TY - JOUR AU - Bigelow, Bill AU - Kelly, Alex AU - McKenna, Katie PY - 2015/06/22 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Bringing Climate Into the Classroom: Inside a Teaching Retreat Around Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything JF - Radical Teacher JA - rt VL - 102 IS - 0 SE - Teaching About Climate Change DO - 10.5195/rt.2015.208 UR - https://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalteacher/article/view/208 SP - 35-42 AB - <div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>Jill Howdyshell lives and teaches 5th grade in Togiak, a small Yu’pik fishing village in southwestern Alaska. In Togiak, harvesting berries is a practice that goes back countless generations. The berries are the key ingredient in <em>akutaq</em>, called eskimo ice cream. In her classes, Howdyshell’s students write identity poems with lines proclaiming “I am from <em>akutaq</em>,” and describing cherished excursions with parents and grandparents. In 2014, residents discovered that there would be no berries that year: the tundra had not frozen for a sufficient length of time for the berries to regenerate. With a dramatic rise in temperatures, Yu’pik people can no longer rely on digging deep into the permafrost to store food in makeshift freezers. And most distressing: as a result of rising seas, during the next few years, Yu’pik people will be forced to relocate large parts of their community.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div> ER -