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L'ensemble des enseignants du Lycée International Franco-Américain est invité à participer à l'événement national "Focus The Nation" qui aura lieu le jeudi 31 janvier 2008. Cet événement n'est pas uniquement une journée d'activités dédiée aux changements (réchauffements) climatiques. C'est aussi un point de départ symbolique, un événement qui marquera le lancement officiel des efforts à long terme de notre école face à ce défi mondial. Cette initiative, à la fois urgente et nécessaire, ne peut être efficace sans le soutien de tous les membres de la communauté du Lycée International Franco-Américain .
Si vous souhaitez aborder les thématiques de Focus The Nation dans votre salle de classe ou revoir l'emploi du temps des activités planifiées, veuillez vous référer aux documents PDF suivants. Merci de votre participation.

French American and International encourage every one of their faculty members to take part in the upcoming event Focus The Nation on Thursday, January 31st 2008. This event is not only a day of school-wide activities on the topic of solutions to climate change (global warming). It is meant as a starting point, a catalyst for long-term climate action at our school. This timely and crucial effort cannot be successful without the support of all our community members.
If you wish to bring Focus The Nation into your classroom or to know about planned activities, please refer to the following PDF documents. Thank you for your participation

For K-12 Teaching Resources on Climate Change, click here

Lower School

Here are documents to discuss Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle practices

Middle School & High School

  • For MORE online resources on climate change, documents to start in-class debates, or a global warming glossary, click here
  • For the Middle school schedule, click here
  • For the High school schedule, click here
  • For a lesson plan on GLACIERS, click here
  • For a JEOPARDY GAME on climate change, click here
  • For a lesson plan on the DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLIMATE & WEATHER, click here
  • Every middle and high school student will have the opportunity to see the movie "An Inconvenient Truth". To download a series of lesson plans based on the movie, click here

 

Climate Action Pledge

The text below is what middle and high school students have decided are the 10 top priority action items they want to be able to commit to during our Focus The Nation Media Event. Those students who choose to commit to just one or all of these actions will sign a giant pledge banner on Focus The Nation Day during our mid-day media event Check out what it looks like!! All faculty members are, of course, welcome to join their students in signing the pledge.

  1. Talking about what I know about climate change to my neighbors, friends, and family
  2. Reducing the number of miles I drive by walking, biking, carpooling, and taking mass transit (carpooling just 2 days a week saves 1,590 lbs of CO2 every year)
  3. Buying locally grown and produced organic foods (it reduces the amount of CO2 emissions linked to growing and transporting my food)
  4. Recycling and buying recycled produts (saves 2,400 lbs of CO2 every year)
  5. Using reusable cloth bags, and avoiding plastic bags and other packaging (cutting down my garbage by 10% sabes 1,200 lbs of CO2 every year)
  6. Planting one tree every year (2,000 lbs of CO2 are absorbed over a tree's lifetime)
  7. Setting my thermostat 2 degrees cooler in winter and 2 degrees warmer in summer (saves up tp 2,000lbs of CO2 every year)
  8. Turning off unnecessary lights and unplugging idle electronic devices (saves up tp 1,000lbs of CO2 every year)
  9. Switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs (each CFL bulb saes 150 lbs of CO2 every year)
  10. Installing low-flow showerheads and faucet heads (saves 350 lbs of CO2 every year)
    As a reference, we emit on average 15,000 lbs of CO2 every year.