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Josiah Withrow and his classmates in the Maryland School for the Deaf’s Environmental Science class are passionate about the environment.
The students worry about melting icecaps, the decreasing number of trees and increasing number of pollution-related diseases. They believe passionately that other people should care what could happen to Earth in five to 10 years.
But instead of just worrying about all these things inside their own classroom, they’ve decided to reach out and spread the word to the whole Frederick community. Through a class project, Withrow and a handful of other freshmen at the Maryland School for the Deaf have organized a presentation on the effects of global warming, planned for Friday.
‘‘We are hoping to educate people to take better care of our environment,” Josiah said through an American Sign Language interpreter. ‘‘We hope people will be empowered enough to lobby in Congress and send our grievances to President Bush.”
The culmination of the students’ project will be a lecture and a question-and-answer session with Bradley Porsche, an educator from Houston, Texas, who travels the country to talk about climate change through Al Gore’s Climate Project.
The Climate Project is a nonprofit group based in Nashville, Tenn., aiming to increase public awareness about global warming. It includes more than 1,000 volunteers trained by Al Gore to present slideshows on the issues from Gore’s Academy Award-winning film ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth.” Since the group has been created, Porsche and other members have delivered more than 10,000 presentations across the country.
Porsche’s presentation at the Maryland School for the Deaf is open to any member of the Frederick community. Proceeds from the event will be contributed to the Nature Conservancy – an organization, which works to protect 119 million acres of wildlife habitat across the globe.
The idea for the event came from Dina Raevsky, the environmental science class teacher. When Raevsky met Porsche – the only deaf educator in the Climate Project – she thought she could incorporate the group’s work into her class.
Raevsky’s class is project-centered and encourages students to research an issue and then present the findings to the public. Students, for instance, researched what foods are dangerous for ducks and squirrels and then used fliers and posters to communicate that information to visitors at Baker Park.
As they work on class projects, students earn grades and community service hours, Raevsky said. As they prepared for Porsche’s presentation, students designed a flier for the event, printed it and distributed more than 800 copies in the area. All students practiced public speaking and one prepared a presentation.
‘‘This event is a wonderful opportunity for them not to just learn how to write, but also to design projects, communicate with people ... build self esteem,” Raevsky said.
Student Leighason Liddle she said the environmental science class has taught her to think about issues related to pollution, wildlife conservation and global warming.
‘‘We cherish our environment,” she said through an interpreter. ‘‘We came to this class not really knowing much about environmental issues.”
Josiah Withrow and his classmates in the Maryland School for the Deaf’s Environmental Science class are passionate about the environment.
The students worry about melting icecaps, the decreasing number of trees and increasing number of pollution-related diseases. They believe passionately that other people should care what could happen to Earth in five to 10 years.
But instead of just worrying about all these things inside their own classroom, they’ve decided to reach out and spread the word to the whole Frederick community. Through a class project, Withrow and a handful of other freshmen at the Maryland School for the Deaf have organized a presentation on the effects of global warming, planned for Friday.
‘‘We are hoping to educate people to take better care of our environment,” Josiah said through an American Sign Language interpreter. ‘‘We hope people will be empowered enough to lobby in Congress and send our grievances to President Bush.”
The culmination of the students’ project will be a lecture and a question-and-answer session with Bradley Porsche, an educator from Houston, Texas, who travels the country to talk about climate change through Al Gore’s Climate Project.
The Climate Project is a nonprofit group based in Nashville, Tenn., aiming to increase public awareness about global warming. It includes more than 1,000 volunteers trained by Al Gore to present slideshows on the issues from Gore’s Academy Award-winning film ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth.” Since the group has been created, Porsche and other members have delivered more than 10,000 presentations across the country.
Porsche’s presentation at the Maryland School for the Deaf is open to any member of the Frederick community. Proceeds from the event will be contributed to the Nature Conservancy – an organization, which works to protect 119 million acres of wildlife habitat across the globe.
The idea for the event came from Dina Raevsky, the environmental science class teacher. When Raevsky met Porsche – the only deaf educator in the Climate Project – she thought she could incorporate the group’s work into her class.
Raevsky’s class is project-centered and encourages students to research an issue and then present the findings to the public. Students, for instance, researched what foods are dangerous for ducks and squirrels and then used fliers and posters to communicate that information to visitors at Baker Park.
As they work on class projects, students earn grades and community service hours, Raevsky said. As they prepared for Porsche’s presentation, students designed a flier for the event, printed it and distributed more than 800 copies in the area. All students practiced public speaking and one prepared a presentation.
‘‘This event is a wonderful opportunity for them not to just learn how to write, but also to design projects, communicate with people ... build self esteem,” Raevsky said.
Student Leighason Liddle she said the environmental science class has taught her to think about issues related to pollution, wildlife conservation and global warming.
‘‘We cherish our environment,” she said through an interpreter. ‘‘We came to this class not really knowing much about environmental issues.”