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Earth Reporters
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Earth Reporters is a citizen science pilot program that engages urban youth in telling the story of our changing planet from data collected in their local environment. Our partners share our mission of connecting learners wherever they are with their local biodiversity . With new knowledge gained youth become active participants as educators and changemakers in those places and spaces where human impact and the environment merge.
Who is an Earth Reporter?
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Earth Reporters are investigators of science.
Earth Reporters think beyond the biology class textbook and are active researchers, environmental guardians, and data collectors in their local communities. Earth Reporters contribute and share data and observations to a collaborative community-based portal as well as other supporting tools that use satellite imagery in understanding their environment. Community-based data collection empowers communities to contribute to the knowledge of our planet while promoting awareness of current threats at the local level.
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Earth Reporters are scientific communicators.
Earth Reporters communicate science and share their climate change stories.
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Earth Reporters promote educational equity and cultural exchange.
Earth Reporters may be involved in developing bilingual educational resources for global classrooms or provide closed captioning that will make podcasts/videos made in the field accessible to English language learners. Biodiversity resources and materials that are bilingual or multilingual are needed in reaching global classrooms with limited resources.
Be a changemaker
Show empathy.
Be an investigative researcher.
Integrating citizen science with English language acquisition.
Student Reviews:
"For me it was very interesting to combine science with learning English. For me it helped me to learn language as it applied to science . . . for me it helped to learn about the problems that is happening now with many species with extinction. It is an original and different way of learning. “
Be a citizen scientist.
Make a difference.
"Science was like being a detective or investigator. The more I learned the more I wanted to find out.
I remember looking at an insect under a microscope for the first time. . . looking at their face and features.
Would like to spend more time observing
insects under a microscope. . ."
With just English I wouldn’t know or learn about the animals. Now I know how many years and how long ago lived the animals. English and science should be together. . .that would be good.”
-52 year old African refugee from Tanzania
Guatemala partner FLAAR (Foundation for Latin American and Anthropological Research) using bilingual educational resources to teach Guatemala children about native bees.
For more information contact Anne Basham at info@earth-teach.org
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