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Our Mission: Amplifying Youth Voices for Climate Action
Our Mission: Amplifying Youth Voices for Climate Action
The Children and Youth-Powered Community and Environmental Resilience Project was designed to increase the voice, agency, and self-efficacy of children and youth at Gulf Shore School (Grades 1-9).
Our goal is to empower students in our rural communities to identify, select, develop, and actively participate in climate resilience initiatives. We support them as they become decision-makers and advocates with the power to effect real change in their environments.
Our Projects in Action
Our Projects in Action
Student-Led Inquiry
Student-Led Inquiry
From nature hikes with biologists to invasive species scavenger hunts, building bat boxes, and sustainable clothing design, students led their own learning.
Community Garden Boxes
Community Garden Boxes
Grade 7 students led a project to address food insecurity by designing, building, and planting community garden boxes, with support from The Burly Farmer.
Tree Planting & Habitat Restoration
Tree Planting & Habitat Restoration
Students from multiple grades partnered with the Hunter-Clyde Watershed Group and Parks Canada to plant native trees, helping to restore habitats and learn about ecosystems.
Watersheds & Rain Gardens
Watersheds & Rain Gardens
Grade 1 students helped build a rain garden to learn about flooding, while other classes used watershed models to understand erosion and water filtration.
Our Impact: In Their Own Words
Our Impact: In Their Own Words
"I really like to do the tree planting because outside makes me feel better than inside."
— Grade 4 Student
"Trees and stuff from rain gardens suck up the water to stop it from flooding."
— Grade 1 Student
"I think next year I will start a community garden myself."
— Grade 7 Student
"Probably now that I know how to plant more trees, I will try and plant a little bit more than I did before."
— Grade 5 Student
Our Partners & Supporters
Our Partners & Supporters
This project was made possible by a wide network of community partners.
This project was made possible by a wide network of community partners.
Project Lead
Project Lead
Gulf Shore Community Health Corporation
Core Partners
Core Partners
North Shore Climate Action for Resilience (NSCaR)
Gulf Shore Consolidated School (K-9)
CLIMAtlantic
Funder
Funder
Province of PEI Climate Challenge Fund
Key Community Resources
Key Community Resources
Parks Canada
PEI Invasive Species Council
Hunter-Clyde Watershed Group
The Burly Farmer
Indigenous Elder Mathilda Knockwood
UPEI Centre for Climate Change
...and many more!
What's Next?
What's Next?
This successful pilot project provided valuable lessons on integrating student-led climate inquiry into our schools. The project team is now developing a Curriculum Considerations Report to share these findings and help other educators and communities implement similar programs.
Final Report
Final Report
Final Report_Climate Challenge Fund Project_GulfShore_MARCH 2025_Final Version.pdfPage updated
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