Nyack Hospital hosted a reception on September 12 for Ms. Christie-Blick’s science students (for the 2016-17 school year), whose climate change artwork is currently on display at the hospital. (Click here to view Montefiore Nyack’s Facebook post for photos.)
The project was part of students’ study of how the Earth’s biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere impact each other. They learned that people make both positive and negative contributions to the environment and realized that the more knowledgeable people are about how they affect the other natural systems, the more they can work toward improving their natural surroundings. Their climate change research included a school visit by NASA/GISS and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory paleoecologist Dr. Peteet and hands-on work with models, and investigating cause-and-effect relationships in nature. (Check out their website: KidsAgainstClimateChange.com)
“My science students (my homeroom and Ms. Early’s fifth-graders) created beautiful posters with a compelling message about climate change. My homeroom students then wrote persuasive letters to the institutions of their choice asking if they’d be interested in displaying the posters,” Ms. Christie-Blick explains. “We received an overwhelming response. The posters are now ‘on tour’ and booked well into 2018.”
Nyack Hospital President and CEO Dr. Mark Geller expressed his appreciation in an email to Ms. Christie-Blick, “You have a great group of students, engaged and motivated. I am confident that if our generation is unable to succeed in combating issues that contribute to global climate change, their generation certainly will!”
Here’s where you can view students’ work:
- Nyack Hospital: Through September 24
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Open House: October 7
- Orangetown Town Hall: October 10–November 9
- Palisades Free Library: November 9–December 8
- Old Tappan Library: December 8–January 9, 2018
- Orangeburg Library: January 9–February 9, 2018
- South Orangetown Middle School: February 13–March 20, 2018