Carter Remy

CATEGORIES: Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Social Evironmenal Education

CURRICULUM CATEGORIES: STEM, Health, Social Emotional Learning, Special Ed, Project-Based Learning, Multilingual, Physical Ed, Early Ed, Arts

AGES: Grades K-12, All Ages, Senior Living

PROGRAMS: Available Virtual and Live

ALSO AVAILABLE: Customized Programming, Senior Living, and Professional Development

Carter Remy is a specialist in social and environmental education, focused on empowering and developing youth. He combines outdoor environmental education with collaboration and partnerships to foster growth and learning. Carter aims to ensure that the next generation—and you—work together as stewards of our community. With over a decade of experience working with youth, Carter founded The Next Generation and You, an environmental education company born from his passion for connecting people with nature. Through this initiative, Carter collaborates with non-profits, schools, local organizations, and more to help youth understand concepts such as brownfields, the importance of trees, composting, and more. Carter’s work emphasizes bringing youth, especially Black and Brown youth, to natural spaces to experience and engage with nature.

Carter's expertise lies in program and curriculum design, lesson plan implementation, environmental education activities, professional development, emotional regulation, social-emotional learning, professionalism, interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, and more. Carter utilizes the natural environment as a medium to assist youth and the broader community in these areas and beyond. His ultimate goal is to ensure that we exist in nature while allowing nature to exist within us.

Performances

Color Walk

Students gets to learn how to identify different types of trees while on a trail walk. This trail walk is focused on engaging the five senses by hyper focusing on specific colors that makes nature beautiful. Towards the end of the activity, students will get a chance to reflect by journaling about their experience and how they view nature after the walk.

(Grades K-12, All Ages, Senior Living, Professional Development) 60 Minutes

Nature Mandela

Students will be taken on a forest bathing walk and learn about its importance for humans by engaging with nature. Throughout the walk, students will be given pieces of string and paper (all biodegradable) to leave gratitude notes with a tree that they think speaks to them. Towards the end of the activity, students will create, by utilizing nature as inspiration, a nature mandala artwork symbolizing how they view nature.

(Grades K-12, All Ages, Special Needs, Senior Living, Professional Development) 60 Minutes

Workshops
Fill Your Heart with Nature (Availible Virtual and Live)

Students will get a chance to become stewards of nature by learning about the importance and benefit of different types of flowers as well as their everyday surroundings, including people. As the learning continues, students will get a chance to fill a heart glass shaped jar with natural items in which they will then be able to take home with them.