High School Students in Vermont Experience World Climate

By Stephanie McCauley
April 8, 2011

Climate Interactive’s Phil Rice recently ran our World Climate exercise for science and social studies students at St. Johnsbury Academy in Vermont. Some of his reflections are below:

Students were eager to engage and asked good questions.

The students wouldn’t get aggressive about % reduction- best they’d offer was 2%. The Developed world was resistant to working with the other groups.

During the exercise and in the debrief, they did ask a lot of good questions and stayed engaged in the role play pretty well. An interesting question in the debrief was basically in the form of, “OK, but do you have a way we could simulate the effects of the changes we could make? Because that is what we need to know now.”

I got a lot out of working with these engaged young adults. They have a lot of energy and they are into learning.

Videos of the exercise at Dartmouth and elsewhere may be found on the Climate Interactive website.