Earth Day Bali

 

Earth Day 2021

 

 

 

Earth Day is celebrated on April 21 every year. However, I think that every day we should raise our students´ awareness  of the importance of protecting our planet.

 

It is never too late to act. On the contrary, we should act everyday doing simple but significant things like taking shorter showers, planting, reducing the amount of waste, recycling, unplugging appliances or devices (vampire energy) and some others you can read below. As usual you will also find some worksheets for your students to do some work and some other activities you may find interesting.

 

I hope you find this post useful and contagious!!

 

 

 

"The April 22 Earth Day, founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson, was first organized in 1970 to promote ecology and respect for life on the planet as well as to encourage awareness of the growing problems of air, water and soil pollution.

The April 22 Earth Day is usually celebrated with outdoor performances, where individuals or groups perform acts of service to earth. Typical ways of observing Earth Day include planting trees, picking up roadside trash, conducting various programs for recycling and conservation, using recyclable containers for snacks and lunches."

Here you are some more suggestions  to work as projects in the classrooms and a worksheet  if you also want to provide some language production.

 

 

 

 

(Taken from: www.earthday.org/2015)

 

 

 

 

The Earth Day flag

 

 

 

 

World Environment Day

Since its inception in 1972, WED has grown into a global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated in more than 100 countries. It also serves as grassroots inspiration for individuals and groups to do something positive for the environment, galvanizing creative individual actions into a collective power that has the potential to generate an exponential positive impact around the world.

 

 

Below you can find some worksheets you can use with your students to raise awareness about the Environment.

 

 

September celebrations

 

September 21st is International Peace Day and World Gratitude Day, this is a good time to thank all the ones who have contributed to  my personal and professional growth and keep trying hard to contribute to Peace.

 

In Peru, we are also getting closer to Spring Day so I thought that to celebrate all these events I could share some material to raise awareness of these two important values: Peace and Gratitude.
Below you can find a card that can be used for discussion for secondary students on the topic of Peace.

Peace Card: http://www.care2.com/send/card/5290

There are also some worksheets for doing Spring crafts

 

 

 a link for a spring game for the little ones

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/label-the-picture/spring

Finally, there is a Brain Teaser activity for Primary.

 

April 22 is Earth Day, I hope you can find some of the suggestions I chose and shared here useful to raise your student´s awareness of this celebration and, most important, take action and make changes at home, at school and in the community to help preserve our natural resources.
 
My first contribution is a reading text taken from the page: http://www.teach-nology.com/themes/science/earth/ 
 
You can find worksheets, lesson plans and some other help about almost any topic and at different levels. Below you will read the teacher guide to Earth Day for introducing the topic and allow students to do further research or to follow it with specific actions on how to deal with the problems mentioned.

Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22. The first Earth Day celebration was in 1970, and was organized by the United States Senator from Wisconsin named Gaylord Nelson to bring political attention to all Americans about how the earth was being neglected by trash and waste of water, electricity and natural resources, like gas. He noticed that there was a lot of pollution and waste in the United States, and believed that if enough people wanted to change the bad habits of turning the Earth into a garbage pile and making all the water dirty, then they could do it one person at a time. Now Earth Day is celebrated all over the world by many countries.

My next contribution to your class is a reading page on Global Warming and the Green house effect  that you can use to focus on specific problems and to initiate research on these issues by preparing your own questions on the text or, even better, asking students to prepare the questions. This page and some other sample pages can be downloaded from the same link above.

 You can send e-cards or ask students to make their own. This is an example of an e-card with a wonderful poem that you can send to your students or use in class for group discussion. You can  find the card in the link below.

 http://www.care2.com/send/earth-day-cards.html

An additional advantage of this page is that :

Sending a free Care2 ecard helps important organizations because Care2 members earn butterfly credits when they send free Care2 ecards. Credits can be redeemed for meaningful gifts like safe drinking water,carbon offsets, or help for shelter pets through amazing organizations.

Members earn the credits and they choose the gifts. Now it's easier than ever to make a difference.

Care2 connects you with over 350 nonprofits, elected officials, and millions of members so that you can take action and make your voice heard.

Last  but not least there is the song Heal the World from Michael Jackson but I found a version with slides that are not from the original video but that really motivate students to see how easy it is to make a change in the world. Warning: Watch the video first since some of the pictures could be really moving and may affect very sensitive people, so you need to decide if it is suitable for your class or not.

  Heal the World (link to video)

 

Remember : You can make a difference every day.