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Earth Day mural project at Lincoln, made out of recycled bottlecaps and jar lids (developed and facilitated by Art Makers Outpost). Each student decorated a jar lid that went on it, and now hung in the main hallway.

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Ask students, families, and communities about the stories they know, want to share and engage with related to climate action and sustainable practices. Remembering, creating and sharing stories are ways of passing on cultural values, ideas, changemaking, and sustanable practices across time and space. Stories can be documented through many methods including but not limited to multimedia, multilingual, art, digital, photos, comic books, visual stories, poetry, writing, or accompanied by audio recordings.

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Students create signage on how to save energy (ex: turn off the lights, unplug appliances, etc) to be posted in hallways and classrooms.

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Create a map of energy use in the school using simple tools (ex: watt meter, light meter) and then generate suggestions for conservation in different locations.

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Host a Bike, Walk, Roll to School Day at your School

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Host a Bike, Walk, Roll to School Day at your School

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Organize and host a bike, walk and roll to school day at your school to encourage students and staff to travel in a more sustainable way to our schools.

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Install a new bike rack or refresh / improve existing bike racks at the school.

To request new bike racks, contact your D65 school principal who will partner with Buildings & Grounds to install.

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Host an “Idle Free Campaign” at your school to improve air quality and reduce vehicle idling.

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Improve recycling in your school, ideas include:

Recycling Contamination Checks: students use this protocol to check recycling bins if there is contamination (ex: masks, food, liquids, wrappers) and provide feedback to each classroom.

Make sure every classroom has a recycling bin

Create signs to improve recycling education in schools (to be posted on or near recycling bin).

Resource: D65 School Recycling Learning and Resource Hub

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Conduct waste audit in lunchroom to see what makes up the most trash and what can be improved / reduced / recycled / composted, resource: Lunchroom Waste Audit Guide.

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Set-up School Supply Swap Closet in your School

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Set-up School Supply Swap Closet in your School

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Create a School Supply Swap Closet in your school to ensure reuse and save money & time with your school staff.

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Have students create a bulletin board / posters demonstrating how the composting process works and raise awareness in your school.

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One School, One Book school-wide reading using Evanston Public Library Blueberry Awards.

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Earth Month Door Decorating in your School

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Earth Month Door Decorating in your School

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Door decorating to celebrate Earth Month (April) across your School.

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Host an upcycled art project with your students where recyclables are upcycled into new creations, showing the value of reusing and reducing waste.

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Sustainability Field Trip / In-School Visit

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Sustainability Field Trip / In-School Visit

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Plan a sustainability field trip or in-school visit with Evanston Ecology Center,  Emily Oaks Nature Center or The Talking Farm.

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Host a sustainability focused School Assembly, an option could be D65 Alum Joey FineRhyme: Overview, Be The Change, ReGeneration Revolution.

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Create a sustainability scavenger hunt at school (inside & potentially outside) using GooseChase.

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Sustainability Bulletin Boards / Posters

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Sustainability Bulletin Boards / Posters

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Create bulletin boards / posters that spotlight sustainability initiatives and awareness in your school.

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Host an Earth Day parade with your students around your school, would be fun to invite caregivers to join in the celebration.

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For Middle Schoolers: Host a free Ecochallenge event for your school

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For Middle Schoolers: Host a free Ecochallenge event for your school

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For Middle Schoolers: Host a free Ecochallenge event for your school.

What’s Ecochallenge?

Fun and Engaging

Virtual event to host for 3-4 weeks

Learn and build new sustainable habits

Gamified experience

Team feed to share reflections

Free for our Middle Schools

Ecochallenge: D65 How to Guide for Getting Started.

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Litter Clean Up around your School Grounds

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Litter Clean Up around your School Grounds

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Host a litter clean up around your school grounds and potential local community with students. Recommend gloves, trash bags and if possible trash grabbers along with a mapped out route on where students should pick-up litter.

SWANCC $200 grant funding available or borrow supplies at Litter Free Supply Stations (Evanston Ecology Center)

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Plant native plants at your school grounds, following our D65 approval process and follow our Native Planting Guidelines on D65 School Grounds. Develop a plan to pick a location to plant native plants, research and select which type and how many native plants to plant, purchase native plants and any supplies to plant including mulch, plant the native plants and make a watering schedule with students and families following our D65 Best Practices for Watering.

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Enjoy a Nature Walk around your School Grounds

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Enjoy a Nature Walk around your School Grounds

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Go outside and enjoy a nature / wondering walk with your students.

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Plant seeds with students, one suggestion is How to Plant a Seed. It's fun if the students can take home the seeds and watch them grow.

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SSAC Sustainability Seed Planting table sign

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Invite students outside to your school garden to plant (herbs, veggies, fruits) and/or help prepare you school garden for planting by spreading compost, mulch, or cleaning up the garden.

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Make windows safer for birds by installing window treatments on the outside of the school's windows where you've observed bird collisions.

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Co-design and build an outdoor learning space with students, staff and community, starting point is our intro to co-design of outdoor learning spaces.

Ideas for Outdoor Learning Spaces can include a learning garden, seating, artwork, signage and more.

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Plan and install or refresh a sharing library at your school. Options could be books (free little library), non-perishable food items pantry (ex: Lincoln and Dewey), or more ideas students have at your school.

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Host community food drive at your school

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Host community food drive at your school

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Host a food drive to donate food to the fridges.

Recover food from school events and donate to the fridges (individually packaged and labeled). Reimbursement and containers to package food is available, just contact Evanston Community Fridges.

Students contact local grocery stores and retail stores asking to donate recovered food to the community fridges, pitch script and logistics for pick-up and delivery are available from the Evanston Community Fridges.

Students bake goods and donate to the community fridges.

Students compile resources about free food available in Evanston and post / share / spread the word on Fridges and community resources.

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Food Based Mutual Aid | Evanston Community Fridges

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Take what you need, leave what you can. Find Fridge Locations for free food in your neighborhood. Donate funds, food or shop & get reimbursed!