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Earth Ethics Institute and the Environmental Center
at the MDC Kendall Campus
Hosted Students Participating in the Fairchild Challenge
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Environmental Immersion
Day
Thursday, April 7, 2005
Students from Coral Reef, John Ferguson,
Homestead
and Southwest High Schools
started the day viewing the Academy Award nominee Cosmic Voyage.
Filmed for IMAX,
Cosmic Voyage pinpoints where humans fit in our ever-expanding universe.
Highlighting this journey is a 'cosmic zoom' based on the powers of
10, extending from the surface of Earth to the largest observable
structures of the universe, and then back to the sub nuclear realm -
a guided tour across 42 orders of magnitude! Students were exposed
to some of the greatest existing scientific theories, some of which
have never before been visualized on film, from the birth of the
cosmos and solar system to the nature of black holes and exploding
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Ecological Footprint Quiz
An on-line quiz
measuring individual impact on Earth's finite resources helps one
understand what activities affect Earth resources.
Geology Museum,
MDC Kendall Campus
The quiz was followed
by a trip to the MDC Kendall Campus Geology Museum where students
could view limestone and Native American artifacts from this area. |
Tour of the Pine Rocklands
MDC Environmental Center
Jake Tucker, naturalist at the Environmental Center,
guided students through the rich, but fragile pine rocklands ecosystem,
currently under restoration at the MDC Environmental Center at the
Kendall Campus. He introduced them to the restoration process and
pointed out South Florida native
plants and animals. He also discussed exotic flora and fauna
and the impact on the South Florida bioregion.
Students visited the organic demonstration garden at the Center,
identified common vegetables, learned about growing food pesticide
and fertilizer free, picked vegetables and used them to prepare part
of their lunch.
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Sculpture from Found Objects,
Rope and Paint Brushes from Palm
Professor Annette Zimmerman Wells, MDC Art Department, worked
with students to explore the natural environment for materials for
site specific art as well as sculpture.
Brian Peck, naturalist at the
Environmental Center and Native American historian and enthusiast,
taught students how to gather fiber from palms for a hands-on rope
making activity used by Native People in the Everglades. In
addition, students made paint brushes from palm fronds.
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