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BC Earth Day Activities

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Name / Group	School / Affiliation	Activity	Other information / description
Clarksville Elementary	Clarksville	Earth Day Fair Additionally Select classes will be reading Dr. Seuss' The Lorax We will have a bldg and community wide bottle and can drive w/ proceeds going toward their food pantry service project (Onesquethaw Food Pantry) (We'll be at Glenmont Price Chopper On Saturday)	April 16, 2010 all day Any families that would like bring in cans / bottles, or food stuffs for donation are welcome to help support this phenomenal human service project! Also check out this list of contacts / visitors to our Earth Day Fair
Elsmere Elementary	Elsmere	Sunday, 18th Elsmere garden & grounds clean up Monday - Litterless Lunch Juice Bag Terracycling Tuesday - 3R's challenge - families send in used silverware, cloth napkins, reusable plastic cups, extra pencils / pens, used glue sticks (for recycling), cell phones, digital cameras, inkjet cartridges	Thursday - Family Game Night and game swap Friday - Earth Week Eco-Fair Students wear green Eco Fair presenters Strawberry planting Students plant and keep flowers Earth week assembly
Mrs. Dolen	BCMS 6th grade Science	students will use www.ecofoot.org to calculate their ecological footprint	www.ecofoot.org
Mrs. Berry & Mrs. Leone	BCMS Library	LMC Earth Day activities	http://www.earthday.net/?skip=1 http://www.earthday.net/?skip=1
Hamgrael Grade 5s	Hamagrael Elementary	ordered 30 (free) seedlings through the NYSDEC - plant 1 for ea classroom	http://www.dec.ny.gov/press/12594.html DEC's program link
Clarksville Grade 1s	Clarksville Elementary	1st Graders will be collecting bottles & cans to recycle - proceeds to benefit Onesquethaw food pantry
Art Parents & Partners	BCSD art boosters	March 25 - Recycled Art at the public library (1-3pm)	K-5 students will create a recycled material garden
Art Parents & Partners	BCSD art boosters	March 26 - Glenmont Learning Fair program	same as above - pre-register with Glenmont PTA
BCMS Grade 7s (Mrs. Wood)	BCMS	Make plantable greeting cards out of scraps of used paper & seeds	COOOOL!
Go Paperless for 1 day	BCSD Community Challenge	Take the Paperless Earth Day Challenge	http://teachpaperless.blogspot.com/2010/02/paperless-classroom-earth-day-pledge.html
Wildlife Biology (Mr. Klugman)	BCHS	Wildlife students & Contemporary Issues students will have displays up in the cafe atrium	all week
Contemporary Issues (Ms. McEwen	BCHS	Contemporary Issues students will have displays up in the cafe atrium	all week
Screen Free Week	TV Turn Off week Bethlehem Public Library	Turn off the screens for all unnecessary activities	Monday - Friday Board Games 3-8:30 Monday - Singalong Tuesday - Pajama-Rama Thursday - Book Buddies "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
NASA Climate Kids Website	Resource	Terms / context aimed at students in grades 4 to 6	http://climate.nasa.gov/kids
Hamagrael Elementary	Hamagrael	Earth Week Activities One-Bag Challenge (reduce waste to only one bag per day per class & per family) Earth Day Posters Display Lobby Displays Recycled Arts & Crafts Projects Week-long emphasis on the R's	Daily Themes Monday - Poster Day Tuesday - The 3R's Pledge Wednesday - Waste - Free Lunch Day Thursday - Earth Day Assembly Friday - 3R's Pledge Drawing Pledges are made by students to focus on the 3R's See more here
EPA Waste-Free Lunch	Environmental Projection Agency	Waste-Free Lunch	See more here
Pine Hollow Arboretum	<1 mile from Slingerlands Elementary	Open Saturdays and Sundays for Tours	http://pinehollowarboretum.blogspot.com/
Slingerlands Elementary	Slingerlands Elementary	Students will note all the activities they've done to support Earth Day and will have chances to have their accomplishments noted over the announcements Gently Used Book Sale - What a Great Way to Support Recycling and Literacy Wear Green or Earth Friendly T's on Earth Day (April 22) School Grounds Clean Up Saturday 4/24 - all families welcome (10:00 - noon, or 1-3:00)	The Go Green Parent Committee will visit classrooms to promote various activities including: Having a paperless day Collecting students Earth Day Pledges (on recycled scrap paper of course)
BCMS	BCMS	Kicking off composting Students will be weighing and composting their food wastes for the week in similar fashion to our 5th graders Nature's Classroom experience (Who could ever forget the ORT report!)
BCHS	BCHS	Recycling is now a consistent process throughout the entire building! Our HS Garden Team is up and running. More news to come but our initial vegetable and perennial garden is being laid out in the courtyard between the administrative and guidance wings	Look for Pictures in the near future Mrs. McEwen's Contemporary Issues class and Mr. Klugman's Wildlife Biology Class will be having an Earth Week display of student projects all next week
Eagle Elementary	Eagle	Kicking off our Garden Committee this week (we'll be planning a layout for our garden) Classes will be creating bird feeders from milk cartons & milk jugs Earth Day posters and Stories made by students	Cleaning up space around Eagle and HS Writing observations of nature & Earth Day Poetry readings Performing an Earth Day Play Burying a banana peel & styrofoam cup until June 1 to see & compare decomposition Recycled picnic lunch w/ ORT reduction