Schools : Earth Day : Invest in our Planet ! Resources

Earth Day

https://www.today.com/

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

 

Socrates

Earth Day, held each year on April 22, is a day for everyone to appreciate our planet and take better care of it. It's also a great day to get outside and appreciate the spectacular natural resources Earth provides us, like beaches, forests, waterfalls, deserts and everything in between.

Earth Day has grown into the world’s biggest civic event, celebrated by a billion people in more than 190 countries. 

credits. Twinkl

Theme 2022:

"Invest in our Planet #InvestinourPlanet!"

This is the moment to change it all — the business climate, the political climate, and how we take action on climate. Now is the time for the unstoppable courage to preserve and protect our health, our families, and our livelihoods.

Because a green future is a prosperous future.

Google Doodle Earth Day 2022

https://www.google.com/doodles/

Google Doodle Earth Day 2022

https://www.google.com/doodles/

Google Doodle:

Today’s annual Earth Day Doodle addresses one of the most pressing topics of our time: climate change. 

Using real time-lapse imagery from Google Earth Timelapse and other sources, the Doodle shows the impact of climate change across four different locales around our planet. 

Acting now and together to live more sustainably is necessary to avoid the worst effects of climate change. 

Ask your students to stay tuned throughout the day to view these scenes, each remaining on the homepage for several hours at a time.

For Earth Day 2022, we need to act (boldly), innovate (broadly), and implement (equitably). It’s going to take all of us. All in. Businesses, governments, and citizens — everyone accounted for, and everyone accountable. A partnership for the planet.

And while there is still time to solve the climate crisis, time to choose BOTH a prosperous and sustainable future, and time to restore nature and build a healthy planet for our children and their children, time is short.

• Did you know?

The planet is losing 4.7 million hectares of forests every year – an area larger than Denmark.

A healthy ecosystem helps to protect us from these diseases. Biological diversity makes it difficult for pathogens to spread rapidly.

It is estimated that around one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction.

Education:

This Earth Day, take the opportunity to educate those around you about the importance of taking care of our planet — even in little ways like recycling, buying reusable items and using less energy.

When Greta Thunberg sat outside the Swedish Parliament for three weeks in 2018, she could hardly have predicted the scale of the global movement she would spark. 

But, with young people standing to lose most from climate change, it is no longer surprising that they are on the front line of efforts to prevent environmental catastrophe.

Gen Z is providing inspiration, with 45% having stopped purchasing certain brands because of ethical or sustainability concerns. We have the power to lobby for and support businesses that take active steps to protect our environment through their practices and climate-friendly investments, and fight against those that don’t.

https://www.earthday.org/

• Resources:

Challenge kids to a nature scavenger nature

The best way to build appreciation for nature is getting out there and experiencing it. All you need for an outdoor scavenger hunt is paper, pencil and a clipboard, easy peasy. Leave room for kids to sketch their findings if they’d like. 

Here are dozen ideas for your students scavenger hunt

• Games:

Take this 5 question quiz to find the #OneGreenThing you can do for Earth Week.

https://www.today.com/news/climate/earth-day-quiz-rcna12893

Hero Wars

Play in your browse

Look for others here

On this blog you have many others resources to adapt to the levels and students you are teaching. Look for Earth Day every year on 22 April.

"We wanted to hear how students are adapting their lifestyles, working in their communities, creating new organisations, or mobilising others. 

We also asked teachers and schools to tell us how they are changing teaching, to educate young people on the latest science and support them to make a difference."

Earth Day Network

For Earth Day 2022, together, for everyone, everything, every day…

#InvestInOurPlanet

G-Souto 

22.04.2022

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July in Review & ParalympicsTokyo 2020

Opening ceremony Paralympics Tokyo 2020

 Paralympic Flame

credits: Paralympics 2020

via CNN

https://www.paralympic.org/tokyo-2020/

The world’s eyes are once again turn to Tokyo 2020 as the 2020 Paralympic Games get under way! 

The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games will feature around 4,400 athletes who will compete in 539 medal events.

The Little One-Winged Plane was the star of the Opening Ceremony 

credits: © OIS

https://www.paralympic.org/

The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games have been rescheduled to take place between 24 August and 5 September 2021.

There are thousands of athletes in this edition of the Paralympics. The exact number of athletes is 4,537. Countries that participate in the 2020 Paralympic Games usually already have previous experience from other editions and almost always send athletes to compete in the same sports from other editions.

Badminton and taekwondo make their Paralympic debut in Tokyo, and have been awarded with 14 and 6 medal events respectively.

