Environmental
Impact
Environmental Impact
NTC implements environmental impact outreach programs for insurance companies, government agencies, utilities, first-response organizations 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 in order to empower current and future generations as environmental stewards.
NTC’s environmental impact programming includes:
- Emergency preparedness
- Geo-specific natural disasters
- Drought awareness
- Climate change and extreme weather
- Waste reduction
- Recycling and composting
- Anti-pollution initiatives
- Environmental issues related to energy production
- Green career pathways
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. Words matter, and we work with each individual client to craft messaging that presents your unique industry information to the schools in your communities.
Give your communities the opportunity to be connected to the natural world through education. NTC’s programming helps you to produce ecologically literate citizens with a sense of ownership and stewardship of the earth.
- The difference between hazards, emergencies and disasters
- The importance of a family emergency plan
- What to put in an emergency kit
- How to prepare for geo-specific disasters
- How wildfires start and how to prevent them
- Ways we can save and protect water
- The seven R’s of waste management
- Ways to reduce your carbon footprint
- The impacts of climate change
- Building community resilience
- Customized educational concepts: What do you need to teach your communities?
Featured Programs
Ready or Not
You can’t teach during an emergency. That’s why our flagship emergency preparedness program, Ready or Not, is designed for K-12 students and their families in any region of the U.S., and is customizable to include messaging on any emergency or geo-specific community.
As a NOAA Weather Ready Nation Ambassador, NTC is well aware of the benefits of educating communities on how to prepare for any emergency. In addition to featuring information about different types of hazards, emergencies and disasters, our emergency preparedness outreach includes details on how to make a Family Communication Plan and preparedness kit.
Beyond the community relations benefits our emergency preparedness outreach provides, it can also help organizations prioritize mitigation over recovery, ultimately reducing costs in the event of an emergency or disaster.
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.
Energy Game Changers
A “game changer” is someone or something that leads to a breakthrough – a new way of thinking and acting around something that seems set in stone. An energy game changer is someone who embraces energy conservation, renewable resources and innovative behaviors with an eye toward the future. The educational in-school program Energy Game Changers is designed to get elementary and middle school students interested in fighting the environmental impact of climate change and caring for the planet, along with their families.
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.
Earth Day is a celebration and more than 1 billion people world-wide celebrate it each year. But it needs to be a call to action.