2022
Coming soon
Goals
Empower students to plan projects that create a positive change in their communities.
Encourage reflection about the importance of environmental education in the formation of students and citizens.
Foster the formation of youth groups with common interests to implement learning and services projects within their communities.
Train youth mentors to become referents on issues related to environment, conservation, nature, human and animal life, and peace.Promote the participation and the exchange of experiences with youths of other regions of Argentina, Latin America and the world which currently form part of the Roots & Shoots global network.
Intended to
Modality
The program is based on 6 thematic modules developed to provide theoretical content and to promote a dynamic forum for exchanges between experts, students and mentors in order to undergo a formative, creative, and dynamic process.
Modules
MODULE 1
Jane Goodall, hope through action
Who is Jane?: compassionate leadership; her story and her contribution to science and wildlife conservation. The JGI and its strategies. COVID19 and its relationship with our planet’s health.
MODULE 2
The environment and its complexity
Biodiversity and its problems. Global frame. Legislation. SDG.
MODULE 3
Environmental education
Concepts, past events, purposes and public involvement. Roots & Shoots model: approaching methodology for socio-environmental projects.
MODULE 4
Biodiversity problems and their relationship with health
Possible approaches to address and solve the issue.
MODULE 5
Project design at home
Territorial mapping of the Root & Shoots model and its adaptation in social isolation contexts. Project planning at home together with the family.
MODULE 6
Communication and storytelling
Technical tools to communicate your project.
In cooperation with:
With the institutional support of:
JGI
JGI is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire individual action and empower people to act towards a fairer and more sustainable world, with special attention to great apes and other living creatures.
Within the educational program Roots & Shoots, training for teachers and community leaders, and activities for children and young people are developed to awaken in them the interest and the appreciation of nature, and the respect for all living things engaging themselves in its care and preservation. The Institute also cooperates with conservation and research existing projects, both in Argentina and in Africa, and performs various campaigns related to environmental conservation, sustainable development and peace.
Dr. Jane Goodall, United Nations Messenger of Peace since 2002, travels around the world giving a message of hope through action so that all of us contribute to improve the world we live in.