At today's event we scheduled at Microsoft Teams, we had an hour-long socializing where we all asked ourselves the following questions:
-What are climate change?
- How does climate change affect my local community?
- How access to multiple perspectives can provide a new direction for
action?

The students were introduced to the free EarthProject app (EarthProject App) which will enable students aged 13+ to learn more about climate change, its direct impact and how each of them can contribute to a mission to reduce it.
 The importance of the Climate Action Booklist for Classrooms was also shared with them
https://bit.ly/tagbooklist for middle school students (ages 12-15)

The students watched one of the videos offered (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS0ZIUtsQHg) on ​​the impact of climate change in Europe. The video discusses that climate change is already having a major impact on ecosystems, the economy and the health and well-being of people in Europe. New records continue to be set for global and European temperatures, sea levels and reduced Arctic sea ice. Rainfall patterns are changing, generally making wet regions in Europe wetter and drier regions drier. The volume of the glacier and the snow cover are decreasing. At the same time, climate-related extremes, such as heat waves, heavy rainfall, and droughts, are increasing in frequency and intensity in many regions. Improved climate projections provide further evidence that climate-related extremes will increase in many European regions.

Once the discussion was over, we went to https://www.footprintcalculator.org/en/quiz/0/food/category where we measured our impact on the environment. The results were astonishing, ie if every inhabitant of the planet earth would live like us (we were all one person in this environmental calculator), then we would need 4.5 planets to live well without endangering biodiversity. A great lesson has been learned from this that everyone must make their own change for the better in order to leave the best possible impression on the planet earth.

At the end of this meeting we agreed on an exercise-research: Explore the effects of climate change on our planet locally.
-Flora (plants)
-Fauna (animals)
-Time schemes
-Human activity and way of life

Each of the students was given the task to do a local survey on one of the points in their environment. They were also given the opportunity to interview local business owners to see if they were changing their business models and planning to adapt to the effects of climate change.

We expect their reflections three days later.