Middle Schoolers React to Peak Oil
Posted on May 4, 2009 under Emergent News, Renewable Energy, Sustainability,
As you all might know, our Citizens Schools sixth and seventh graders have been learning about sustainability, renewable energy, and also have been building solar cars to race at the Junior Solar Sprint at MIT in a few weeks! In our last class, we focused on sustainability, in which we did a “web of resilience” exercize and then we finished off by discussing Peak Oil. Jared helped the kids out by drawing the infamous Peak Oil “Peak” on the white board in the front of the classroom. The kids took the liberty to erase some things and write in and comment on the diagram:
As you all might know, our Citizens Schools sixth and seventh graders have been learning about sustainability, renewable energy, and also have been building solar cars to race at the Junior Solar Sprint at MIT in a few weeks! In our last class, we focused on sustainability, in which we did a “web of resilience” exercize and then we finished off by discussing Peak Oil. Jared helped the kids out by drawing the infamous Peak Oil “Peak” on the white board in the front of the classroom. The kids took the liberty to erase some things and write in and comment on the diagram:
