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Earth Day Livestream - April 22nd - Nature in the Race to Zero
EARTHDAY.ORG, together with our partners, was proud to present the Earth Day Climate Action Summit. We need to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century to keep the global temperature below 1,5°C. Learn about some key solutions that will help us deliver the greenhouse gas reductions needed by 2030 to meet the Paris Agreement.
Environment in Time of War

Kathleen Rogers, President of EARTHDAY.ORG

Iryna Stavchuk, Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine for European Integration, Ukraine

Carl Bruch, Director of International Programs, the Environmental Law Institute (ELI)

Stefan Smith, Senior Programme Manager, Disasters & Conflicts, UNEP

Michael Bothe, Professor Emeritus of Public Law, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main

José R. Allen, International Environmental Lawyer, the Environmental Law Institute (ELI)

Regenerative Agriculture's Role in Restoring Our Earth

John Piotti, President & CEO, American Farmland Trust

L. Hunter Lovins, President, Natural Capitalism Solutions

Anthony Myint, Executive Director & Co-founder, Zero Foodprint

Elizabeth Pearce, CEO, SymSoil Inc

Merlin Yockstick, Founder, Blue Planet Science Group & RegenIOWA

All TOGETHER now!

This is the moment to change it all - the business climate, the political climate, and how we take action on climate. Now is the time for the unstoppable courage to preserve and protect our health, our families , our livelihoods... together, we must Invest In Our Planet.

Because a green future is a prosperous future.

We need to act (boldly), innovate (broadly), and implement (equitably). It's going to take all of us. All in. Businesses, governments, and citizens - everyone accounted for, and everyone accountable. A partnership for the planet.

And while there is still time to solve the climate crisis, time to choose BOTH a prosperous and sustainable future, and time to restore nature and build a healthy planet for our children and their children, time is short.

The Earth Day 2022 Theme is Invest In Our Planet. What Will You Do? Scroll down to find information on Earth Day events, activities, and what individuals and organizations can do to make a difference.

For Earth Day 2022, together, for everyone, everything, every day...

#InvestInOurPlanet

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Are you part of an organization that is planning something for the next Earth Day? Partner with us today and work TOGETHER tosupport the movement. Then, use our toolkit to help plan your event!

INVEST IN OUR PLANET

AND BUILD A PROSPEROUS AND EQUITABLE FUTURE
"There's a way to do it better - find it." - Thomas Edison
Unless businesses act now, climate change will ever more deeply damage economies, increase scarcity, drain profits and job prospects, and impact us all.

Yet we already know that private sector innovation (with public support) accelerates the kind of rapid change we need, like nothing else. And it pays. Studies show a direct correlation between sustainable business practices, share prices, and business performance. Companies who develop strong Environment Social Governance (ESG) standards have better profitability, stronger financials, happier employees, and more resilient stock performance.

Smart companies are discovering that it is no longer a choice between going green and growing long-term profits - sustainability is the path to prosperity. So for both humanitarian and business reasons, it is imperative that companies of all sizes take action and embrace the benefits of a green economy. Tell business leaders to get on board with a sustainable future or get out of the way.

INVEST IN OUR PLANET

AND BUILD HEALTHY CITIES, COUNTRIES, AND ECONOMIES

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new." - Socrates

When it comes to climate change, money talks. Through regulations, incentives, and public/private partnerships, governments hold the keys to transform and build the green economy. Similar to the industrial and information revolutions, governments must incentivize their citizens, businesses, and institutions to build a resilient future. Ultimately, governments will empower green business practices as not only the ethical option but also the lucrative one.

For example, in the U.S., clean energy jobs provide earnings +25% above the national median wage, and outpace fossil fuel extraction/generation jobs by three-to-one, employing more Americans than middle or elementary school teachers, bankers, farmers, or real estate agents. And yet, we still incentivize technology that is damaging our future growth.Globally, the fossil fuel industry benefits from subsidies of $11 million every single minute and over $5.9 trillion annually (and rising).

Imagine the impact of shifting to policies and partnerships that build a renewable economy. Tell your government leaders to launch the sustainability revolution TODAY.

INVEST IN OUR PLANET

IT'S THE ONLY HOME WE HAVE. WE NEED EVERYONE, WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME
"Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world." - Dolores Huerta
As individuals, we have the simple yet effective power to make our voices heard through our choices, our civic actions, and our personal interactions. What each of us does, and how we do it, has a huge ripple effect on our ecosystems, and on the pace of corporate and government action.

