50th  EARTH DAY ~ 2020

WHO ~ YOU!
WHEN ~ Wednesday, April 22nd
WHY? ~ To protect our home, planet earth from climate change
The 1st Earth Day was April 22, 1970, implemented by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson and activist John McConnell  to raise awareness about our job to protect the planet and to celebrate our home.
  • Earth Day was a unified response to an environment in crisis — oil spills, smog, rivers so polluted they literally caught fire.  On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans — 10% of the U.S. population at the time — took to the streets, college campuses and hundreds of cities to protest environmental ignorance and demand a new way forward for our planet.  The first Earth Day is credited with launching the modern environmental movement, and is now recognizes as the planet’s largest civic event. https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2020/
RESULT OF THE FIRST EARTH DAY
  • The first Earth Day in 1970 launched a wave of action, including the passage of landmark environmental laws in the United States.
  • The Clean Air Act
  • The Clean Water Act
  • Endangered Species Act
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
  • Many countries soon adopted similar laws.  Earth Day continues to hold major international significance:
  • In 2016, the United Nations chose Earth Day as the day when the historic Paris Agreement on climate change was signed into force. https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2020/
EARTHDAY BASICS FOR KIDS
  1. Ten Tips to Reduce Your Plastic Use
  2. ​Save the Earth - Nat Geo Kids 
  3. Plastic Pollution - Nat Geo Kids
  4.  Kids VS. Plastic ​ - Nat Geo Kids
  5. Get to know the birds - Audubon
  6.  Kids World Travel Guide  ​Nat Geo
  7. THE HOAX to trick people to care about the environment  - right or wrong?
GOOD FAMILY HABITS
  1. Walk and bike more
  2. Say not to straws and unnecessary plastic
  3. Turn off water when you brush your teeth
  4. Take shorter showers
  5. Reuse shopping bags and plastic containers
  6. Turn off lights
  7. Energy vampires - unplug chargers and devices you are not using 
  8. Buy food from farmer markets
  9. Plant a tree
GARDENS, TREES, BEES & BUTTERFLIES
  1. Endangered species - HELP IN MY BACKYARD
  2. Plant Milkweed for Monarchs​ *  Monarchs at Sunset​
  3.  Plant these flowers To save the bumblebees
  4. Plants for Pollinators
  5. The interactive yard
  6. Native plants on  NJ Highways
RETHINK 
  1. Recycle by Number
  2. ​​Eco friendly 4th of July
  3. WWF Palm Oil  *  How Palm oil hurts the planet
  4. Foodprints for the Future
  5. EAT YOUR VEGGIES - Food Hacks
​SAVE OCEANS 
  1. Surfrider Foundation Campaigns to keep beaches  & waterways clean
  2. Ocean Garbage Problem - 1 minute overview
  3. OCEAN GARBAGE PATCH - Where are they located? How did it happen?
  4. Boyan Slat - Plastic collection machine for the ocean * TED talk 2017
  5. Strawless Ocean 
  6. Garbage Patch 2017
  7. Ocean cleanup
  8. Explain Ocean Currents - MOBY Ducks * 28,800 Bath Toys * Ocean Currents *   Map the world's oceans​
REDUCE PLASTIC
  1.  Life of a plastic water bottle
  2. How long does it take for trash to decompose?
  3. HS girls>  - Break down plastics 
  4.  Mike Biddle - His company has the solution for plastic
  5. Trash to graphene
CITIZEN SCIENTISTS across our planet -
BE CURIOUS and DESIGN some solutions
  1. Learn about Environmentalists and Conservationists 
  2. END SINGLE USE  - PASS Plastic Pollution Bills:  S.2776 /A. 4330 End single use * Did not pass this year  Write Persuasive essays to our congressmen and women​
  3. Shrubs can solve climate change
  4. Bring Back the Ice Age
  5. Madagascar Villages saved their trees​​
  6. Capture Fog for drinking water in Peru
  7. Water from the thin air 
  8. Endangered species Coalition - help them
  9. Chemical Recycling Could be the Answer
  10. How 2Recycle - a better way
  11. Lithium Battery Recycling
  12. Redesign a New Air Conditioner​
  13. Dryer balls vs. dryer sheets
APPS & Calculators to Help Us​
  1. Air Quality with an app
  2. ENERGY CALCULATOR
  3. YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT
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OPS IDEAS to think about
  1. A Walk for the Planet - like torch run - Friday for the Future 
  2. SCHOOL LUNCH - Change pizza boxes to block oil so they can be recycled
  3. LUNCH ROOM - How can we eliminate plastic? 
  4. ​SCHOOL LUNCH - serve plant based meals
  5. VIDEO INTERVIEW  - Ms. Bozios & Kevin to see what the school is doing & how WE can help
  6. OPS - recycle, energy conservation (automatic light sensor) solar panels 
  7. Recycle paper in the classroom - BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW
  8. Recycle sharpie markers
  9. Plant a tree or a garden for food or for butterflies​​
  10. Ask Mayor to designate 1 night throughout the town without lights/ devices for 2 hours
  11. ​Ask Mayor to Ban plastic bags like Paramus and Ridgewood
  12. COMPOST OR Worm composting - 2000 worms eat  1 pound of waste a day
EARTHDAY 2020 WEBSITE
WELCOME  FROM COUSTEAU EARTH DAY CHALLENGE2020  ​
  1. THEME: CLIMATE ACTION -  Earthday.org
    UN Climate Action Summit 2019
  2. EARTHDAY CITIZEN SCIENTISTS - research questions​
  3. DIET and ENVIRONMENT
  4. GREEN CITIES 
  5. ACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE​
  6. TAKE ACTION NOW​
  7. EARTH DAY NETWORK - OVERVIEW
  8. FRIDAYS FOR THE FUTURE ​
  9. Let's do something - Teens for jeans & shower songs
CLASSROOM IDEAS
  1. WORKSHEETS kidskonnect.com/holidays-seasons/earth-day/- Kidsconnect
  2. Teacher Toolkit​
Tree https://healthy-zone.ro/save-the-trees%f0%9f%8c%b3/?fbclid=IwAR0-ex50ezZMeWCUwRqD-GSmZKcq4XsrTT5upUs0mhui4nPp-OdytQF0uTk
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