Education Brazil Project #17660

Young EcoLeaders of the Brazilian Rainforest

by Iracambi

Project Report | Dec 1, 2020
Giving Tuesday and the EcoLeaders

By The Iracambi Team | Rainforest Education champions

Giving Tuesday EcoLeader

Olá, dear donors!

Today’s the day! It’s Giving Tuesday! How exciting is that? We all finally get the chance to give back!

Reach out to someone - even if it's virtually or on the phone. Donate supplies to someone in need. Say a big thank you to a frontline worker, give someone a surprise gift. Support a cause you believe in. Donate to your favorite non profit. Whatever you do to make the world a little brighter, today's the day!

A quick reminder that Giving Tuesday starts today, December 1^st at 00.00.00 ET and runs through 23:59:59 ET on December 1^st. So wherever we are in the world, we’ll all be able to make our donations during daylight hours.

And here's an amazing bonus. This year, GlobalGiving has an incentive fund of ONE MILLION DOLLARS to be divided proportionately among all GlobalGiving partners, according to the amount they raise. So each organization will get a share of the pot, and the money will be allocated at the end of the day. (Which means that we don’t have to worry about matching funds running out before some of us in far flung corners of the world are even out of bed.)

Last year Iracambi raised $11,617 on Giving Tuesday and this year we’re aiming to do even better. So please, if you can, donate to this project and help us Save more Forests and Change more Lives! And please post on your social media and alert all colleagues, friends and family and let’s see if we can make this that best Giving Tuesday ever, OK?

We can’t tell you how grateful we are for your support – this has been a challenging year for us all. Here at Iracambi we had to close the Center to our students, with the result that our income was reduced by almost one third. In fact, if it hadn't been for you, our generous donors, we might have had to close our doors. So we're giving thanks for you all!

Sending lots of rainforest love and a big virtual hug from

The Iracambi team

PS Hot off the press: we started our online environmental leadership course last week and it's turning out to be such a success that we're already planning to hold more courses and reach more people. We'll tell you all about it in our next letter.

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Nov 17, 2020
Let's learn about living and non-living elements!

By Marina, Yasmin and the Iracambi team | Iracambi educators

Living or non-living?

Hello, dear donors!

I hope you continue safe and well? Please take care of yourselves – the world needs good people!

And before we start, here's a headsup. It's just two weeks to Giving Tuesday and this year GlobalGiving has a million dollars in matching funds to stretch your donation! So please alert your friends, colleagues and rich uncles to donate to Iracambi and let's make this the best Giving Tuesday ever, OK?

And now for the inside scoop on what's been happening in environmental education at Iracambi since we last wrote. Exciting news - today is the day we launch our online environmental leadership course, hooray, hooray! We'll tell you more about it in our next letter. (Just a quick hint, we have seventy people signed up, and this week we’ll be giving an introduction to Iracambi, talking a little bit about our work in the rainforest, and then tackling one of the big elephants in the room: climate change!)

But before we report back on that, we wanted to give you a quick look at another of the online science classes that we've been sending out to local schoolkids during this time of lockdown. And the feedback has been super positive.

This one is about Ecosystems. See how you get on with it!

We start by explaining about the ecosystem. It consists of living and non-living elements, right? So, how do we define living organisms? (We'll introduce the terms biotic and abiotic later on.)

* They have a life cycle – they are born and they die.

* They interact and collaborate among themselves. (Yuval Harari, author of Homo Sapiens, points out that this is one of the characteristics that has enabled humans to survive.)

* And lastly, they depend not only on other living organisms, but also on non-living elements.

And then we gave examples of living organisms: humans, horses, sloths, armadillos, chickens, as well as plants: trees, bananas, and palm trees.

After that, we talked about non-living elements and explained the differences.

They don’t have a life cycle, they don’t interact and collaborate among themselves, and they exist independently. Examples we gave are water, air, rocks and soil. We showed some pictures and asked the children to divide them up into living organisms and non-living elements. And then we asked if they knew that we live in the Atlantic Rainforest – one of the richest ecosystems in the world! We asked them to color in the living organisms and mark an X against the non-living elements in the picture.

It was a fun lesson, and the kids really enjoyed it! And in our next letter we'll report back on our online course, OK?

In the meantime please stay safe, and thank you for supporting us as we support the EcoLeaders who will be the future guardians of the planet!

With love from Marina, Yasmin and the Iracambi team

What makes up an ecosystem?

is this one living or non-living?

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Iracambi website

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Nov 3, 2020
The adventures of a little drop of water

By Marina | Project Coordinator

Claudineia Eco Leader

Dear donors,

Greetings from Iracambi and we hope you are all staying safe?

This week we wanted to give you a sneek peak at the science curriculum material we’ve been sharing with our local schoolchildren who are all still in lockdown.

Here’s a translation of one of our lessons - about the water cycle. We invited the kids to color in the illustrations and share the story with their parents, so that they could learn together.

Once upon a time there was a little drop of water who lived inside a cloud which was drifting above a forest at Iracambi. And this is his story.

“My life began in the ocean, where I was just a drop of water among an immensity of salty water. When the temperature rose, I started to lose some of the salt, and I became more transparent and felt lighter. And I was transformed into vapor and started floating into the sky. I flew for miles and miles and I learned that the areas of land in the ocean are called continents and that’s where humans live. Some of them are covered with white stuff called snow which I learned is when water vapor freezes solid.

And then the wind blew me onto a cloud, and the cloud grew more and more heavy and more and more dark, and I began to transform into liquid and started falling towards the earth as a drop of rain. And I fell onto the crown of a tall tree and I ran down its trunk and into the earth, down and down until I hit a body of water, called an aquifer.

And as more and more raindrops joined me, together we began to bubble up through the earth and become a spring. And we kept running into a larger body of moving water called a river. And since the river was running through Iracambi and it was a hot day, I began to become transparent and lighter and I rose up through the air and moved back into a cloud. And as I looked down, I saw a class of children at Iracambi, learning about the forest and learning about the water cycle.

In our next letter we’ll share some of the reactions of the kids to this lesson. They loved it!

In the meantime, stay safe, and thank you, thank you, for supporting us as we support the Eco Leaders who will become the future guardians of the planet!

With love from Marina and the Iracambi team

Iracambi water cycle lesson

water cycle illustrated

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