Gen Z is providing inspiration, with 45% having stopped purchasing certain brands because of ethical or sustainability concerns. We have the power to lobby for and support businesses that take active steps to protect our environment through their practices and climate-friendly investments, and fight against those that don't.

At a rally, a cleanup, with your vote, or your wallet, be heard however you are able. For all of us - today and for our future - let's INVEST IN OUR PLANET!

A YEAR-ROUND EFFORT

Today's the day to TAKE ACTION not just because you care about the natural world, but because we all live on it. Every one of us needs a healthy Earth to support our jobs, livelihoods, health & survival, and happiness. A healthy planet is not an option - it is a necessity.

Growing out of the first Earth Day in 1970, our mission is to diversify, educate, and activate the environmental movement worldwide, all year long.

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WE MUST act (boldly), innovate (broadly), AND Implement (equitably).

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Official Poster Earth Day 2022

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Get Earth Day 2022 info from the official Earth Day site. This year's theme: Invest in Our Planet™. Find events and learn what you can do to make a difference.

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Should kids play individually? Should the whole Advisory play as a team?

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EARTH DAY ACTIVITIES TO INSPIRE YOUR STUDENTS AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE

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EARTH DAY ACTIVITIES TO INSPIRE YOUR STUDENTS AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE

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Here's a quick (3-minute) introduction to how Earth Day started and the impact it's had:

Earth Day 2022

Earth Day will be held April 22, 2022 and the theme is Invest In Our Planet -because a green future is a prosperous future.

Just in time to support Earth Day this year, PLT has released a new, cutting-edge resource for elementary and middle school educators, Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide. Learn about the guide's 50 field-tested, hands-on activities and get a copy directly from PLT's Shop or by attending a local PLT professional development workshop conducted by PLT's 50-state network of 75 coordinators and 1,000 facilitators across the country.

Another way teachers and parents can observe Earth Day is to simply take children on a nature walk, whether that's in your backyard, at a local park, on a nearby forest trail, or on school grounds, depending on what's accessible in your area at this time. Doing a nature walk is not only about celebrating Earth Day. It's also an opportunity for learning experiences in a variety of subjects such as science, geography, math, and art. Make your nature walk educational and fun at the same time with these 12 Nature Walk Activities for Earth Day (or Any Day!)

Also, be sure to bookmark our Earth Day News Article full of fun ideas and activities to help you celebrate.

Even though Earth Day has a rich history, many people associate it with recycling. You'll probably find a lot of Earth Day activities for the classroom that focus on just that. This can be a great starting point, especially because it's an action students, schools, and families can do right away. If you want to incorporate activities on recycling in your Earth Day lesson plan, be sure to check out these reduce, reuse, recycle lesson plan ideas for every subject.

Young students can, and do, make a big difference. As an educator, you have the opportunity to spark a passion in students that will drive them to do their part to take care of the Earth. Here are a few different kinds of activities you could add to your lesson plans to inspire your students this Earth Day:

Make a pledge and a plan to take action

Writing down a commitment and making a plan are two actions that increase the likelihood that someone will follow through. So if you want those Earth Day lessons to stick, this is an easy activity to do with students of any age. This is a great way to incorporate an art project with a writing prompt.

Here are a few examples:

Integrate art projects

Art projects are fun way to add a hands-on activity to a lesson about Earth Day. Creating art can also help students feel connected to environmental topics, even if the issues you're studying are happening far away from home. It's also a great way to help them imagine the world they want to live in.

Here are a few examples of art projects for Earth Day:

Also, be sure to check out these art project ideas using recycled materials and Earth Day art activities.

Make signs for school and at home

Sometimes we just need a little reminder to help us change our habits. Have students think about what they can do at school and at home to help the environment and how they can encourage others to change their habits.

Make a video or presentation urging others to take action

Students can make a bigger impact if they influence others to do their part to protect the environment. Putting together a video or presentation also helps them internalize the material - they need to understand it before they can explain it to others. Presentations can be given in the classroom or even to the whole school. Eventually, they may be able to present their lessons and research at a local conference, like these students from Two Rivers Magnet Middle School in East Hartford, Conn.

Plant a tree

The Earth Day Network has a goal of planting 7.8 billion trees by 2020 - one tree for every person alive. By planting trees, you're taking a tangible action with your students and you're taking part in this bigger goal. Don't forget to check out these tree planting tips before you get started.

Engage students in a pollution experiment

Teaching about pollution is an essential part of Earth Day because it helps students understand the consequences of not protecting the Earth. It can be much easier to prevent pollution than to remedy it later. Students can experience the effects of pollution on a small scale in the classroom.

An activity for younger students:

See more types of pollution experiments you can do in your classroom and check out PLT's "Pollution Search" activity.

Pick up trash around your school

Trash clean-ups are another hands-on activity you don't even have to leave the school grounds to do. To make a bigger impact, have students write down what kinds of trash they pick up and where. After analyzing the data together, you can find patterns and explore solutions so you can stop the trash at the source.

In fact, there's a new app that can help you do just that. Check out Litterati, the app that makes it fun to pick up littler and helps prevent litter:

Host a drive to collect e-waste

E-waste is a growing problem in the U.S. and around the world. E-waste represents more than 70% of toxic waste in landfills. So it's probably not surprising that only 12.5% of e-waste is recycled.

This is an opportunity for your students to help raise awareness about this problem within our school and community. Students can research a nearby recycling facility and organize a drive to collect e-waste to help combat this problem in your community.

Show them examples of other students making a real difference

It's important for students to see examples of young environmentalists so they know they don't need to wait until they're older to make a difference. These inspiring examples of young environmentalists is a great place to start, and there are many more young people doing great work. Learning about the work these young people are doing can give your students new ideas for how to protect the environment. It can open the door of possibilities for how to think about finding solutions to problems they can help solve.

Earth Day isn't just on April 22. It's every day. How will you celebrate Earth Day and help students make a difference year-round?

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Earth Day activities to inspire your students and make a difference - Project Learning Tree

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Here's a quick (3-minute) introduction to how Earth Day started and the impact it's had: Earth Day will be held April 22, 2022 and the theme is Invest In Our Planet -because a green future is a prosperous future.

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Earth Day Tips: 50 Easy Ways to Help the Planet Every Day

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Discover 50 Earth Day tips with simple actions you can take every day to protect the planet. Together, small acts add up to big impact!

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Can each student make something (like a leaf) to write their EcoPledge - something they will do to improve the Earth?
We can collect them all to make Patton's Tree - to symbolize how each of our pledges will have a bigger impact together.

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Teachers can lead students through the outdoor path - we could make a map and adjust the route to make it longer too.

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Use chalk to write Earth-positive messages

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Use chalk to write Earth-positive messages

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Advisory teams have to .  . .???  find things? complete challenges? How complex do we want to make something like this?

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Ask Mrs. Schultz if she needs help making Plarn for the mats for the homeless

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Ask Mrs. Schultz if she needs help making Plarn for the mats for the homeless

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Advisories can see how much they can make.

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Video about climate change/ environmental impacts and what we can do?

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Video about climate change/ environmental impacts and what we can do?

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There has to be something out there that would be short and interesting.

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Paint Kindness/Earth Day rocks to hide around the school

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Paint Kindness/Earth Day rocks to hide around the school

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Design a Social Media post about Earth Day/ climate change/ environmental impacts

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Design a Social Media post about Earth Day/ climate change/ environmental impacts

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Students can send them to our Instagram Account or they can be shared with Mr. Walsh for the Patton Website

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Collect recyclable materials and challenge Advisories to create a product that reuses the materials.
Could be like bottle flowers.

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How To Make Pretty Plastic Bottle Flowers - DIY Crafts Tutorial - Guidecentral

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We could use the baseball and softball field and possibly even the field behind it. We could also use the turf field or the jv softball field if not in use.

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It probably makes more sense to give advisory teachers the Kahoots (or others) rather than attempt large grade-wide Kahoots.

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We could give coloring pages as an option for indoor advisory activities - if a student doesn't like games such as Kahoot and Gimkit they could do this instead.

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We know you love the Earth and want to protect it. We've got ideas for how you can help keep the planet clean, cool games, and fun facts.

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Like Becket said in the last meeting, we should just have some extra time to play outside. We really shouldn't empisize the words "Earth day" too much or students are just going to get sick of it. It's like, we should do something that makes them savor the earth without mentioning it?

