News - Kids Care About Climate Change 2021

Interactive mosaic of your drawings!!

I made an interactive mosaic of ALL of the 1,246 entries in the contest using the software ‘Mosiacally’. Click on the ‘+’ and ‘-‘ buttons (bottom right) to zoom in and out, or the ‘play’ button (bottom left) to fly through the drawings.

Photo mosaic by: marjettalp @ Mosaically

News from Teachers:

Our theme this term is Planets; our children are learning names of the eight planets, the role of an Astronaut, the Importance of the Sun and that Earth is home for many living and non-living things. We have added another sub-topic relating to climate change and how it is affecting our planet Earth. It’s amazing to hear our 4 to 5 year old’s speak about protecting their environment. As a school we are showing them simple video’s on climate change, talking to them about growing more plants and how climate change is affecting the weather.
—-Anita Demelo, Little Gryphons Montessori, Singapore
My year 9 Art class are going to Lady Musgrave Island to partake in ReefBlitz, a citizen science project to collect data on the health of the Reef using colour cards, as part of International Year of the Reef. They are going to research a specific coral and construct a representation of it out of ceramics in order to make a representation of the Reef.
—-Dinah Hall, St. Luke’s Anglican School, Australia
Our school have decided to make our Senior Classes final term all about Climate Change due to the inspiring work you are all doing and the Homeward Bound Projects. This week, their drawings from the contest as well as others they’ve done throughout the semester are being presented to the public via ‘Greyton Artwalk’. This is an annual event. Artists throughout the village open their doors to the public to view their works. The entire village essentially becomes one big art gallery.
—-Marli Hoffman, Greyton House, South Africa

Thanks so much for this opportunity – the students have been extremely interested and excited by it. It has led us to researching this topic area in greater detail and the students will be using this research to develop a resource / activity to share with our year 2 students and raise their awareness.
—-Jen Warden, Science Specialist, Pearsall Primary School, Australia
Awesome and extremely powerful artwork and imagery coming from #kidscareaboutclimatechange I’m wondering what are some read alouds that teachers have been using to frontload this global issue?
—-Kimi Waite, Nat Geo Certified Educator & Teacher Leader for Global & Environmental Education (https://twitter.com/KimberlyWaite8), USA

Book presentations to participating schools

April M. presents 'Zobi and the Zoox' to Beaumaris Primary School (Western Australia)
5 year olds from Pioneer Village Primary School (Western Australia) show the drawings that won their school the book 'Zobi and the Zoox'!
Alyson L. presents 'Polar Eyes' to her school principal at Harrisdale Primary School in Western Australia (Australia).
Bea A. presents Zobi and the Zoox to Badgingarra Primary School librarian Mrs Monks.

Student artists from St. Francis Catholic Primary School show the drawings that earned their school the book 'Zobi and the Zoox'.
Olivia of Externat St-Jean Berchmans (Quebec, Canada) presents Zobi and the Zoox to her school principal - and gives a presentation about climate change.