Arkansas Kids Investigate Birds and Climate Change
The students worked with Little Rock 探花精选 Center to report on global warming.
recently enlisted the help of 19 local students to create a video newscast about how climate change is affecting birds. The video, produced by filmmaker Gabe Gentry, is part of the center鈥檚 new display about how our warming climate threatens 152 species of birds in Arkansas ().
The students featured as Very Junior Anchors and Very Junior Correspondents attend the Our Club after-school and summer program, held at Little Rock 探花精选 Center through a partnership with Pulaski County Youth Services. Uta Meyer, youth program manager for the center, says the majority of the center鈥檚 audience is elementary and middle school students, so the 鈥渇or kids, by kids鈥 newscast (excerpted below) gets their attention. The video and display encourage visitors to talk with their elected officials about climate change, provide habitat for birds by adding native plants to their yard, and save energy at home.
Meyer says that young viewers have been especially excited to see someone their age interviewing Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola and State Senator Joyce Elliott, adding, 鈥淶ion, one of the anchors, tells me at least once a week that he wants to make another video.鈥 You can .