After School with Livable Streets Education
This spring, Livable Streets Education worked with teacher Tim Devaney at De La Salle Academy in Manhattan to bring real world issues into the classroom and the classroom out into the real world. This afterschool program allowed students to explore, observe and interact with the streets and public space around their school, and provided first hand lessons in science, sustainability, civics and language arts. Get in touch to bring Livable Streets Education to your school, public event or other great venue for livable streets learning.
This is a great way for kids to learn about their city outside of the classroom. It would be great if this lesson could be spread to all of NYC's public schools. I suggest takign this lesson to my former h.s., the High School for Environmental Studies in mid-town.
Nice video. Too bad such solutions wouldn't work in suburban NW Harris County (outside of Houston, TX) where it's all roads, and no bike lanes, sidewalks, or public transit. Just drive and drive and litter.
Loved your films with the NYC kids at La Salle. Very exciting projects. Assume you work with Safe Routes to Schools, too. You should see if you can get some funding from their grants.