New Jersey requires climate change education. A year in, here's how it's going

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In 2020, New Jersey became the first state in the country to require climate change education across grade levels and in most subjects. The standards were rolled out this past year.

Veteran art teacher Carolyn McGrath incorporates climate change into her art classes at Hopewell Valley Central High School in Pennington, N.J. by encouraging her students to think of art as a tool.Veteran art teacher Carolyn McGrath incorporates climate change into her art classes at Hopewell Valley Central High School in Pennington, N.J. by encouraging her students to think of art as a tool.Evelyn Lansing, a senior at Hopewell Valley Central High School in Pennington, N.J.

"A lot of those things that we are used to seeing aren't going to be able to be grown here with the continuing climate change," said Lansing, who comes from a family that grows their own food. Students in the class, like freshman Devin Brown, discovered that climate change threatens the state's biodiversity. Brown grew up catching and releasing crayfish in New Jersey streams. She learned through her research that climate change is endangering their habitat, so she sculpted a crayfish onto her clay tile.

 

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