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🌍 Welcome to Our Earth Day Journalism Digital Showcase! 📰🌱

In celebration of Earth Day, our young reporters from the Elementary Newspaper Club stepped outside the classroom and into nature.

Armed with their curiosity, creativity, and iPads, these wonderful journalists explored the outdoors to listen, observe, and report, not as themselves, but as voices of nature.

Through interviews, photos, video clips, and short articles, they brought life and personality to the world around us, reminding us all to care more deeply for our planet.

We hope you enjoy their powerful messages and Earth Day stories!

Because sometimes the smallest voices say the biggest things.

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Beautiful nature videos

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I like the nature, I like the trees, I LIKE FLOWERS!!!

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Voices of Nature: Flowers at School - Save All Plants

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Voices of Nature: Flowers at School - Save All Plants

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Common flowers talk about how important it is to plant every flower.

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Naturrreee meow meow. Find the playground and go to the place where there are paintings, and then you’ll find the cat, the cat's name is Oreo.

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Back then, nature was really beautiful, but now it’s just a empty abyss.

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This is nature then vs. now by Aria V.

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It’s up to you!

Follow these simple rules to change the nature:

Water your plants every day.

Do not trespass a protected area

Plant at least one plant each day

Don’t litter in a natural area

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Its up to you to take care of our planet 

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Help our Planet Earth by taking care of our plants🫛🫚🪴🪻🌱💐🌺🌸🌹🌷🌻🍀🌲🥀🌴🌼☘️🌿🍃🌱🌵🌳🍂🍁🍄🎍🌾🪻🪷🪴🍄‍🟫🎋🫚🫛

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This is Catty/Oreo but he is so scared because everyone is scaring him. So please take care of him.

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This is Catty/Oreo and he is to scared because everyone is scaring him. So please take care of him.

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Are you a friend or a skeptic? Please let me know!

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Do you like the picture?

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Creating art!

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This is for you!

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This is our school cat Oreo and he is so scared because we are scaring him. Protect the cats!

Warning: This is an AI image. See the real cat in our greenhouse.

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Let the beauty of the earth remind you to slow down and look around.

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Let the beauty of the earth remind you to slow down and look around.

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Do you like this?

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This is the best flower that I've seen around school.

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Every bloom is a reminder that beauty takes time.

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This is what happens when the sun and earth fall in love.

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This is what happens when the sun and earth fall in love.

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Yellow flowers tell me that we all can change the world.

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How one man started the world's largest beach cleanup

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‘Forest Bathing’ Is Great for Your Health. Here’s How to Do It

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‘Forest Bathing’ Is Great for Your Health. Here’s How to Do It

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‘Forest Bathing’ Is Great for Your Health. Here’s How to Do It

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‘The key to unlocking the power of the forest is in the five senses’

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Using the Habitat Heroes survey on a smartphone or tablet, find a place that is good for: bumblebees, butterflies, birds, worms, spiders and some other animals!

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Our huge pine trees

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Are we helping our school environment? Littering is still happening at ACS and people are destroying our green areas.

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Look at our beautiful palm tree

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In addition to taking pictures and recording videos, this little journalist looked for great articles to inspire others to care for our planet and be the voice of nature.

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A pigeon tells me why he is scared.

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Did you know that bees dance to communicate 

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Did you know that bees dance to communicate 

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A honeybee is performing the waggle dance in the center of this photo to communicate the location of a rich nectar source to its nestmates. Heather Broccard-Bell, CC BY-ND

The Greek historian Herodotus reported over 2,000 years ago on a misguided forbidden experiment in which two children were prevented from hearing human speech so that a king could discover the true, unlearned language of human beings.

Scientists now know that human language requires social learning and interaction with other people, a property shared with multiple animal languages. But why should humans and other animals need to learn a language instead of being born with this knowledge, like many other animal species?

This question fascinates me and my colleagues and is the basis for our recent paper published in the journal Science. As a biologist, I have spent decades studying honeybee communication and how it may have evolved.

There are two common answers to why language should be learned or innate. For one, complex languages can often respond to local conditions as they are learned. A second answer is that complex communication is often difficult to produce even when individuals are born with some knowledge of the correct signals. Given that the ways honeybees communicate are quite elaborate, we decided to study how they learn these behaviors to answer this language question.

