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Students spread word about global warming
Crone students take part in climate change summit
November 19, 2008
By TIM WALDORF Staff Writer
In Alaska, glaciers are melting.
In Greenland, permafrost is proving to be not-so-permanent.
In Nebraska, growing seasons are, well, growing.
And in Chicago, well, its mid-November, leaves are still on the trees, and the first measurable snow fall has just occurred.
"It all just contributes to proving that global warming does exist," said Crone Middle School eighth grader Jeremy Royko. "So we basically are trying to increase the awareness of this."
Royko and a group of his classmates took their message Saturday to Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry - specifically to a student summit on global climate change that was being held there. They represented the Chicago region in a video conference with students from Alaska, Nebraska and Greenland.
Saturday's summit included more than just the video conference, and Crone students were at the center of it all. They performed skits and presented reports for other Chicago-area students who attended the conference.
"We explained kind of why people don't believe in global warming versus why they do," said Taylor Panczyk. "We talked about what futures we could have depending on what actions we take today, and what we have done, what we will do and what we are doing to help the environment."
But this wasn't the group's first eco-friendly rodeo.
Led by Crone science teachers Sylvia Petersen and Karen Filip, they began last January exploring these issues shortly after former Kennedy Junior High School science teacher Louise Huffman, who has conducted environmental research in Antarctica, visited them and spoke of her experiences. They then began performing demonstrations on climate changes for conferences of local science teachers.
Soon enough they found themselves presenting what they'd learned about the issue in an April global climate change summit with students from Egypt, South Africa, Wales and Portugal.
They found the work so fulfilling that, when they came back to school this fall, they decided to continue it.
"It is a really good experience because not only do we get to share how our climate in Chicago or the area has been changing, but also we get to learn from all of these other places all around the world, and not just the United States," said Shivani Shah.
Students spread word about global warming
Crone students take part in climate change summit
November 19, 2008
By TIM WALDORF Staff Writer
In Alaska, glaciers are melting.
In Greenland, permafrost is proving to be not-so-permanent.
In Nebraska, growing seasons are, well, growing.
And in Chicago, well, its mid-November, leaves are still on the trees, and the first measurable snow fall has just occurred.
"It all just contributes to proving that global warming does exist," said Crone Middle School eighth grader Jeremy Royko. "So we basically are trying to increase the awareness of this."
Royko and a group of his classmates took their message Saturday to Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry - specifically to a student summit on global climate change that was being held there. They represented the Chicago region in a video conference with students from Alaska, Nebraska and Greenland.
Saturday's summit included more than just the video conference, and Crone students were at the center of it all. They performed skits and presented reports for other Chicago-area students who attended the conference.
"We explained kind of why people don't believe in global warming versus why they do," said Taylor Panczyk. "We talked about what futures we could have depending on what actions we take today, and what we have done, what we will do and what we are doing to help the environment."
But this wasn't the group's first eco-friendly rodeo.
Led by Crone science teachers Sylvia Petersen and Karen Filip, they began last January exploring these issues shortly after former Kennedy Junior High School science teacher Louise Huffman, who has conducted environmental research in Antarctica, visited them and spoke of her experiences. They then began performing demonstrations on climate changes for conferences of local science teachers.
Soon enough they found themselves presenting what they'd learned about the issue in an April global climate change summit with students from Egypt, South Africa, Wales and Portugal.
They found the work so fulfilling that, when they came back to school this fall, they decided to continue it.
"It is a really good experience because not only do we get to share how our climate in Chicago or the area has been changing, but also we get to learn from all of these other places all around the world, and not just the United States," said Shivani Shah.