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As the person above me said, keeping it simple is the best way to go. Letting people freely play on the turf, blacktops, and fields will give a lot of flexibility to everyone (including us because we won’t have to plan).

If the gyms are open, we could allocate some basketballs/other equipment for people to do the same.

Because it’s Earth Day and the emphasis should naturally be on the outdoors, I think this approach is better than having a GimKit/organizing kickball (because kickball would be chaotic)

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I was thinking we could do individual advisory scavenger hunt outdoors. We could also possibly do a "photo" scavenger hunt inside individual advisory rooms to find certain things on a list and take a photo of it.

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Each advisory could be a team and the winning advisory for each team gets a prize.

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Like a scavenger hunt earth day inspired?

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Like a scavenger hunt earth day inspired?

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Classes have to search for certain plants and fill out a list. And they try to get done first?

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I disagree with using Earth Day for things indoors, we have so many options, and if anything, we should set a rain date in case the weather doesn't permit it. The Idea of these activities isn't to take the day off, and instead we should take the time to reflect on our Carbon Footprint, and do what we can to help.

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If we could get a speaker to talk about climate change and earth day that would be awesome. Perhaps someone from the Brandywine Red Clay Alliance? This year's theme is "Invest in our Planet", so we could also try to get someone to talk about clean energy and new green technology.

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I feel like these ideas would be great and benefit our community and the ideal of a greener Earth, but a lot of students would rather be free in what they do since a lot of these activities wouldn't cultivate a lot of student interest. Rather, these activities should be held as optional for the students to do at their will rather than being forced into it. The concept of freedom mentioned in another post will help make Earth Day a positive and fun experience for all due to students being able to do what they want at will.

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we could have an advisory vs advisory capture the flag game?

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Teachers could take their students on nature walks around the campus of Patton and the high school.

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Crafts for Earth Day and hang them around school or just on one boars

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Crafts for Earth Day and hang them around school or just on one boars

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I think we've gotten off-topic and gone from earth day to just going out or doing a Kahoot. In 8th Grade FCS, we go outside on a moderately-sized hike. Maybe scattering teachers and staff along the route to supervise as needed, while students pick up trash outside with friends would be a good idea? This gives students something to look forward to, and whoever collects the most trash in say, a small bag would win a prize (similar to the Patton gift baskets last year) as well as offering a small reward for the runner(s) up. These prizes would be kept eco-friendly, and throughout the week we could push the overall idea of giving back to our planet through HawkTV and Social Media.

The trail is completely safe, and we CAN have all grades out at once if we use the full extent of the outdoor space around the school. With this, concerns of COVID transmission and Social Distancing can be achieved if necessary

Students would be able to walk/talk with friends and contribute to a good cause.

EDIT: I wrote this for more of a Grade-Wise activity, but advisory and the whole school is an option with how flexible the idea is. Please Consider it!!

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The Advisories could take a walk outside into the wilderness. To go with this, we can have multiple, if not all of the advisories out, which doesn't get to campus to crowded.

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We could do an Earth Day craft as a fun activity for crafty people.

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Like field day people will go to stations and each station will have different activities.
Some examples of activities are chalk drawing, relay race, kickball, challenges, free time, having a snack outside, planting something small, and cleaning up some parts outside of the school.

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we can make like a poster with a picture that has to do with trash and use recycleable CLEAN things then look at all of the advisorys art work and see who won

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An opportunity for students to calculate their family's carbon footprint and explore ways to decrease this

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Some people might not be interested in the activities we plan and would rather be outside with friends.

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An earth day poster contest and whoever is the winner gets there poster hung up on the cafeteria board

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An earth day poster contest and whoever is the winner gets there poster hung up on the cafeteria board

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This isnt really an idea but earthday.org has resources for schools planning activities if you sign up https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-schools/

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Earth Day Goes Digital

To support students, parents and teachers who are adapting to new learning situations, we have compiled a variety of engaging climate, civic and environmental education resources. Explore games, activities and lessons for all ages and get ready to join us on April 22 for a day of civic action!
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Schools around the world are hosting environmental and civic education programs to prepare their students to be engaged stewards of the environment.

In 2020, millions of educators and students will plants trees, host cleanups, participate in citizen science and advocate for climate action.

By signing up as an Earth Day School you are joining a global network of passionate teachers who are developing the next generation of environmental leaders!

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It could be outside but it would be really cool.

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whoever has the best drawing of a plat or anything to do with nature wins something