Our Water Heroes are the Defenders of the Future
comMusication + Chadwick phillips + we all need food and waterMeasuring Success
Throughout Time, Stories have always shaped culture and beliefs. "Green Light" messages resonate with people, so they are widely shared.
We know our solution works through the success we’ve had through our collaborations and partnerships. Specifically through the three schools listed below:
St. Paul Public Schools
Enthralled by the show
Kids watching a show during after-school care.
Before the show
Mason Meets a Mason Bee show
Meet our new heroes!
Children wearing superhero masks.
Meet our pollinator protectors!
These kids are fired up to by protect pollinators—and our food supply—by planting native plants for native pollinators, such as mason bees.
Seward Montessori, Minneapolis Public Schools (pictures)
One bead vote
To perform a quick pretest, kids drop a bead in the container that matches what they think
Vote with a bead
Vote with a bead
Vote with a bead
How can you help?
How will you help protect water?
Many hands makes light work!
Children pulling weeds in their school raingarden.
Helping is fun!
Children pulling weeds in their school raingarden.
Learning Time
Children learning about how raingardens work.
The wonders of nature!
Children looking at a butterfly in their school raingarden.
Focused on the wonders of nature
Children looking at a butterfly in their school raingarden.
Drawing and writing about how they can help fight water pollution
We teach children important measures they can take to be part of the solution. These children have pledged to help protect water! by adopting one of the missions they learned about.
Seward Water Heroes!
We teach children important measures they can take to be part of the solution. These children have pledged to help protect water! by adopting one of the missions they learned about.
We have new water heros!
We teach children important measures they can take to be part of the solution. These children have pledged to help protect water! by adopting one of the missions they learned about.
What do you commit to do?
Vote with a bead
Water Heroes Programs
Too much salt!
Too much salt!
Chadwick “Niles” Phillips teaches
Too much salt!
1 teaspoon of salt pollutes 5 gallons of water!
Partnerships
We All Need Food and Water and ComMUSICation partnered in 2020 to implement water education and action expressed through music.
We All Need Food and Water’s mission is to educate about the challenges facing our food and water systems and inspire action. ComMUSICation’s mission is to empower urban youth with skills for success through music, service, and community.
Together, we teach St. Paul youth and families about the importance of water, the challenges our water faces, and ways to protect it. The students performed a rap for the Minnesota House of Representatives to communicate why they felt it was important to limit salt use in the winter. let them will have the chance to showcase what they learned about water and music through musical performances for the community. The students will be synthesizing the information they learned and creating the songs they will perform themselves.
We All Need Food and Water will use their “Defenders of the Future” curriculum as the basis for the water education. Combining science and social studies, the curriculum reveals how, even though humans are negatively impacting the water cycle, regular people (like them) can use their super strengths to turn these challenges around.
This education program extends beyond typical educational programs because it engages the children on a meaningful level and it fosters higher order thinking skills such as analyzing, evaluating, and creating. The students aren’t merely passive receivers of information, but rather pursuing topics that interest them to create their own messages and music.
The Adventure Awaits
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