Week of April 19, 2021 | TK & Kindergarten
Celebrating Earth Week | Natural Resources
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The Earth Book, by Todd Parr
Students learn simple ways to take care of the planet.
Video The Earth Book, read by author Todd Parr
Video Paired with the animated Think Earth which shows the impact humans have on the environment and how to minimize it for a healthier planet. Define and discuss natural resources: paper, metal, glass, oil. From the Think Earth Foundation.
Coloring sheets
Composting... Life in the Slow Lane!
Clean Storm Drains = Healthy Oceans!
Students learn simple ways to take care of the planet.
Video The Earth Book, read by author Todd Parr
Video Paired with the animated Think Earth which shows the impact humans have on the environment and how to minimize it for a healthier planet. Define and discuss natural resources: paper, metal, glass, oil. From the Think Earth Foundation.
Coloring sheets
Composting... Life in the Slow Lane!
Clean Storm Drains = Healthy Oceans!
Week of April 19, 2020 | First Grade | Celebrating Earth Week
The Five Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Rot, and Refuse
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Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years, by Stacy McAnulty
A simple story that joyfully introduces readers to key moments in the planet's life, from its formation over four billion years ago to the present and ends on a reflective note to encourage sharing, playing nice, and cleaning up.
Video Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years read by author Stacy McAnulty.
Video Paired with the animated Recycle Rex. Rex and friends learn about recycling firsthand when the field where they play is in jeopardy of being turned into a landfill. Define and discuss the Six Rs and how excessive packaging contributes to waste.
Coloring sheets
Composting... Life in the Slow Lane!
Clean Storm Drains = Healthy Oceans!
A simple story that joyfully introduces readers to key moments in the planet's life, from its formation over four billion years ago to the present and ends on a reflective note to encourage sharing, playing nice, and cleaning up.
Video Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years read by author Stacy McAnulty.
Video Paired with the animated Recycle Rex. Rex and friends learn about recycling firsthand when the field where they play is in jeopardy of being turned into a landfill. Define and discuss the Six Rs and how excessive packaging contributes to waste.
Coloring sheets
Composting... Life in the Slow Lane!
Clean Storm Drains = Healthy Oceans!
Week of April 19, 2021 | Second Grade
Celebrating Earth Week | Where Does Trash Go?
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Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon! by Pat Cummings
When Harvey cleans his room by stuffing everything under the rug he learns that though out of sight may be out of mind, it is not good enough when it comes to finding a place for his things. Discuss over-consumption and how landfills are filling to capacity.
Video Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon! presented by mrspierson99.
Video clip Toys All Gone
Coloring sheets
Composting... Life in the Slow Lane!
Clean Storm Drains = Healthy Oceans!
When Harvey cleans his room by stuffing everything under the rug he learns that though out of sight may be out of mind, it is not good enough when it comes to finding a place for his things. Discuss over-consumption and how landfills are filling to capacity.
Video Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon! presented by mrspierson99.
Video clip Toys All Gone
Coloring sheets
Composting... Life in the Slow Lane!
Clean Storm Drains = Healthy Oceans!
Week of April 19, 2021 |Third Grade
Celebrating Earth Week | Wetlands and Resources
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Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth, by Oliver Jeffers
An uplifting, sweetly humorous observation about the importance of kindness, tolerance, and sharing.
Video Here We Are presented by MaiStoryBook. A paper doll chain craft is offered at the end.
Video curriculum connection Ballona Wetlands field trip. Opening with a visit to a wetlands preserve, and invoking "7th generation" wisdom, Common Ground, the Water, Earth and Air We Share imparts the message of conservation and responsibility for our shared natural resources and respect for the environment. The video is unavailable to share via distance learning. Please click here for a partial reading of the book.
Coloring sheets
Composting... Life in the Slow Lane!
Clean Storm Drains = Healthy Oceans!
An uplifting, sweetly humorous observation about the importance of kindness, tolerance, and sharing.
Video Here We Are presented by MaiStoryBook. A paper doll chain craft is offered at the end.
Video curriculum connection Ballona Wetlands field trip. Opening with a visit to a wetlands preserve, and invoking "7th generation" wisdom, Common Ground, the Water, Earth and Air We Share imparts the message of conservation and responsibility for our shared natural resources and respect for the environment. The video is unavailable to share via distance learning. Please click here for a partial reading of the book.
Coloring sheets
Composting... Life in the Slow Lane!
