Grades 9-12 Archives - Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation

Grades 9-12

What’s the Big Idea?

Students will be able to identify and apply the Big Ideas of Sustainability in their place to help develop a sustainable mindset.

Food Deserts

Students will be able to identify what a food desert is and where they exist in their place by using google maps and other research tools.

The ‘Do Nothing’ Machine

Students will use motor skills and creative thinking to construct their
own “do nothing” machine. This activity encourages little engineers
to express themselves, while parents help to draw connections and
awareness to stewardship, and repurposing our waste.

Hydroponics and Sustainable Farming with Moonflower Farms

Our current food systems are vastly inefficient with food waste, rampant pesticide use, transport emissions, and agriculture runoff. Many communities live in food deserts with inadequate fresh produce, translating to inequitable health outcomes. Moonflower Farms is partnering with CELF to address these real world problems by using space age technology, hydroponics and sustainable city farming …

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