Ensino : Earth Day 2011

Google doodle Earth Day 2011

https://doodles.google/doodle/earth-day-2011/

This slide share was created by my students and me to celebrate Earth Day 2008 and it is published on Earth Day Network March, 8, 2008. 

The students were participating at Earth Day for the 1st time.  Unfortunaly, the Eart Day Network for schools 2011 has been shut down and we lost our slide share published there (no copy). What a waste of time from my students and myself.*

We wrote to Earth Day to ask for a link or a copy of our slide share but no answer...

Google doodle Earth Day 2011

https://doodles.google/doodle/earth-day-2011/

So I changed it and published the Google doodle Earth Day 2011. It's a lovely interactive doodle that starting in Asia, the doodle walks users through Africa, Antarctica, Australia, and America.

This year's Earth Day doodle started with a desire to depict different environments around the world. 

When we hover over various parts of the doodle, we may catch a salmon swimming up stream, parrots darting through the sky, a frog leaping across the grass, a bear having a snack, a koala performing gymnastics, a sleepy lion, butterflies rustling trees, a penguin sliding down an iceberg, and a sneezing baby panda.

Google surpreende-nos mais uma vez! Hoje Google presenteia todos os ambientalistas com um doodle interactivo encantador! Nele, podemos admirar todos os elementos fundamentais da Natureza: água, árvores, pássaros, animais, peixes, borboletas, pinguins, coelhos, e animais em vias de extinção.

• Google Doodle:

Google doodle on Earth Day 2011, today April 22, inspires every environment lover. 

The doodle is designed by taking the background image of all environmental issues and the nature. Water, trees, birds, animals, fishes, butterflies, penguins, rabbits, and what not, the doodle displays all the endangered species of animals along with the natural sources. 

Earth Day is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the natural environment of the Earth.

Não percam! Vão à página principal de Google e admirem este doodle interactivo ! 

Google junta-se assim a Earth Day 2011.

E já sabem! Um acto verde nosso pode fazer toda a diferença.

"A Billion Acts of Green!"

Happy Earth Day 2011

G-Souto

22.04.21011

update, 22.04.2025

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Earth Day 2011: a story about the Forest

http://www.frankejames.com

Forests provide the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat.  Forests also provide us with the wood and paper products we use every day.

Listen Franke James, author and artist in a creative personal story for FSC Canada on the video below

Who cares about the Forest? from Franke James on Vimeo.

A lovely story about the forests isn'it? Franke is the author of Bothered By My Green Conscience which merges science, art and storytelling to inspire people to take action and “do the hardest thing first” for the planet.

So, let's continue to inspire our students for Earth Day 2011 

Education:

• Display the video in the classroom (primary and elementary school)

• Let your students use iPad or smartphone to read 'Who cares about the Forest' as a visual essay here 

• Students are invited to a storytelling about Earth and some visual essays to complete their story.

• Educators can submit students' projects on Your Act Green

• Students can visit Franke James' website (edutators tutoring) and leave a comment to the author.

I will be back with another act of green in the school

G-Souto

19.04.2011

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Credits: video and visual essay Franke James

References:


FSC Canada
http://www.fsccanada.org

Franke James, Who cares about the Forest
http://www.frankejames.com

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Green Actions for Earth Day 2011

http://socialmi.com/

"From Dublin to Palo Alto via Milan, Colombia, and London, with world records and airships, in English, Spanish, Hebrew and Chinese, Facebook got a clear message this week, delivered in many ways – it's time the world’s largest social networking site connected its 600 million users to renewable energy, not dirty, dangerous coal and nuclear."

Greenpeace

The message was also spreading in the main square of Milan, Italy with the unfurling of a huge Facebook: Go Green banner. 

Greenpeace volunteers in Italy have been gathering support from Facebook users across Italy, check out the fun video of their activities.

Earth Day 2011 is April 22. It's only a few days away. Actions like this one can be important to support this year Earth Day's theme: A Billion Acts of Green!

Well, in a different way, schools can organize an Earth Day event.

Earth Day 2011

http://www.earthday.org/

"What can you do? Earth Day events are limited only by your imagination."

There are millions of things you can do locally to have fun and foster positive change in your school. 

Read about a pedagogical project for Earth Day 2008 

Speaking about green acts and volunteering, Portuguese students (up to 18) are called to volunteering to help the forests since 2005 during holiday season.

The program aims to educate young people to Environmental problems. And each year there are more and more students want to be volunteers.

Voluntariado Jovem

Florestas 2011

https://aprendizagensnanet.blogspot.com/

2011 is the International Youth Year, International Year of Forests and European Year of Volunteering. More than 5.000 Portuguese young people are involved in this program that began this year on April 1st and goes until November 30, 2011.

As you can see, it is a very interesting program "to teach by doing" about Nature in a civic action. Students learn and help saving the Forests.  

For more information about the program, please visit the green blog, a project by my students: Geração Verde : Voluntariado Jovem Florestas 2011.

"Sir David Attenborough has voiced his concern about children's declining knowledge of the natural world"

The Telegraph

Do you share the same opinion? Do you think that your students decline knowledge of tha natural world? 

I just can say that students are very curious to learn about natural world and they are engaging themselves in green actions, more and more each year!

G-Souto

18.04.2011

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References:

Earth Day 2011

http://act.earthday.org/

Greenpeace

http://www.greenpeace.org