November 2018 Civitas is once again hosting an amazing journalist from the Pulitzer Center. We will be guiding Amy Martin to various classrooms in the St. Louis area where she will talk about her work studying climate change in the Arctic. From the Threshold homepage:
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of planet, and that has big consequences for all of us. But satellite images of melting sea ice don’t begin to tell the whole story. Four million people live in the Arctic, and they’ve been dealing with the effects of climate change for decades. We wanted to hear from them in this pivotal moment — when the ground is literally shifting beneath their feet.
For Threshold season two, we went on a circumpolar journey to find out what the Arctic is, how it is changing, and why that matters.
We traveled on four-wheelers and fishing boats, bush planes and dog sleds. We camped out on the Greenland ice sheet with a team of scientists and hung out with Inuit rock stars in Canada. We visited all eight Arctic countries, and we discovered countless stories unfolding in the far north. Climate change is just the tip of the iceberg.
The Pulitzer Center also has a free lesson that teachers are encouraged to use before Amy comes to town. Caring About Climate: Telling the Human Story of Climate Change has students listen to one of Amy Martin’s podcasts and leads the class in a discussion afterwards about their thoughts and feelings on her work.
We will be posting a schedule of class visits soon. If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]!
