How to celebrate Earth Day ?
Realise you’ve forgotten / run out of time / prioritising moderating controlled assessments?
Here are the kinds of things to do when you find yourself in these kind of situations:
- A starter activity which you can differentiate to each of your classes during the day e.g play the trailer to the inconvenient truth and use a think pair share exercise after or be controversial and show students some propaganda from climate change deniers and do the same (would work best if you have recently studied global warming)
- Start the lesson with – why is today important? Get students in groups to feedback what they think it is (you’ll get some funny answers and hopefully 1 correct one!) use this as an opportunity for a snowball discussion – RESOURCE FREE!
- Do you have more time? See this website http://www.educationworld.com/holidays/archives/earthday.shtml
- Do something positive – grow some plants, make bird feeders, do a recycling survey of your school
- Give each student in your class a different endangered species (see here http://www.iucnredlist.org) and get them to research why it is in trouble – make a display of this work
- Use no paper in any lessons today or insist not one line of paper is not written on or that the most students can use is 5 lines (will teach them to be consise!)
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