What kids did for Earth Day

STUDENTS IN TANZANIA AFRICA

22 April, was Earth Day.
School students played a huge part in Earth Day 2011, with over 60,000 schools receiving Earth Day materials in the Green Schools initiative.
Some of the activities included:

• tree plantings and trash clean-ups by 1,000 students in Tanzania, Africa
  
  


• sixth-grade Iraqi mine survivors planting trees




• Detroit school kids building a plastic bottle boat




• The Planet Earth in Our Hands global project promoted student voices in recognition of what we all can do to use the earth's resources responsibly.


• students at Patriarch Diodoros, “The 1st School” formed an ‘Earth Day Volunteers’ group and are ‘greening’ their school inside and out.
  
  

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KNN Enviro Award - Weetangera Primary School Canberra Australia

The inaugural Enviro Award goes to Weetangera School Canberra.

Clean Up Australia sent "A big thank you to students at Weetangera School, Canberra, ACT for their generous donation! The students raised the money by selling home made cup cakes at the school fete." 2010

This is not all that this school is doing to help our beautiful environment. The school is promoting environmental awareness and establishing green practices within the whole school.

Some of what they are doing includes:

• the sustainable schools program - being an “energy wise”school
• adopting “water wise” strategies
• participating in Clean Up Australia Day
• created ecological outside teaching area
• participating in “green” initiatives such as “Tree Day”, “Green voucher” for a water tank
• recycling
• collecting food scraps for composting
• promoting a litter free environment
• student environmental schemes are recognised through certificates and Newsletter

CONGRATULATIONS to everyone at WEETANGERA SCHOOL

Weetangera School currently has 413 students enrolled from preschool to Year 6. The fully integrated Autism specific Support Unit, is currently fully enrolled with 6 students.

Animals at school

Ballina High School in northern NSW, Australia is one of many schools that keep animals at school. Their Marine Discovery Centre has fish and yabbies which are allocated to students who then record their growth.
The program uses a “hands on” and “feet in” approach so kids can learn about the marine environment and good coastal management.