The Middle School students were already considering the impact of junk food on their bodies and it was straightforward to make the next step to the considering the environment. After watching The 11th Hour the students shared their thoughts about their own environment as a microcosm of the larger environment. They were willing to be the group that would take responsibility for ensuring the Dili International School carried out a program of environmental responsibility.
During their second session the class looked at making a catchy slogan, they discussed the effective 'marketing' of green values and were left with the task of making up posters, poems and banners that would support the message that their school yard was 'their' planet.
They met all the challenges with enthusiasm and took charge of arranging receptacles that could be used to separate waste and and organising recycled paper and craft days to coincide with festivals that need greeting cards and gifts.
The Middle School took a very practical and solution oriented approach that in part was inspired by the watching of the film and the resulting need, having seen, to DO something.
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