theme: Reimagining Materials Production, Use and Waste
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How can you help?
Program Highlights
Contest Theme: Reimagining Materials Production, Use and Waste