Educational resource to celebrate Earth Hour

Started in 2007 in Sidney, Australia, Earth Hour is a global environmental movement organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). It takes place on the last Saturday of March each year, encouraging individuals, businesses, and governments to turn off non-essential lights for one hour (8:30 - 9:30 PM local time) as a symbolic gesture to raise awareness about climate change and energy conservation.

You can learn more or participate by visiting the official website:

https://www.earthhour.org/

This Schools Sustainability Guide, edited by the WWF gives loads of tips on how to take action for climate, nature and sustainability in your school.

Find it on:

https://www.wwf.org.uk/get-involved/schools/sustainability-guide

Ocean Odyssey Educators Guide

This guide includes 8 elementary school level lessons, inspired by topics from the IMAX film Ocean Odyssey, and many NOAA mission critical areas. Watching the film is not required to carry out any of these lessons, but may enhance students’ learning experience of the topics presented in these activities.

These lessons progress for use from younger to older grade bands, but they all contain aspects and resources which may be adapted for all grade bands. 

(Source Ocean Service NOAA)

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/ocean-odyssey/ 

#WorldEnvironmentDay Free Nature Stock

Every year, World Environment Day is observed on June 5. This day is celebrated to encourage awareness and environmental protection. Environment Day coincides with the First United Nations Conference on Human Environment. It was held between 5th to 16th June 1972 in Stockholm, Sweden

On the occasion of this day, we present in this blog post a gallery of Royalty-free CCO nature stock photos and videos about nature created by Adrian Pelletier.

https://freenaturestock.com/?ref=MagazineDuWebdesign 

For more information and resources on this celebration:

UN Website

https://www.un.org/en/observances/environment-day 

Resources: https://www.un.org/en/observances/environment-day/resources

Easy Science For Kids

EasySciencieForKids.com is a free online resource for tutors, teachers, parents and educators where young kids learn about sciencie (animals, plants, human body, Earth, technology, biographies through articles, science worksheets, downloadable activity sheets, interactive science quizzes, experiment tips and ideas, videos...)

http://easyscienceforkids.com/

National Geographic. Teaching Resources

The National Geographic Society, a nonprofit scientific and educational organization dedicated to exploring our planet, protecting wildlife and habitats, and helping assure that students in K-12 are geographically literate, offers teaching resources, units, lessons, activities, guides, and educational games for K-12 teachers.

Resources are grouped K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12 and can be filtered to streamline searches.

http://nationalgeographic.org/education/teaching-resources/

Education blog:

https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.com/

On YouTube (Young Learners)

https://www.youtube.com/user/NGLYoungLearners 

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/NatGeoEducation

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/natgeoeducation

On Google+: https://plus.google.com/+NatGeoEdOrg/about

Earth Day. Educational resources

April 22 is Earth Day, an annual event, that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's natural environment. Earth Day was first celebrated in 1970. This celebration (in more than 190 countries each year) is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network.

You can find information about the history of Earth Day on:

http://earthday.envirolink.org/history.html

A collection of educational resources for teaching about Earth Day:

Natural Education Association:

http://www.nea.org/tools/lessons/earth-day-curriculum.html

Teachervision

https://www.teachervision.com/earth-day/teacher-resources/6612.html

Free Technology for Teachers

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/04/10-educational-resources-for-earth-day.html#.VxTLlDCLSUk

ScienceNetLlinks

http://sciencenetlinks.com/collections/earth-day/