Clean Storm Drains = Healthy Oceans!
Week of April 19, 2021 | Fourth Grade
Celebrating Earth Week | Toxic Waste Disposal
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Someday a Tree, by Eve Bunting
A young girl, her parents, and their neighbors try to save an oak tree that has been poisoned by illegal hazardous waste dumping.
Video Someday a Tree, presented by Jeff Eller.
Video Big Yellow Taxi performed by Joni Mitchell
Coloring sheets
Composting... Life in the Slow Lane!
Clean Storm Drains = Healthy Oceans!
A young girl, her parents, and their neighbors try to save an oak tree that has been poisoned by illegal hazardous waste dumping.
Video Someday a Tree, presented by Jeff Eller.
Video Big Yellow Taxi performed by Joni Mitchell
Coloring sheets
Composting... Life in the Slow Lane!
Clean Storm Drains = Healthy Oceans!
Week of April 19, 2021 | Fifth Grade
Celebrating Earth Week | Speaking Up & Taking Action for the Earth
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Earth Day is an annual observance, held on April 22, to increase awareness of environmental issues. Millions of people worldwide gather to clean up litter, to protest threats to the environment, and to celebrate progress in reducing pollution. In 1969, U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson suggested that a day of environmental education be held on college campuses. The following year, the lawyer and environmentalist Denis Hayes (then a recent graduate of Stanford University) led hundreds of students in organizing the observance of Earth Day on April 22, 1970. About 20 million people participated in this celebration. The event helped to alert people to the dangers of pollution and fostered a new environmental movement. Also in 1970, Congress created the Environmental Protection Agency to set and enforce pollution standards, and passed the Clean Air Act which limits the amount of air pollution that cars, utilities, and industries could release. Other environmental laws soon followed. (Hayes, Denis. "Earth Day." World Book Student. World Book, 2016. Web. 18 Apr. 2016.)
The effort continues with Grades of Green, a grassroots organization that teaches kids about environmental stewardship that got its start at Grand View Elementary School in 2009.
Website History of Earth Day
Love Your World, by Dawn Sirett
Remember the promises you made when you were younger about taking care of the Earth? Simple text and photographs offer suggestions on things children can do to help the environment, such as grow garden, recycle, and reuse materials.
Video Love Your World presented by Erin Schneider.
The World's Poorest President Speaks Out, by Jose Mujica, President of Uruguay (2010-2015)
In 2012, the United Nations brought governments, international institutions, and major groups together to agree on a range of measures that would bring about sustainable and fair use of resources. When it came time for the president of Uruguay to speak, Jose Mujica presented the problem of sustainability and climate change differently from previous speakers. Mujica posited that the real problem is not climate change but "how we have come to live our lives" in a vicious cycle "where we sell things to make money, which we use to buy whatever we want, and then buy some more." He challenged listeners to consider whether "we were born to pursue economic growth and progress [or rather] to live in such a way as to find happiness on this planet."
Video The World's Poorest President (aired on Kenyan Citizen TV, 2013)
Coloring sheets
Composting... Life in the Slow Lane!
Clean Storm Drains = Healthy Oceans!
The effort continues with Grades of Green, a grassroots organization that teaches kids about environmental stewardship that got its start at Grand View Elementary School in 2009.
Website History of Earth Day
Love Your World, by Dawn Sirett
Remember the promises you made when you were younger about taking care of the Earth? Simple text and photographs offer suggestions on things children can do to help the environment, such as grow garden, recycle, and reuse materials.
Video Love Your World presented by Erin Schneider.
The World's Poorest President Speaks Out, by Jose Mujica, President of Uruguay (2010-2015)
In 2012, the United Nations brought governments, international institutions, and major groups together to agree on a range of measures that would bring about sustainable and fair use of resources. When it came time for the president of Uruguay to speak, Jose Mujica presented the problem of sustainability and climate change differently from previous speakers. Mujica posited that the real problem is not climate change but "how we have come to live our lives" in a vicious cycle "where we sell things to make money, which we use to buy whatever we want, and then buy some more." He challenged listeners to consider whether "we were born to pursue economic growth and progress [or rather] to live in such a way as to find happiness on this planet."
Video The World's Poorest President (aired on Kenyan Citizen TV, 2013)
Coloring sheets
Composting... Life in the Slow Lane!
Clean Storm Drains = Healthy Oceans!
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