The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic medals 

credits: Getty Images

The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games are underway with 22 sports competitions to enjoy. For these athletes, participating in this major sporting event is a dream but also there’s no doubt they want to win as many medals as possible. 

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has confirmed the six athletes who will represent the Refugee Paralympic Team (RPT) at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. The athletes, one woman and five men will compete in Para Athletics, Para Swimming, Para Canoe and Taekwondo.

Women's 100M Breaststrokes SB13

@Paralympics

Education:

Paralympics Tokyo 2020 is a wonderful subject to include into school lessons. Values, athletes excellence, resilience on overcoming disabilities through high competition sports. 

Teachers invite your students to follow Paralympics Summer Tokyo 2020 for sure! And students are following national and international favorite athletes on social media or Paralympics 2020 official website.

Germany's Markus Rehm jumping for glory as he takes his third long jump Paralympic gold in the National Olympic Stadium.

 

Ⓒ Naomi Baker/Getty Images

https://www.paralympic.org/news/

Time to stop this wonderful introduction. Let's begin the rundown of the most popular posts in July.

We began the month with Sir Ludwig Guttmann, founder of the Paralympic movement. Wow! Just in time.

Stoke Mandeville Games/Olympics for Disable

credits: unknown

via BBC Mundo

Here are the most popular posts of July:

Professor Sir Ludwig Guttmann, founder of the Paralympic movement !

Beatrix Potter : Let's talk about children's books & nature ! Resources

Climate change : Deadly flooding in Europe !

We are all excited! Someity, the Paralympic mascot is showing that just like the amazing athletes who compete at the Paralympic Games, nothing is impossible.

Good luck to all and let the games continue! Bravo to all the courageous athletes! You are all winners!  

G-Souto

31.08.2021

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Education : SOS Global Warming & Climate Change : World Humanitarian Day !

credits: photo ©Sadek Ahmed

https://www.un.org/

"The Human Race", an illustration depicting human figures running while consumed by shades of red (global warming) and shades of blue (tsunami as a climate change phenomenon). UN

19 August, is the World Humanitarian Day. World Humanitarian Day is a global day to celebrate humanity and the spirit of people helping people.

On 19 August 2003, a bomb attack on the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, killed 22 humanitarian aid workers, including the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. Five years later, the General Assembly adopted a resolution designating 19 August as World Humanitarian Day (WHD).

Goodwill Ambassador UN Edward Norton

@UN 

Theme: #HumanRace 2021 

A global challenge for climate action in solidarity with the people who need it most.

The climate emergency is wreaking havoc across the world at a scale that people on the front lines and in the humanitarian community cannot manage. Time is already running out for global countries and the world’s most vulnerable people — those who have contributed least to the global climate emergency yet are hit the hardest — and millions of others that are already losing their homes, their livelihoods, and their lives.

Haiti earthquake 2021

credits: AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn

via Insider

Must look to Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world: the earthquake that occurred on the same system of faults as the one that devastated the capital, Port-au-Prince, in January 2010. And now the storm weather. 800,000 people have been affected by the earthquake, and that about 400,000 people require some form of humanitarian assistance in the three affected departments.

Wildfire in Turkey

credits: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

via The Guardian

Wildfires in California

credits: CNN

Wildfire in Southern France 

credits: © AFP, handout photo

via France24

In California, Turkey, Greece, France, Spain, even in my country Southern of Portugal wildfires destroyed forests, houses, farms, animals and kill some people, for example in Turkey. 

Portugal

credits:  Filipe Farinha/EPA

Firefighters, Canadair, drones and local people are helping everywhere to save people, animals, and agriculture.

Young activists from Portugal have filed the first climate change case at the European court of human rights in Strasbourg, demanding 33 countries make more ambitious emissions cuts to safeguard their future physical and mental wellbeing.

Some weeks ago deadly flows in Northern Europe, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and some other countries.

https://www.un.org/

Climate change 2021:

Everyone is invited to join #TheHumanRace, which is the global challenge for climate action in solidarity with people who need it the most; and to put the needs of climate-vulnerable people front and centre at the UN climate summit (COP26).

With most climate campaigns focused on slowing climate change and securing the planet’s future, World Humanitarian Day 2021, will highlight the immediate consequences of the climate emergency for the world’s people and ensure that our voices are heard, and our needs top the agenda at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in November.

credits: UNICEF/UN0302772

• Education:

"We are the last generation that can end climate change. We can and we will."

Youth For Climate Action, UNICEF

Far from being passive victims, young people all over the world have begun to fight back on a scale never seen before. Take Greta Thunberg. In 2018, the 15-year-old from Sweden sparked a global movement of school-age students demanding greater action from governments to fight climate change. Now millions are marching to demonstrate their support.

