Students from Forbes Public School will join forces with more than 10,000 kids across all states and territories in Australia as part of 2015 Kids Teaching Kids Week to ‘fight the good fight’ for the environment.
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In 2015, Kids Teaching Kids will have reached over 100,000 kids, inspiring them to take action and teach each other about environmental issues like climate change, conservation, energy, water and population growth.
This year, Forbes Public School has chosen the topic ‘Paddock to Plate’ to help students understand the importance of shopping locally and supporting our farmers and local businesses.
In particular, they will focus on local businesses in their presentation such as the Central West Livestock Exchange and Bernardi’s IGA.
“The kids get to research a topic of interest and get to explain how it’s important to our local area and industries,” Forbes Public School’s Kids Teaching Kids coordinator Meg Groat said.
“We were thinking about what we’ve got in Forbes that’s specific to Forbes, so we’re focussing on the Central West Livestock Exchange.
“They’ll be talking about why it’s important to buy locally, imports/exports, food miles and carbon footprint.”
The 10 year six students who were selected will be heading to Dubbo South Public School on Thursday, September 10 to present to other students from around the region.
In preparation for the 20 minute presentation they have researched Australia’s imports and exports and the impact that importing food has on our environment. They will explain to other schools what food miles are and identify steps that we can take to reduce our carbon footprint through reduced carbon emissions.