Ms.Huxtable Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 Hello you most wonderful of people. (Teachers that is, not lurkers). I would like to do an environmental-themed event in a school in September or October and have no idea what age group, what school, what type of event I want to do yet. I'll have a couple thousand dollars for budget. My goal is really to educate, make environmental issues fun, bring awareness, have a group activity clean up or something along those lines. I'm looking for suggestions from the teachers on the site. Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 This may give some direction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 I can ask my wife. I don't recall her doing one with her kindergarten kids though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 I'm not a teacher, but I saw an episode of CBC's "Marketplace" that dealt with recycling batterieshttp://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/batteries_not_included/and they featured a school in St. Catherines that ran a "dead battery drive." Maybe something like that would be good?Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdy Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 Plant for the Planet!!!The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has launched a major worldwide tree planting campaign. Under the Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign, people, communities, business and industry, civil society organizations and governments are encouraged to enter tree planting pledges online with the objective of planting at least one billion trees worldwide each year. In a call to further individual and collective action, UNEP has set a new goal of planting 7 billion trees by the end of 2009.Billion Tree Campaign I'm driving coast to coast in September as part of my 30th bday extravaganza and am going to plant twenty trees in each province along the way to mark my trail. I love this program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms Zimmy Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 (edited) I'm an esl teacher, does that count? I always thought that the best way to reach kids is to show them. Example: have a forest conservationist come and teach them about trees, go to a park, talk about plants, what they needs, what kills them etc. Bringing kids into their own environment to teach (as oppose to a movie) and learning about how it affects them directly. You could also have a little project that they can do to win a prize (give them 2 weeks after or before your event todraw a picture or whatnot and you can take some of your budget money for an "environmental" prize...good for promotion later on too). Good Luck EDIT TO ADD: Billion tree campaigne would be awesome. Edited June 12, 2008 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c-towns Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 I could come in and give them a dose of what really goes on in the environmental industry instead of all the tree planting love stories the media likes to pour down our throats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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