What is a waggle dance?

Astonishingly, honeybees possess one of the most complicated examples of nonhuman communication. They can tell each other where to find resources such as food, water, or nest sites with a physical "waggle dance." This dance conveys the direction, distance and quality of a resource to the bee's nestmates.

Essentially, the dancer points recruits in the correct direction and tells them how far to go by repeatedly circling around in a figure eight pattern centered around a waggle run, in which the bee waggles its abdomen as it moves forward. Dancers are pursued by potential recruits, bees that closely follow the dancer, to learn where to go to find the communicated resource.

Longer waggle runs communicate greater distances, and the waggle angle communicates direction. For higher-quality resources such as sweeter nectar, dancers repeat the waggle run more times and race back faster after each waggle run.

Making mistakes

This dance is difficult to produce. The dancer is not only running - covering about one body length per second - while trying to maintain the correct waggle angle and duration. It is also usually in total darkness, amid a crowd of jostling bees and on an irregular surface.

Bees therefore can make three different types of mistakes: pointing in the wrong direction, signaling the wrong distance, or making more errors in performing the figure eight dance pattern - what researchers call disorder errors. The first two mistakes make it harder for recruits to find the location being communicated. Disorder error may make it harder for recruits to follow the dancer.

Scientists knew that all bees of the species Apis mellifera begin to forage and dance only as they get older and that they also follow experienced dancers before they first attempt to dance. Could they be learning from practiced teachers?

A 'forbidden' bee experiment

My colleagues and I thus created isolated experimental colonies of bees that could not observe other waggle dances before they themselves danced. Like the ancient experiment described by Herodotus, these bees could not observe the dance language because they were all the same age and had no older, experienced bees to follow. In contrast, our control colonies contained bees of all ages, so younger bees could follow the older, experienced dancers.

We recorded the first dances of bees living in colonies with both population age profiles. The bees that could not follow the dances of experienced bees produced dances with significantly more directional, distance and disorder errors than the dances of control novice bees.

We then tested the same bees later, when they were experienced foragers. Bees who had lacked teachers now produced significantly fewer directional and disorder errors, possibly because they had more practice or had learned by eventually following other dancers. The dances of the older control bees from colonies with teachers remained just as good as their first dances.

This finding told us that bees are therefore born with some knowledge of how to dance, but they can learn how to dance even better by following experienced bees. This is the first known example of such complex social learning of communication in insects and is a form of animal culture.

Dance dialects are about distance

A mystery remained with respect to the bees that had lacked dance teachers early on. They could never correct their distance errors. They continued to overshoot, communicating greater distances than normal. So, why is this interesting to scientists? The answer may lie in how distance communication could adapt to local conditions.

There can be significant differences in where food is distributed in different environments. As a result, different honeybee species have evolved different " dance dialects," described as the relationship between the distance to a food source and the corresponding waggle dance duration.

Interestingly, these dialects vary, even within the same honeybee species. Researchers suspect this variation exists because colonies, even of the same species, can live in very different environments.

If learning language is a way to cope with different environments, then perhaps each colony should have a distance dialect tailored to its locale and passed on from experienced bees to novices. If so, our teacher-deprived individual bees may never have corrected their distance errors because they acquired, on their own, a different distance dialect.

Normally, this dialect would be learned from experienced bees, but could potentially change within a single generation if their environmental conditions changed or if the colony swarmed to a new location.

In addition, each colony has a "dance floor," or the space where bees dance, with complex terrain that the dancers may learn to better navigate over time or by following in the footsteps of older dancers.

These ideas remain to be tested but provide a foundation for future experiments that will explore cultural transmission between older and younger bees. We believe that this study and future studies will expand our understanding of collective knowledge and language learning in animal societies.

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Unlocking secrets of the honeybee dance language - bees learn and culturally transmit their communication skills

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Honeybees possess one of the most complex examples of nonhuman communication. New research suggests that it is learned and culturally passed down from older to younger bees.

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Aprende más sobre nuestro Planeta Tierra.

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Aprende más sobre nuestro Planeta Tierra.

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¿Sabías que la gravedad de la Tierra no es la misma en todos los lugares? ¿O que hay rocas que caminan?

