Youth Green Maps
Children and youth take part in green mapmaking all over the world. Youth use shared iconography, create their own local icons, and develop narrative text,
background information, photos, drawings, and poems to represent their home area on a Green Map.
This creative process encourages youth to discover their local environment, identify potential hazards or threats, and suggest solutions. In doing so,
they become empowered citizens and active members of their community.
In 2006, The Sixth Annual Conference for Young Environmentalists marked the apex of SPNI's "Children: Agents of Change" environmental education program.
The theme of the 2006 Children's Conference was the Green Map. Some 80 schools and 3,000 children participated, exploring and creating local Green Maps of the
area. The maps were compiled into the first atlas of its kind in Israel.
Download the Children's Green Map Atlas of Israel here: Part I, Part II,
Part III, Part IV, Part V.
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