Dear EcoRise Supporters,
When people think of early childhood classrooms, they often picture cute crafts or alphabet drills. And while we have plenty of that going on, EcoRise has inspired me to bring something else to the table. When I started using the sustainability curriculum with my young students they lit up! They were shocked by the problems in the world around them and they became passionately determined to make a difference.
These four- and five-year-olds were empowered by the EcoRise lessons to come up with answers and be changemakers. My students did an energy audit of the school, seeing which classrooms were leaving lights on when they weren’t in the room, and came up with the “Lights off!” campaign to save electricity at school. They designed posters, made presentations, and received EcoRise funding to turn student designs into stickers to remind everyone to turn off the lights. Students placed them with pride under all the light switches around the school. There is nothing better than watching young children problem solve as they work together to make the world a better place. EcoRise makes that possible.