Imagine One Million Sunflowers!
Imagine One Million Sunflowers growing across the country, feeding butterflies, bees & birds, giving delight to everyone who sees them! Learn more at CelebratePlanetEarth.org #onemillionsunflowers #celebrateplanetearth
One Million Sunflowers
Join the community of families who are planting ONE MILLION SUNFLOWERS & celebrating the EARTH this spring! Please help us SPREAD THE WORD. It's a great way to be a part of the 50th ANNIVERSARY of EARTH DAY!You can celebrate AT HOME. Sunflowers...
Teaching Butterflies Online!
We received a GREAT IDEA from Lange School in Dayton, Ohio! Take your butterfly lessons online! Teachers are taking the live caterpillars home & teaching their butterfly lesson plans online. They are using photographs and video to share the transformation of the...
Ethiopia Planted 350 MILLION Tree Saplings in One Day
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ethiopia-plants-350-million-tree-saplings-in-one-day/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
Over 110 Million Trees Planted by 2.5 Million Volunteers in India
Wow, this is the power of working together to love and protect our home!...
Want to Help Save the Bees? Start Planting Sunflowers
According to House Beautiful - "Planting bee-friendly flowers is definitely an easy way to help keep our buzzing friends alive, and the sunflower is the perfect option for a summertime plant. They're rich in nectar, and are the perfect color to attract bees—the flying...
Celebrate Planet Earth!
Walk barefoot on green grass! Wade in a stream! Hug a tree! Every single day - Celebrate Planet Earth! #celebrateplanetearth
Take the Planet Earth Pledge
It's so important to join together and take the Planet Earth Pledge as a class, a club or a family. It helps remind us of what it means to love and protect the Earth. And here is a PDF poster so you can hang it on a bulletin board or wall. No job is too bigNo action...
Mass Migration of Painted Lady Butterflies in California
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/17/us/migrating-painted-lady-butterflies.html What a wonderful article from the Sunday New York Times - 3/17/19! If the painted ladies are migrating into warm Southern California in record numbers than they will probably start arriving...
Butterfly Care
Taking care of painted lady caterpillars is easy! Every package of caterpillars comes with a Life Cycle of the Painted Lady Butterfly and on the back of the poster are care instructions to help you and your students. Also, here is an 8.5x11 PDF of Painted Lady...
How to Help Birds in Winter!
It is cold and snowy in most of the US! Time to bundle up and keep warm. Children might wonder what they can do to help wild animals like birds survive out in the cold. It's a wonderful way to show how you love the Earth and all its creatures. How to Help Birds in...
13-Yr Old Indigenous Girl Nominated for Global Peace Prize
Autumn Peltier is promoting the protection of sacred waters across the world. She is taking action to protect the Earth, our home. Learn more about Autumn at: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/canadian-nominee-childrens-peace-prize/...
We Grow Kids Who Love & Protect the Earth!
We are so proud of our mission and goals at Celebrate Planet Earth! Our aim is for millions of children to celebrate & protect the Earth every year through actions large & small. And our vision is to grow the next generation of heartfelt conservationists....
How to Grow an Avocado
Avocados are in season right now. I've seen stacks of them at the grocery stores recently. Growing an avocado from a pit is very easy and makes a wonderful science experiment to share with your students. Here's a link to instructions:...
Emerson Elementary: Butterfly Contest Winners 2018
Wow, check out this great video from Emerson Elementary in Maywood, Illinois! West 40 ISC#2 School District sponsored a Butterfly Video Contest at all of their elementary schools. The PreK and 2nd grade classes at Emerson Elementary won a pizza party for all of the...
Get Ready for Spring with Butterfly Science!
Every spring, the #1 favorite activity of our teachers is observing the transformation of live caterpillars into fabulous butterflies. Students are mesmerized! They love to learn about insect anatomy, pollination and, of course, metamorphosis, and they can see it with...
How Can Your Classroom Love & Protect the Earth?
1 Take the Planet Earth Pledge Make a promise to yourself, your friends & family that you’ll learn ways to love & protect the Earth, our home. No job is too big No action too small For the care of the Earth Is the task of us all! 2 Take Action! Teach your...