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Ideas for Environmental School Projects

 

Here are some fun and educational project ideas:

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  • Plan an Earth Day Celebration and invite guest speakers.
  • Do the Earth Day Coffee Jacket Project.
  • Develop an environmental day at school.
  • Do a zero waste lunch day or week.
  • Conserve resources day by reducing the use of water and energy. For example, turn off the lights when students are out of room or when it is a sunny day, carry a water bottle, etc...
  • Organize a bike or walk to school that day with the help of parents.
  • Organize an anti-litter campaign for your community.
  • Start an environmental club at your school.
  • Feed a Tree. Each classroom or science class creates a bucket or bag of compost. Trees and plants can be planted with a special ceremony. Each classroom contributes a bucket of soil/compost.
  • Growing worms:
    • Materials: Plastic tub or bucket with lid, drill, bedding: shredded newpaper, cardboard, leaves, dried grass cuttings, dead plants, manure or peat moss; sand and soil, shovel, red worms called red wigglers; food waste: fruits and vegetables, coffee grounds, tea leaved, bread, eggshells.
    • 1 square foot equals 1 pound of food wastes.
    • Drill holes every 2 inches at top and bottom of container for air and water exchange.
    • Add worms and food. Worms need to be kept in a warm place.
  • Plant Bulbs: Each student plants a bulb around the school grounds. Get bulbs donated. Each classroom or grade should have special section around the school. Add signs for recognition.
  • Speak out. Write your legislator asking your representatives to support environmental legislation. Tell companies to put their products in containers and bottles that can be recycled.
  • Do a can-can. Raise money and recycle aluminum by holding a can drive. Fundraisers with recycling include blue grocery bags, ink cartridges, cell phones and paper.
  • Let your fingers do the recycling. Save trees by participating in Abitibi’s paper retriever recycling program and remind students to recycle their phone books over the summer.
  • Beautify your school. Maintain an adopt-a-spot for litter pickup or plantings around school and the neighborhood.
  • Entertain others. Present an environmental play or puppet show to students in other grades.
  • Go on a field trip to a nature center, landfill, recycling center, wastewater treatment plant, etc..
  • Monitor a stream near your school.
  • Inventory the trees trees in your school yard and other plant more with the Plant Pride Not Litter program.
  • Hang buy recycled signs on items made from recycled materials or products that are recyclable in your local grocery store.
  • Conduct a waste audit at your school. Start a school recycling program.
  • Build blue bird, bat or butterfly boxes.
  • Raise native fish and release in area ponds or rivers. Raise native plants and sell them.
  • Create a rain garden at your school.
  • Raise money and donate it to an environmental cause.
  • Decorate a cloth shopping bag for your parents to take with them whenever they go to the grocery store.
  • Attend EARTHfest and other environmental festivals around the region. Link to earth day coalition.

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