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Inspiring Student Leadership Development
to Address Mitigation and Adaptation:
“Edventure” Learning Through
PaddleSport
Cynthia L. Tomovic, Ph.D.
Professor, STEM Education and Professional Studies, Darden College of Education
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
[email protected]
What Does the Public Think
about Climate Change?
• About 65% of Americans believe that climate change is
happening and that it is human caused - stable over last 5
years; only 13% have very strong views on occurrence and
13% have very strong views that it is not
• Who do they expect to take action? – The business
community, government, ordinary Americans – but question
their level of commitment
• What do they want to see done? – Clean energy, clean air &
water, better health
Yale Project on Climate Change Communications and George Mason University Center for Climate Change
Communications (2015). Climate Change in the American Mind.
Social Science Driven Process Model
of Communicating Sea Level Rise
How do we excite our children
and young adults about the
challenges and opportunities of
adaptation and mitigation
related to climate change and
sea level rise?
Encourage STEM disciplines in
context!
National Science
Foundation
Adventure Engineering (1999) – design centered,
inquiry based approach to improve middle school
(grades 5 – 9) science and mathematics education
by developing and offering fun, effective, teamoriented project-based activities.
Tell them stories and give
them real-world
problems
to solve!
“Story telling (that enforce a belief system)
and scenario planning are tools for ordering
our perceptions about alternative future
environments in which today’s decisions
might be played out.”
National Academy of Engineering (2004). The Engineer of 2020.
Harari, Yuval N. (2015). Sapiens: A brief history of humankind.
Challenge?
Encouraging Children to
Think about the Application
of STEM in Adapating and
Mitigating the Effects of
Climate Change and Sea
Level Rise
British Canoe Union Partnership
with Public Education
Paddle-Sport: System of Learning
David W. Train
Former British Canoe Coach
Paddle-Sport Program
System of Activities
David. W. Train
• Children’s stories and accompanying
stuffed animals
• Bell and Liberty Bell Boating
• Paddle for Life
• Main Festivals for Earth
Children’s Books
“Gran Marr, Walter, Winnie”
The Secret of the Silent Bell and
Special Cell: A Vision for Great Europe
(1999), David Train.
• Gran Mar – flying tortoise
• Walter – tortoise
• Winnie – hare
Gran Mar discovers on her flights how sick mother
earth is and invites Walter and Winnie to help her to
communicate and educate the people on earth about
what they can do to change their behavior to save her.
Bell Boat
School on the Water
Liberty Bell Boat
Build Out – Proto Type
Liberty Bell Boat
Build Out
Liberty Bell Boat
Earth Day
Liberty Bell Boat
Build Out
Liberty Bell Boat
Liberty Bell Boat
Maiden Voyage
CommunityVersity Partnership:
Leadership and
Team Development in Support
of Mitigation and Adaptation
Sword and a Shield
“How can we turn a sword and
a shield, symbols of conflict,
into a symbol of cooperation?”
“Paddle for Life”
• Symbolic for cooperation
• ….so we can “pull together”
Leadership Qualities
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Friendship
Common sense
Effort
Responsibility
Cooperation
Organization
Courage
Initiative
Patience
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Curiosity
Problem solving
Perseverance
Caring
Integrity
Flexibility
Sense of humor
Resourcefulness
Paddle for Life
3rd Graders
Paddle for Life
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3 Graders
College Students
College Students
Main Festivals
for Earth
• Means to draw public attention to issues
of sustainability
• Built around Bell Boats and Liberty Bell
Boats, Paddle for Life, in safely designed
water games and regattas, and voyages
Main Festival for Earth
Main Festival for Earth
Progress to Date in U.K.
• Over 400 Bell Boats distributed
• Proto-typed “Liberty Bell Boat”
• Over 100 regattas and Paddle for Life events held
annually via Main Academy Global; over 5,000
participants involved
• School teachers, environmentalists, British Canoe
Union involved in curriculum development
• Relays down major rivers in Germany, England
• Bell Boats being sent to India, China, US, Pakistan
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National and International
Figure Heads
Most British MPs signed Trophy Paddle for Life
President, Wal-Mart Europe
Mayor, Beijing
President Purdue University, Martin Jischke
Governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty
Will Steger , Polar Explorer and Mountaineer
Minnesota and Indiana U.S. Senators Franken, Klobuchar, Lugar
Lord Nicholas Stern, Stern Review – 700 page report on effect of
climate change and global warming on world economy
Jose Manuel Duras Barroso, President, European Commission ; former Prime
Minister, Portugal
Tony Blair, former Prime Minister, England
David Cameron, Prime Minister, England
Wawng Anshun, Mayor of Beijing, China
President Dailia Grybauskaite, Lithuania
“Paddle for Life”
Archbishop of Canterbury and
David Train
“Paddle for Life”
Lord Nicholas Stern and David Train
“Paddle for Life”
Tony Blair and David Train
“Paddle for Life”
Liz Lynne, Jose Barroso, President of
European Commission and David Train
“Paddle for Life”
David Cameron and David
Train
Progress to Date in U.S.
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Liberty Bell Boat
– 4 boats constructed: 3 with community leaders and teens-at-risk, 1 as university freshmen
engineering project
Paddle for Life
– Elementary school: over 120 kindergartners and 25 American teachers
– Middle school: over 1000 children, third and fifth graders, 14 American teachers
– Teens at Risk – working with juvenile court system
– University: 180 college students
Main Festivals for Earth
– 20 festivals in Indiana and Minnesota
Major purpose of activities is to inform and excite participant interest in STEM disciplines,
and about importance of leadership and team development in creating personal commitment
and community action required to address local and global environmental challenges.
International Figure Heads
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Will Steger, Polar Explorer
Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar, US Senators – Minnesota
Tim Pawlenty and Mark Dayton, Governors of Minnesota
Richard Lugar, Senator of Indiana
“Paddle for Life”
Dick Lugar, U.S. Senator
Indiana
“Paddle for Life”
Minnesota Reggata
Will Steger – Polar
Explorer/Mountaineer
“Paddle for Life”
Al Franken, U.S. Senator
Minnesota
“Paddle for Life”
Amy Klobuchar, U.S. Senator
Minnesota
Future Events
• Develop curriculum with input of U.S. teachers
• Map activities and learning outcomes to national/state
mathematics and science standards, ITEEA technology
literacy standards
• Add CAD
• Add Modeling and Simulation component
• Conduct more workshops, collect and analyze data,
disseminate results
• Work with interested foundations and agencies; MARI
• Conduct Main Festivals for Earth, regattas, relays with
public officials – President Obama and family on the
Potomac River
British Partnership
• Environment Agency
• British Canoe Union
• Teachers interested in using water
sport to meet curriculum needs
BRAINSTORMING
Hampton Roads Partnerships
• Who would be interested?
Stakeholders
• How to proceed?
• Process?
SAVING THE BLUE PLANET WITH
A “PADDLE FOR LIFE”
CommuniVersity Partnership