Need ideas for an activity? Check out our new flyer! (1.4MB PDF - may take a while to download). Below are more project ideas and links to web sites that can further fuel your imagination.
- Establish an outdoor classroom
- Start a community garden at your school and donate a portion of the harvest to local food banks
- Make regular environmental announcements through the PA system
- Write letters to the editor and city councilors on a local issue
- Put on a 10 minute environmental play for a school assembly
- Develop a Code of Environmental Ethics or make up an Environmental Pledge for your school or group
Need more ideas and information in this category? Check out these links…
- Ferguson Foundation – School Action Projects – Ideas & Resources
- Environment Canada - “Tips for making where you live one of Canada's Healthy Neighbourhoods”
- A 3 R’s fashion show
- Create EcoKids t-shirts by reusing old ones
- Litterless lunches
- Boomerang lunches – any food not eaten or garbage created goes back home with you
- Make and decorate reuseable grocery bags – sell them at a community fair to raise money for a worthy cause
- Undertake a waste audit of your school
- Create and perform a skit on how to use school recycling containers
- Organize a clothing recycling charity drive
- Hold a used book sale
- Take a field trip to the local landfill or recycling station
Need more ideas and information in this category? Check out these links…
- EcoKids’ Homework Help Waste Section
- Waste Reduction in Schools
- Waste Reduction Week in Canada
- Start a Compost Program (1MB PDF)
- Build bird feeders and do research on migratory birds
- Transform part of the school ground into a butterfly garden
- Earthworm composting
- Farming for wildlife – plant food plots to improve food resources for local wildlife
- Put together an informational slide show of local the wildlife and present it at school assembly
Need more ideas and information in this category? Check out these links…
- EcoKids’ Whale Activity section
- Wildlife Projects
- Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS)
- National Wildlife Federation Habitat Projects
- Implement a “Turn it off” program where students, teachers and maintenance staff are encouraged to turn off lights, computers and other electronic equipment when not in use (e.g. after school)
- Implement regular “Walk to School” days at your school
- Learn more about alternative, non-polluting sources of energy (e.g. wind, solar, geothermal, tides)
- Hold an “Anti-Idling” campaign at your school or in your community
Need more ideas and information in this category? Check out these links…
- EcoKids’ “Energy E-Pak” (7MB zipped PDF - please note that this will take about 10 - 15 seconds to completely download)
- National Energy Education Development
- U.S. Department of Energy – Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
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