Friday, April 22, 2022

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.


  • 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.

Hero Wars

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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Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Education : Best of 2021 : Semester #2





credits: Education International


"Education International stands in solidarity with the teachers, students, and people of Ukraine and calls on the international community to stop the bloodshed and do their utmost to avoid a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Europe."

Education International 

Since the first news on television and stories of the war flooded the social media feeds about the war in Europe students crowded around teachers to ask them about it. At home, parents had the same questions and help their kids . 


"In a conflict that has been called the world’s “first TikTok war,” children and teenagers have had access to a mass of information that is often unverified and troubling, and may trigger anxieties."


There was some anxiety mixed into the questions, and they were using adult terminology they didn’t fully understand, but it was a hot topic for all our students.





A  kindergarten destroyed in Stanitsa Luhanska, Ukraine
credits: Lynsey Addario for The New York Times


Hundreds of schools have been destroyed during the war in Ukraine. Anxiety and fear are common reactions to the events in Ukraine, but students also want more knowledge and understanding, especially as the situation worsens.


I remembered September 11. Students came to school and entered in the classroom after lunch. They saw in the news the terrific images direct on television.


"It was a school day like every other day. Lunch time. Some teachers appeared at school before the beginning of the classes and told us to watch the news on the television. We stopped our lunch  and went to Teachers' room."


War is dreadful, and the images of Ukraine’s bombardments are so cruel. After two years of pandemic, it’s important to keep in mind the social and emotional wellbeing of students while talking and explaining lessons from Ukraine.


“It’s a difficult one, isn’t it?” said a teacher in her elementary school classroom “My instinct would be to protect you,” she reasoned.






credits: Andrew Testa for New Yok Times

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Some European children are worried that the war in Ukraine could spread to their own countries.


"As Europeans have grappled with the shock of facing a war on their doorstep and a frenzied news cycle, many teachers have had little time to process what was happening — they had to provide answers, and fast."


The job of teachers is to help students understand and process the news at an age-appropriate level while giving them opportunities to dig more deeply into the events, make connections to the history of Europe.


I'm sure all the teachers and parents are doing their best.  


Looking back the roundup 2021 I've come up with what's been the best posts of #semester2 of my blog The Digital Teacher G-Souto. The selection is based on page views but also based on pedagogical relevance of the most-read posts.


Here are the Best of semester #2

























via TIF News

"Shine bright like a diamond. 

You're a shooting star I see"

My special choice of the #2nd semester 2021? Bright Holiday Season, Shine Bright... Hillcrest Primary School : Sorrow.

It broke my heart! What started as a joyful day of celebration ended with the entire Tasmanian community stunned & heartbroken.




credits: Twitter/NickMcCallum7




The deaths of six children after a jumping castle was lifted into the air from strong winds at a school end-of-year celebration as condolences flowed into the grieving  small coastal city.

The sixth student has died last 19 December, after Hillcrest Primary School's end of year celebration event.


Holiday season was there. Christmas season is children's big dream. 


Hoping to have inspire you in your lessons all over the last year.


Teachers are teaching with passion in such difficult moments. Guiding your students the best you can helping them to adapt to a different world and prepare to a new the future. Give them hope, joy, help them not to be so anxious with this terrible time.


Your mission from the heart!


G-Souto

05.04.2022
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Saturday, April 2, 2022

International Children's Book Day : "Stories are wings that help your soar every day."


 


International Children's Book Day

illustration: Julie Flett

https://www.ibby.org/


Organised by IBBY (The International Board on Books for Young People), different National sponsors are chosen each year to represent Children’s Book Day internationally.

IBBY Canada is the sponsor for International Children's Book Day 2022. 




https://bookcentre.ca/


  • The theme for International Children’s Book Day 2022 is: 

Stories are wings that help you soar every day,

Written by celebrated author Richard Van Camp. This idea captures the power of children’s books to expand horizons, ignite the imagination and build understanding. 

It is featured on a poster IBBY Canada has produced, in collaboration with Van Camp and illustrator Julie Flett, for IBBY sections around the world to use to promote books and reading.



Richard Van Camp, a Tłıc̨hǫ writer from Fort Smith, NWT and the award-winning author of 26 books, as well as the acclaimed Julie Flett. 



https://www.julieflett.com/

Flett is a Cree-Métis author and illustrator who has been honoured with the Governor General’s Award, the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence, and the American Indian Library Association Award.

International Children's Book Day is designed to promote a love of reading in young people and emphasize the importance of books.





  • Theme 2022:

"Stories are wings that help you soar every day."

Richard Van Camp

Stories are wings that help you soar every day


Reading is freedom. Reading is breath.

Reading lets you see our world in a new way and it invites you into worlds you never want to leave.

Reading allows your spirit to dream.

They say books are friends for life and I agree.

The perfect universe of you only grows when you read.

Stories are wings that help you soar every day so find the books that speak to your spirit, to your heart, to your mind.

Stories are medicine. They heal. They comfort. They inspire. They teach.

Bless the storytellers and the readers and listeners. Bless books. They are medicine for a better, brighter world.

Mahsi cho. Thank you very much.

Written by Richard Van Camp




Education:

Taking part in International Children’s Book Day are synonymous with the benefits of reading as a whole. Here some of them:

  • Brain exercise - reading engages and exercises the brain, helping it to better make neural connections.
  • Vocabulary improvement - the amount of terminology that a child uses and possesses can increase with regular reading.
  • Empathy and imagination - reading opens children up to new horizons, helping them think outside the box and engage with the outside world in ways they had not done previously.
  • Morale improvement - it should not be forgotten that reading is fun! Taking part in it will boost a child’s morale and uplift their mood.





credits: Getty Images


  • Activities:

In reality, all teachers and parents need to celebrate the day with a good old-fashioned story. 

  • You could introduce different folktales from all over the world, marveling at the differences and similarities among them. 

  • You could schedule storytelling activities based on beloved children's books. Maybe there's a class favourite you could even dramatise. 

And, for older children, you could hold reading and creative writing workshops. You could even study the life of author and poet, Hans Christian Andersen on this day - talk about his work, choose a favourite and enjoy the story.



credits: unknown
via Pinterest

There is no better opportunity to discuss literacy, reading or a specific book with your children!

Hundreds of parents, grandparents or teachers shared their memories. Some mentioned books they were taught in school, while many others said they discovered their first beloved book at home or at the local library.

"Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch." 

Hans Christian Andersen

G-Souto

02.04.2022

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