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Earth Day Science
12-28-00Talk to local businesses that sell small trees. See if you can get a donation or discount. Plant together and discuss the trees role in the environment in making fresh air, and even land erosion.
4-15-00Air Pollution materials needed: milk cartons, Vaseline Cut out different shapes out of the plastic milk cartons - butterflies, birds, flowers, etc. have children rub Vaseline on cutout. Punch hole in and tie yarn on end. Take outside and hang on tree or fence - observe how dirty it gets. Talk about what causes air pollution.
4-15-00Water Pollution Materials needed: old black marker, two glasses of water, two stalks of celery take tip out of black marker - place into one of the glasses of water. Place a stalk of celery in each glass. Observe.
4-15-00Mining Rocks Materials needed: chocolate chip cookies, blunt plastic needles, or toothpicks Children dig out the "rocks" (chocolate chips) with their tools.
Date: 3-6-00Three weeks before Earth Day my class and I discuss what is bio-degradable and what is not. We choose several items to bury in the playground. On Earth Day we dig them up and see the changes (or not) the items went through.
Date: 2-25-00To teach young ones about pollution, I have each child bring in a piece of recyclable garbage. We sit around a pretend pond (a large painted blue sheet of butcher paper) that is filled with paper fish. I tell a story about how the fish live in the pond surrounded by the beautiful woods. As people visit the area for picnics, they begin to throw their trash into the water. I have the children do this, one at a time. As more trash goes in, the fish of course have to come out. Soon the pond is full of garbage and no fish. Now I ask the children to help clean up the pond by removing their garbage and placing it into appropriate recycling containers. These I have made ahead of time by taping commonly recycled items (newspaper, glass bottle, plastic container) to the outside of a paper bag. We feel really good when the pond is clean and the fish can come back to swim there.
Date: 2-9-00Let each child plant flower seeds in a cup with potting soil, and watch how mother nature works. Keep by window for sun light.
2-17-00Take children on a study trip to a recycling plant to learn more about the importance of recycling. This will also give them a chance to see the process by which it is done.
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