Project title: Will our school be a desert 50 years from now?

Team: 5éB Les Carolines

Les Carolines   Picassent   Spain   25 Student’s age: 10-11 years old

Will our school be a desert 50 years from now?

First we decided which climate problem we wanted to learn about, we chose desertification. Then our assigned expert gave us some feedback to lead our research.

We organized ourselves in groups and started our investigation. This were our main points:
Desertificatin causes
Desertification consequences: line coast
Desertificatin consequences: biodiversity
What can we do

We took different actions to make a difference, we share our research with the school community and families and we made some posters on recycled paper to make people aware of the importance of taking care of our planet earth.

Desertification is the process by which vegetation in drylands i.e. arid and semi-arid lands, such as grasslands or shrublands, decreases and eventually disappears. The concept does not refer to the physical expansion of existing deserts, but to the various processes that threaten to turn currently non-desert ecosystems into deserts.

Human activities, including deforestation and the overexploitation of aquifers, accelerate desertification. The effects of climate change, which is also driven by humans, and the destruction it causes in the form of extreme weather phenomena such as droughts, hurricanes, fires, etc. must be added to this.

According to the UN, more than 24 billion tonnes of fertile soil disappear every year. In fact, today two-thirds of the Earth is undergoing a process of desertification and, if no action is taken, 1.5 million km2 of agricultural land, an area equivalent to the entire arable land of India, which is essential for maintaining biodiversity and feeding the population, will be lost by 2050.

PLANTING A TREE: Our first action was to plant trees near our school to celebrate ‘tree day’.
CLEANING A GREEN AREA: collect all the garbage we found in a forest area. We were on a rock climbing school activity, in the outdoors. So we took the chance to leave a cleaner forest. We even used reused biodegradable bags as gloves, we did no want to leave a plastic trace to clean a forest area!
MAKE RECYCLED PAPER: With our class paper waste, we made our own recycled paper and used it to make posters to raise awareness of the climate emergency with some green advices.
SCHOOL VEGGIE GARDEN: We are working on our own veggie garden!
GREEN SPRING CAMP: This year we choose a campsite that was focus on nature knowledge and climate change awareness raising.

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