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In a continuation of our ongoing Silver Linings project, The Aspen Times has collaborated with the Aspen Middle School sixth-grade class to present their capstone project, “My Great Realization.”
The sixth-grade project required the students to reflect on the past pandemic year, the challenges they and their families faced and identify what positive experiences or silver linings occurred during the pandemic that they can bring with them as they move forward into the world.
“As teachers and as a school we really want to highlight that there’s been a lot of great things to come from this, and maybe silver linings or skills that we’ve developed that are going to be really beneficial for the world that we are going into that’s completely changed,” said Kristen Zodrow, a sixth-grade math teacher at Aspen Middle School.
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Bill Peressini Tell me the one about the virus again, and then I ll go to bed. So begins The Great Realization, a popular video poem from Tomos Roberts chronicling how in the years after enduring a deadly pandemic, the world emerged a better place. Ironically, despite the suffering caused by the virus, it somehow brings life back into sharper relief.
2020 was supposed to be the super year for nature; yet even as the United Nations passed its resolution declaring so, COVID-19 was spreading undetected around the globe. Human encroachment on wildlife habitats as well as tropical deforestation have since been linked to emerging zoonotic diseases like COVID-19. Nature had a very strong voice at the table when disaster struck, and we learned the hard way that public health depends on planetary health.