Earth Day is Every Day!

Every Earth Day the students go outside and clean up the playground. Teachers talk about all the trash that is collected. Kids shake their heads in disbelief and say ‘I won’t litter. I don’t litter.’ Then, a week or two goes by and there is the trash again. Hmmm…

How can this Earth Day be different? How can we, the citizens of Room 309, exact change in our little corner of the world? In Rm. 309, Earth Day is every day. We live it, we breathe it, we walk the walk and talk the talk. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. What do the three R’s really mean? Is recycling enough? How can I (we) reduce what we use? How can we reuse more? Should Earth Day merely be a day to pick up trash and talk about recycling or can it be much more?

To my students:

 First–research the origin of Earth Day. Write a paragraph detailing Earth Day and its beginning. Include the founder of Earth Day and the date of the first Earth Day.

Second–how would you like for our class to celebrate Earth Day this year? Ideas could be: write poems, songs, stories about the Earth and our environment, go outside and hug a tree, etc. Write a detailed paragraph outlining your ideas. We will vote on the favorite ideas and complete them in our Earth Day celebration! 

And if any of you wish to do any ‘Extra Credit’ you can research Rachel Carson and her significance to all of this!

To our visitors: Please post your ideas about Earth Day. How will you celebrate? Or better yet, how do you celebrate Earth Day every day? We would really appreciate hearing from everyone who visits our blog. If you do, we would be glad to send you a postcard from our town of Pleasantville, New Jersey, USA!!

Some links to use when doing your research:

http://holidays.kaboose.com/earth-day/history/earthday-history.html

http://earthday.wilderness.org/history/

http://www.epa.gov/earthday/history.htm

 

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