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...

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Wow, this is the power of working together to love and protect our home!...

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...

Walk barefoot on green grass! Wade in a stream! Hug a tree! Every single day - Celebrate Planet Earth! #celebrateplanetearth

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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....

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:...

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...

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...

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...