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City as Classroom
Audubon Walking Tour Inspires Students
Grade 5 students walked the streets of the Hamilton Heights neighborhood that John James Audubon once called home to see some of the threatened bird species represented in a street art advocacy initiative known as the Audubon Mural Project. The artists are trying to raise awareness about the findings from the 2014 Audubon's Birds and Climate Change Report. In this study, Audubon scientists have used hundreds of thousands of citizen-science observations and sophisticated climate models to predict how birds in the U.S. and Canada will react to climate change. Their work defines the climate conditions birds need to survive, then maps where those conditions will be found in the future as the Earth’s climate responds to increased greenhouse gases. Inspired by these artists, Friends students will hold their own art exhibit later this spring. This will be a collaboration between their visual arts and goLEAD classes.
To view photos from their tour, click here.
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To view photos from their tour, click here.
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Friends Seminary — the oldest continuously operated, coeducational school in NYC — serves college-bound day students in Kindergarten-Grade 12.
