My fourth grade students made these four commercials to promote recycling. Follow superhero "Recycling Boy" as he cleans up the universe! You can help him by passing this video on and doing your best to recycle. Thanks!
Fourth and fifth graders explain why they started a recycling program at The Park School in Brookline, MA. These interviews were filmed for The Weather Channel's "Climate Code" show and some were shown to a national audience!
Van Jones lays the case for creating a Green Job Corps to help transition our fossil fuel economy to a green economy. At the same time, this Green Job Corp connects the "jobs that most need to be done with the people who most need jobs" and therefore fights poverty. See: http://www.massclima teaction.net/chapter s/boston for more on BCAN.
The "One Earth, One Climate" rally calling for Congress to step it up and cut carbon dioxide emissions 80% by 2050 took place on April 14, 2007 and was a smashing hit! This video contains highlights from the 3 hour rally. Props to David Fish for filming. Enjoy!
Park School Kindergarten teacher Kat Callard teaches her class and some fourth graders how to compost! See the great lesson and learn how to compost yourself!
When NBC's TODAY SHOW brought their BIG cameras to my classroom to share our project with MILLIONS, my kids filmed their own footage with my handycam! Here's a behind the scenes look at a special day that we'll remember forever!
If your school would like to join the Catalog Canceling Challenge, Google: "Ted Wells Catablog" for details.
Bill McKibben spoke in Boston 6/8/08 to explain why we need to urge our leaders to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere to a safe level ... to 350 parts per million. Watch vid and visit 350.org
Park School fouth graders and fifth graders explain why they organize and run a recycling program. This was filmed for The Weather Channel's "The Climate Code" television show. Portions were shown 11/10/06.
My grade four students were featured on The Climate Code with Heidi Cullen in November, 2006. Here is a ten minutes shortened version of the show. The kids are the last three minutes of the video!
Here's a short 83 second promo of our catalog canceling project. Send it to all the teachers you know who want to empower children to make a difference and help the environment at the same time! Thanks, Ted