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Learning Links
Links to fun and interactive ways to learn about sustainability in your home, school, and community.
Getting Involved
Links to fun and interactive ways to learn about sustainability in your home, school, and community.
Challenges and Competitions
Links to fun and interactive ways to learn about sustainability in your home, school, and community.
Career Development
Links to fun and interactive ways to learn about sustainability in your home, school, and community.
Equity and Climate Action at DPS
Links to fun and interactive ways to learn about sustainability in your home, school, and community.
Get to School in a Climate-Friendly Way
Links to fun and interactive ways to learn about sustainability in your home, school, and community.
Welcome Students!
A Quick Note Celebrating students taking initiative.
– LeeAnn Kittle, Director of Sustainability
Learning Links
Our Climate Our Future
A video series developed by Action for the Climate Emergency, geared towards educating students on the science of climate change and inspiring and empowering them to take action.
Xcel Energy’s E-Smart Kids
A comic book-themed hub for learning about electricity, energy science, and safety through a variety of activities, games, and videos.
Denver Recycles Sorting Game
A web-based waste sorting game to help players learn what to recycle.
Denver Botanic Gardens Pollinator Game
Bring this printout or pdf to the Botanic Garden and learn what flowers are pollinated by which pollinators.
Denver Zoo Virtual Tours and Virtual Safari
Learn about all the animals at the Denver Zoo on a virtual tour and see behind the scenes interactions with zookeepers and the animals.
Audubon Society Activities for Kids
Get to know different types of birds, get tips on birdwatching, and learn about how to help birds in their natural habitats.
EPA Carbon Footprint Calculator
How many greenhouse gas emissions does your household create? Use this interactive calculator to estimate based on your zip code, habits, and personal choices!
Water Footprint Calculator
How much water do you use every day? What about virtual water? Learn more about water footprints with this great resource!
Kiva Center
Get outside with the Kiva Center and learn more about stewardship and build community!
DPS Sustainability Team
Getting Involved
Groundwork Denver
Join Groundwork Denver’s Youth Teams and learn how to become an environmentalist while receiving employment and professional development!
Youth Sustainability Board (YSB)
Get involved with this student-run nonprofit dedicated to recruiting students like you to take action in sustainability.
Consumption Literacy Project
Find out how to reduce waste in your daily life by participating in a CLP program!
Youth Exploring Stewardship Coalition
Want to get outside and take care of the environment? Find opportunities to get involved in local environmental stewardship through the YES Coalition.
Earth Force
Earth Force supports environmental education organizations be better advocates and students who want to solve environmental problems.
Plant a Row Colorado | Plant a Row for the Hungry
Local initiative based on Plant a Row for the Hungry
Are you a budding gardener? Plant an extra row of produce and donate to help feed Denver’s hungry through Plant a Row!
Action for the Climate Emergency
Learn how to take action, start a climate action campaign, and join a nationwide network of high school climate advocates!
Colorado Sierra Club
Join your local chapter of one of the oldest environmental advocacy organizations in the country!
Big Green at Home
Learn how to grow your own food, cook with your produce, and more about your local food systems with your family and friends!
Climate Action Academy
Are you a changemaker? Learn how to take climate action and solve tough problems through a CAC program!
Slow Food Denver
Learn about food justice and sustainable food systems while getting in the kitchen or in the garden by volunteering or a summer program!
People and Pollinators Action Network
Learn how to volunteer to protect pollinators, advocate for change, and plant native plant gardens.
McKinley-Thatcher Elementary
Challenges and Competitions
Biomimicry Institute Youth Design Challenge
Engage with this hands-on, project-based STEM learning experience on bio-inspired design!
The RISE Challenge
Conduct research on your own community and make a plan to solve a local climate resiliency problem!
Purple Plow Challenge
Create solutions for real-world, complex food systems and agriculture problems!
Resource Central Renew Our Schools
Join this energy conservation competition and get involved with tracking and saving energy at your school!
People.Power.Planet
Compete with other schools to reduce energy use, improve comfort in your classrooms, and increase sustainability engagement and awareness!
DPS Sustainability Team
Career Development
Spark Industry Introduction | Career and Technical Education
DPS’s career fair
Frontline Farming
A collective for BIPOC farmers with an apprenticeship program.
Sprout City Farms
Also operates a farming apprenticeship program.
McKinley-Thatcher Elementary
Equity and Climate Action at DPS
DPS Climate Action Student Group
- Board Passes Student-led Climate Policy – Press Release
- Students Push for Climate Policy – Press Release
Learn more about what DPS is doing to ensure equity throughout the district.
DPS Equity Statement
DPS Equity and Engagement Page
Denver Equity Index (2020)
Learn more about equity in Denver.
DPS Sustainability Team
Get to School in a Climate Friendly Way
Commute DPS Guide
Make a travel plan to get to school with this guide!
Denver’s Safe Routes to School Plan
The City of Denver wants to help students get to school safely with this plan. Find out more information and analyses through this interactive StoryMap.
RTD Pass Program
DPS has a partnership with RTD to help connect students and staff with public transit options.
RTD Trip Planner
Figure out your public transit route to school!
McKinley-Thatcher Elementary
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