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Teacher Planning Discussion >
Greetings to all September 2019 ISCFC Teachers
Welcome to all participating teachers! This is the page where we would like to hear about your students and your school. What is your community like? What makes it unique? Tell the other teachers about why you are having your students participate in the ISCFC. Describe you school and where you are located. If someone was to visit your community what should we see? How is your class and your school investigating climate change?
For example, I live on the Central Coast of California in the USA. It is a beautiful, rugged coastline. It is a wonderful place to live! I taught biology at Seaside High School, a very ethnically diverse student body for 39 years, and I have been working with projects at Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station for almost 30 years. I have been collaborating with the spectacular Professor David Epel since 1990 and the amazing Dr. Jason Hodin since 2005. We are excited to share the International Student Carbon Footprint Challenge with you and your students. We hope that it will empower them to commit to solving the problems humans have created with climate change. What are they interested in doing to combat climate change?
I live in Jacksonville Florida, U.S., and teach at St. Johns River State College in Orange Park, Florida. We are happy to be participating, having just dodged Hurricane Dorian and losing four days of school. My students are in environmental science and will be doing their carbon footprint calculation next week (Sept. 17 and Sept. 19).