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Here are some facts to make you more interested in nature:

Butterflies taste with their feet

Dolphins have names for each other

Antarctica is an extreme continent

The largest living organism is a fungus

Flamingos get their color from their diet

Earth was once thought to be a perfect sphere, but it's not

Trees can talk secretly

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Do you have plants in your home or garden? Plants are all shapes a

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Do you have plants in your home or garden? Plants are all shapes and sizes. They are important for people and animals. They make our lives better in many ways. How do plants help us? Read to find out!

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Plants give us oxygen.

Oxygen is in the air we breathe. All living things need it. Plants make oxygen.

BARBARA RICH-GETTY IMAGES

Plants give us food.

Many plants are good to eat. Vegetables are plants. Fruits, nuts, beans, and seeds come from plants.

KENNY WILLIAMSON-ALAMY

Plants give us shade.

Trees are the largest plants. In the summer, trees are full of leaves. The trees make shadows. On a hot, sunny day, sit under a tree. You will stay cool in its shade.

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Plants give us shelter × shelter GETTY IMAGES a place to live ( ) Some snakes use logs for shelter. .

Birds, insects, and many other animals live in trees and other plants. People use wood from trees to build homes.

OXFORD SCIENTIFIC/GETTY IMAGES

Science Scoop

Did you know that some plants eat bugs? Each leaf of the Venus flytrap holds a sweet juice × juice PAUL VOZDIC-GETTY IMAGES a liquid that can be squeezed out of plants and fruits ( ) Sarah drinks orange juice for breakfast. . When a bug tries to sip the juice, the leaf snaps shut. It takes about a week for the plant to finish its insect meal!

Think!

What is your favorite flower? Why? Describe it!

Stay Away from Me!

Plants can't run from animals that want to eat them. But they do have ways to stay safe. Read the clues to learn about some plant defenses. Look at the photos. Then write the letter of the plant that matches each clue.

A: ED RESCHKE-GETTY IMAGES; B: GETTY IMAGES; C: ANNA GRIGORJEV-EYEEM/GETTY IMAGES; D: DANITA DELIMONT/GETTY IMAGES

1. This plant grows poisonous fruits. The fruits are small red berries.

2. This plant has many sharp white spines. They stop animals from eating it.

3. If you touch this plant, you can get a rash. Each stem has three green leaves.

4. This plant has a pretty flower. Be careful! The pointy thorns on its stems can prick you.

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Do you have plants in your home or garden? Plants are all shapes and sizes. They are important for people and animals. They make our lives better in many ways. How do plants help us? Read to find out! Plants...

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Scientists discover 2 new species of crocodile hiding in plain sight!

https://www.livescience.com/animals/alligators-crocodiles/scientists-discover-2-new-species-of-crocodile-hiding-in-plain-sight

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Scientists discover 2 new species of crocodile hiding in plain sight

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A crocodile DNA study has revealed two previously unknown Crocodylus species in the Caribbean. The crocodiles live on Cozumel and Banco Chinchorro, where they’re threatened by human activities.

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Planet by Naomi💅

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She has grass on her whole entire body:) i wish you do the same but not in a bad way

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The most accurate view of our Planet Earth

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Did you know that our planet earth it is actually not round?

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Did you know that our planet earth it is actually not round?

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By Naomi💅

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Explore enterprising journalism about forests, environmental crime, oceans,wildlife and climate

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Explore enterprising journalism about forests, environmental crime, oceans,wildlife and climate

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Conservation news on new species

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Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and development.

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The Dire Wolf Returns After 13,000 Years | The De-Extinction Story | Bedtime story for kids

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The Dire Wolf Returns After 13,000 Years | The De-Extinction Story | Bedtime story for kids

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Note Written: 2/12/2026 8:03 PM

Hi! I'm Ernesto! I'm in fifth grade. How did I find this? Well, my teacher told everyone to open Padlet on their computers to post a prayer, and when I opened the homepage, I saw a folder called "Newspaper Club," and I remembered EVERYTHING from the past, but before going in, I had to write the sentence, so I did, and well, it went well. A few days later, I remembered the Padlet, so I went into it and saw ALL the posts. I thought it had been deleted, but it was still there. I wanted to write something, and this whole message is what I wanted to write. Thanks for reading this.