Whether through education, technology, science or law, young people as Portuguese young environmentalists did, far and wide are tapping into their skills to speak up for climate action.

It's urgent to include Climate Action into school and college curricula to alert students about all these catastrophes to earth and to their and our lives.

Make question to young, listen their voices and ideas, discuss what it's going on around the world and why so much catastrophes are happening.

credits: UNICEF/UN0364343/Gil

You might think that we are too young to know about the risks and realities of climate change. But we see its effects in our daily lives.

Gertrude, 16, Tanzania

They have conscious ideas about this tragedy. They are "wired" all day. They saw, read, discuss and want to be a part of Act Now generation.

We have an environmentalist generation among our students. They are involved in campaigns, they fight bad behaviors against Earth planet. 

Join the #HumanRace

https://www.strava.com/

Join the #HumanRace

100 minutes, $100 billion

for climate action.

Run, ride, swim, walk or do any activity of your choice for a cumulative 100 minutes between August 16 and August 31 in solidarity with vulnerable people and to tell world leaders that they expect developed countries to deliver on their decade-old pledge of $100 billion annually for climate mitigation and adaptation in developing countries. If you don’t wish to take part physically, you can Add Your Voice.

Every minute of activity counts towards carrying our message to world leaders at COP26.

• Apps: Join on Strava!

Don’t have Strava? It’s free, available on iPhone and Android, and can be used by itself or with all major fitness-tracking devices.

Because in the race against the climate crisis, we can't leave anyone behind.

“The climate emergency is a race we are losing, but it is a race we can win.”

António Guterres, United Nations Secretary General

Take care! Be safe! Ware a mask!

G-Souto

19.08.2021

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May in Review & Climate change : Deadly flooding in Europe !

Germany floods

credits: REUTERS

Germany floods

credits: EPA

Western European countries including Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands had received up to two months’ rain in two days from 14 to 15 July, on ground that was “already near saturation”.

Photos taken at the scene of some of the worst water surges and landslides show huge, gaping holes where earth and buildings had stood until mid-week, after media reports pointed to well over 190 confirmed fatalities in Germany and Belgium on Friday morning, with an unknown number still missing across vast areas.

Inondations en Belgique

via Premier Ministre de Belgique

@alexanderdecroo

Journée de deuil en Belgique

@GeorgesGilkinet

La Belgique a observé hier le 20 juillet une journée de deuil national, à la suite des intempéries et inondations dévastatrices qui ont frappé le pays la semaine dernière et qui ont coûté la vie à 31 personnes jusqu’à présent, selon le dernier bilan officiel. 

On July 20, Belgium observed a National Day of Mourning for those who lost their lives or were affected by the recent severe weather conditions in our country.

credits: Weibo Images

And this week in China! Twelve people have died after record-breaking rainfall flooded underground railway tunnels in China, leaving passengers trapped in rising waters.

Climate change : Act Now!

“We need to step up climate action, we need to step up the level of ambition; we’re not doing nearly enough to stay within the targets of the Paris Agreement(on Climate Change) and keep temperatures below two degrees Celsius, even 1.5C, by the end of this century.”

António Guterres, UN secretary-general

https://www.un.org/

Education:

Every one of us can help limit global warming and take care of our planet. By changing our habits and making choices that have less harmful effects on the environment, we can tackle the climate emergency and build a more sustainable world.

Our lifestyles have a profound impact on our planet. Our choices matter. Behavioral changes, like replacing car trips with public transport, wasting less food, or foregoing a long-haul flight, can reduce our carbon footprint. 

Get started with these ten simple actions. 

Invite your students to download the action guide. And for more actions, to dowload the app

Oops! I forgot to write about the posts of May. Let's do it ! The world continues to be affected by severe pandemic restrictions. Only UK opened. 

In so many countries schools are always closed or reopen and reclosed schools. Millions of students don't have access to in-person lessons. 

In Portugal, in-person classes with hybrid teaching finished lin June. Only Secondary schools and Universities continue for the exams.

Here are the most popular posts of May:

Science & Music at school ? ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet & Coldplay music in microgravity ! 

House of Dragon prequel ? For sure ! Here we are again ! 

Science : Super Blood Moon & Total Lunar Eclipse ? Wow ! Let's enjoy the cosmic show ! 

Schools ! Culture Matters : Let's talk about Museums ! 

There are strict measures to deal with the new wave coronavirus across European countries and other countries all around the world. Not in UK (?)

Many involve the reintroduction of restrictions that had been eased after initial lockdowns. 

Be safe! Take care!

G-Souto

22.07.2021

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