is an interinstitutional program that creates tools and learning experiences for educators and students to strengthen scientific and leadership skills in order to understand, value, and conserve the environment and the well-being of their communities.
We primarily work with high schools in the southeastern region of Baja California Sur, Mexico.
These schools serve over 1,000 young people from 29 communities and rural areas where climate change, desertification, and the expansion of mega-tourism and residential projects, as well as open-pit mining, put the freshwater supply and the health of their ecosystems at risk.
We are educators, students, communities, and scientists sharing knowledge and collaborating for the common good.
¿HOW DOES IT WORK?
STUDENTS FOR WATER IN THE SOUTHEAST REGION
The positive impact of our program has been clear through a crucial issue for the communities: WATER.
WORKSHOPS
Based on the Water in the Eastern Cape research by BCI and Legacy Group, we developed (with the support of teachers) a curricular program on WATER, that was shared in workshops with 35 educators from Baja California Sur.
CITIZEN SCIENCE
Teachers currently engage their students to conduct surveys and collect data on the availability and quality of water in their homes. Citizen Science Project 2019
EXPEDITIONS
The most motivated students participate in an expedition in which, for 4 days, they explore their aquifers and follow the course of water from the mountains to the sea. Water Roads Expedition Report 2019
PROJECTS
As a result, they develop projects that they share in forums and science fairs, becoming eco-leaders for the younger generations and in their communities.
EDUCATIONAL PLATFORMs
Along with teachers and partner institutions, we created a Water conservation and Plastic curricula which are available now in our Educational Platforms. These sites, which are a continuous work in progress, allow us to exchange educational resources with more teachers and students, thus acting in and impacting their communities.
(Click here to access the Teacher’s platform and Student’s platform).
ACHIEVEMENTS TO DATE
(Last update: summer 2022)
WHAT'S NEXT?
Share our curricular programs with the entire local educational community and continue to improve our online platform.
Strengthen the Environmental Educators network in Baja California Sur as well as our Young Agents of Change network (Red de Adolescentes Agentes de Cambio | RAAC).
Develop new curricular materials on topics such as biodiversity and climate change.
Continue building educational platforms by publishing content on our websites and opening spaces where teachers and students can collaborate.
Following the pandemic, as soon as we are able, we´ll go back to expeditions, camps, and fieldwork with local students and teachers.
“Education to Action is not just about a group of students and their teachers. These are educators who are highly committed to the more than 1,000 young people who will graduate in the coming 3 years to become decision-makers in this region, responsible for its sustainable development and prepared for climate change. It is about critical thinking, fighting for the common good and taking an active role in the management of their communities and the conservation of their natural resources. It is about fresh water, biodiversity, climate change, and the sustainability of the Southeast Region.”
Deb Zeyen
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BCI
THE BEGINING OF ETA
Our program began as an alliance between various educational organizations during the 2017 National ExpoScience. Since then we have partnered with Monterey Bay Aquarium to develop the program and to expand it in the Eastern Region of BCS. Teachers and principals attended in-depth training sessions at the Aquarium. In Mexico we partnered with SEP (the Public Education Secretariat), research centers and other educational organizations, to develop curricular programs, expeditions and workshops for students and high school teachers .
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