Environmental
Impact
Environmental Impact
NTC implements environmental impact outreach programs for municipal, county and state government agencies, insurance companies, utilities, and corporations. As we all seek to fully understand human impact on our planet, it’s important to match discoveries with education and obstacles with solutions. NTC’s environmental impact programs are designed to empower current and future generations to adopt wise habits that support a healthy environment and promote environmental stewardship.
NTC specializes in multi-dimensional, geo-specific community education and outreach programs that:
- Fill community knowledge gaps
- Inspire sustainable positive behavior change
- Promote the adoption of environmentally friendly habits
- Help shape cleaner and more resilient communities
- Build trust between our clients and their community members
Our programs can focus on educating your communities on:
- Battery recycling
- Waste reduction and diversion
- Water and energy conservation habits
- Climate change, extreme weather and geo-specific natural disasters
- Drought awareness
- Pollution prevention
- Recycling, composting, and waste generation habits
- Environmental stewardship
- Zero waste initiatives
- Green career pathways
- Sustainability and behavior change
Featured Programs
The Big Battery Rescue
An educational program and battery recycling challenge for grades K-5 that aims to reduce the number of household batteries ending up in landfills. Students are taught about battery waste and conservation, the dangers of not recycling batteries properly, and how to prevent battery fires. The program includes an interactive live performance, and classroom lessons and activities designed to educate students and empower them to bring their newfound knowledge into their homes and communities. The education is coupled with a school battery recycling drive and classroom collection buckets, a customized program website with community information on battery collection facilities, and further support for waste diversion initiatives.Conservation Cove
A live, theatrical performance that inspires students to think about how their personal water-usage and everyday habits affect their community, and the world beyond. Two professional actors provide schools with unique educational experiences in an all-school assembly format. The program is split into two experiences corresponding with grades bands K-2 and 3-5, focusing on developmentally appropriate content for each band.
Grades K-2 experience fun characters that appeal to younger students with plenty of opportunities for audience volunteers, and interaction with the performers. Basic geo-specific information on water conservation, pollution and geo-specific-related issues affecting communities are presented in an engaging and youth-friendly way.
The Grades 3-5 performance is aligned with science curriculum, performed in a more sophisticated, straightforward approach to present important water and Earth Science topics. The program is designed to engage older students with an exciting performance with plenty of interaction and audience volunteer opportunities.
Your Planet, Your Future
This 30-minute show presents an online video lesson in energy efficiency for grades 9-12. Our video host will introduce entertaining improv sketches featuring a variety of characters in professionally filmed scenes from our live theatrical productions – and guide classrooms to participate in a discussion on resources and energy conservation. Students and teachers will also have access to an exclusive e-learning package that includes games, quizzes and lesson plans for the classroom that reinforce concepts from the show.
Food, Farms and the Future
Food, Farms and the Future offers classrooms a convenient, online-accessible option for experiencing educational theatre. This 45-minute show presents a virtual lesson in farm science, nutrition and environmental stewardship for grades 6-8. Through an interactive web platform, a live host will introduce entertaining sketches featuring a variety of characters in professionally filmed scenes. Additionally, the program challenges your students (and staff) to strive to be dedicated environmental stewards of our planet.
Educational Points
Every NTC program is built around several educational concepts related to the overall subject matter and supported by the curriculum connected to those concepts.
The content in each of our programs is articulated to appropriately connect to different grade bands in the K–12 setting and align with state and national education standards.
NTC’s programming gives students the opportunity to connect to the natural world through education, helping to produce ecologically literate citizens with a sense of ownership and stewardship of the earth.
- The environmental impact of batteries in landfills
- Why we recycle and compost
- The seven R’s of waste management
- Ways to reduce your carbon footprint
- The impacts of climate change
- The economic impact of inefficient resource use
- Building resilient communities
- Waste reduction and diversion habits
- Energy and water conservation habits
- Material lifecycles
- The true cost of “throwing away”
- Nature doesn’t make waste
- Customized educational concepts: What do you need to teach your communities?