Every Kid in a Park

Learn about the 2018 Every Kid in a Park program at Sequoia National Park and the 2016 program at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and Cape Cod National Seashore. You can also view these videos on a YouTube playlist.

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  "This was my first time camping..."

  What happens when high school students from California's San Joaquin Valley camp for their first time in Sequoia National Park in April 2018?

  Duration:

  4 minutes, 8 seconds

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  Every Kid in a Park: Climate Change Boot Camp

  A video overview of the novel 2016 Every Kid in a Park: Climate Change Boot Camp. This video showcases a new approach to teaching climate change impacts and responses to grade school and high school students.

  Duration:

  3 minutes, 4 seconds

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  Every Kid in a Park: Cape Cod

  In the spring of 2016, the Climate Change Response Program partnered with No Barriers Youth to provide the inaugural Every Kid in a Park: Climate Change Bootcamp. Held at Cape Cod National Seashore, this novel program brought 23 high school students from Lexington, MA to the seashore for three days and two nights to learn about the impacts climate change is causing and the steps the NPS is taking to respond. On the third day, the high school students invited a local 4th grade class to be taught by their newly minted high school student teachers. Follow along for this wonderful new program, and see some of the new and novel ways we communicate climate change with our nation’s students.

  Duration:

  5 minutes, 3 seconds

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  Every Kid in a Park: Indiana Dunes

  In the spring of 2016, the Climate Change Response Program partnered with No Barriers Youth to provide the inaugural Every Kid in a Park: Climate Change Bootcamp. Held at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, this novel program brought 17 high school students from Chicago to the lakeshore for three days and two nights to learn about the impacts climate change is causing and the steps the NPS is taking to respond. On the third day, the high school students invited a local 4th grade class to be taught by their newly minted high school student teachers. Follow along for this wonderful new program, and see some of the new and novel ways we communicate climate change with our nation’s students.

  Duration:

  5 minutes, 47 seconds

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  Every Kid in a Park: Student Diary - Brian

  The Every Kid in a Park: Climate Change Bootcamp is a novel approach to climate change communication developed by the Climate Change Response Program in partnership with No Barriers Youth. Join us as we see the experience of this program through the eyes of one of the students who participated in this new and dynamic program. At Cape Cod, local high school senior, Brian, takes us through his experiences in the program, and gives us a student’s eye view of empowering the next generation to act on and understand the issues of climate change.

  Duration:

  5 minutes, 9 seconds

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  Every Kid in a Park: Student Diary - Abigail

  The Every Kid in a Park: Climate Change Bootcamp is a novel approach to climate change communication developed by the Climate Change Response Program in partnership with No Barriers Youth. Join us as we see the experience of this program through the eyes of one of the students who participated in this new and dynamic program. At Indiana Dunes, local high school senior, Abigail, takes us through her experiences in the program, and gives us a student’s eye view of empowering the next generation to act on and understand the issues of climate change.

  Duration:

  5 minutes, 14 seconds