Helping Children to Understand "CLIMATE CHANGE"

The Rain watchers Club Officers  with the adviser, Mrs.Jacqueline B. Bete 

Children viewing the film "Climate Change"

     Climate change. This is the abnormal condition of the weather nowadays and the world is facing it seriously, and it is hard for the children to understand what is real meaning of CLIMATE CHANGE . So the Rainwatchers Club memebers and officers decided to teach the children what are the causes  and ill effects if we didn’t care and save mother earth.

     First thing we did, we visited Samuag Elementary School , talk with the adviser of Grade IV-Del Pilar..Mrs. Josevyl Borres and ask permission for us to have lecture with her students.  Then .......we ask the children  if they do know about climate change. They said in chorus, ”NOOOO!!! WHAT IS THAT?”. Seriously, we pity them. They don’t even know the very serious problem that is happening now, and that we are having  global warming or the earth is having Global fever.Thus, we conducted a lecture. As we go over with the topic, they had so many questions that came into their mind, like, “So, if people knew before that climate change happens because of burning garbage, maybe we are not suffering from it, right?” or “How can people turn back the original beauty of mother earth?”. It is overwhelming that they asked that kind of question, which means that they care.

     Second thing we did is give them an activity related to our topic and that is “EFFECTS AND CAUSES OF CLIMATE CHANGE”. We let them write it in a manila paper.Surprisingly the children has a great output, they have answered the activity correctly. They already know the situation of our environment today and it is so awesome that they learn it in a short time. A FILM VIEWING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE followed. And the children were all dismayed on the impact of forest destruction to the environment. At the end of our activity ,they promised to help protect mother earth .

    After all we are proud to say that the children that we taught has now a stored knowledge about the climate change and we are so happy that they listen very attentively. We are also pleased of their eagerness to learn about the certain topic we had. Some also showed their ability in constructing ideas, if you know what we mean.

    We hope that they will always remember the lesson that they have learned from us even though we are just  student like them and hoping that they will also pursue our goal and that is to protect MOTHER EARTH.
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