A Project for the Planet – Service Learning in your community
22 mins
Students from four different schools in three different locations learn about local environmental issues and commit to making a difference in their community… and for their planet.
Alaskan Bears in the wild are the focus of wildlife filmmaker, Erin Ranney! Listen to her share her passion for the bears and the Alaskan wilderness in “In the wild… with Bears” from Schoolyard Films.
So, what are ways forward out of this plastic mess that we’ve created? In California schools, students perform weekly trash audits, and learn how much waste they produce and what to do with it all.
Join a group of pro-active high school students as they learn how to get their concerns about global plastics and their voices heard by policy makers and company CEOs.
Join High School student-explorers, Liam and Olivia, as they learn from Marine Biologist, Chelsea Bennice, about the amazing superpowers of her research subjects: the Octopus!
For Deer Life follows a dedicated group of volunteers in Austria who use thermal drones to locate and rescue newborn roe deer fawns hidden in meadows before the fields are mowed. Their remarkable efforts show how technology, compassion, and cooperation with farmers can help wildlife and agriculture coexist.
Chameleon Corridors is a captivating nature film from Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains that is told through the eyes of a chameleon, weaving together community-led forest reforestation and deep conservation ethos as he works with kids to protect and restore his habitat.
Proximity to water, especially the sea, is associated with many positive measures of physical and mental wellbeing, from higher levels of Vitamin D to better social relations. Many urban children are unaware of how it feels to be in nature and its calming and rejuvenating effects because they have never been.