Emily Henderson
Happy Earth Week to all of the #EarthEdu community,
With millions of students out of school due to COVID-19, educators are rising to the challenge of teaching remotely at an unprecedented scale, parents are putting in extra time to support their kids with productive learning sessions, and we are all looking for ways to remain connected to our communities and shared home, Earth!
Google Earth is a wonderful resource to experience new places and adventures while staying safe at home. In fact, Google’s Keyword just posted my blog on four easy activities to get up and running with Google Earth that are fantastic for all ages. In honor of the 50th Earth Day (let's be honest, #EarthEveryday!), here are a few other resources that I am excited to share and hope try out in the coming weeks:
World’s Largest Lesson Plan (WLLP): WLLP created a simple lesson Celebrate Earth Day with Climate Conversations that asks family members to talk about the environmental changes they’ve noticed happening in their communities and work together to create a positive climate action. No tech required, but you can use Google Earth or Google Maps to explore changing neighborhoods, or identify the change that you would like to see in your own community.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), TED-Ed, the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and over 130 collaborators and individual contributors, have launched “Earth School” a free, high-quality educational portal to help students, parents and teachers around the world who are currently at home to explore the science and beauty of planet Earth.
The Student Conservation Organization is America’s largest youth conservation organization. Recognizing some of the challenges of social distancing during Earth Week, they created a set of online conservation activities that will connect you to the planet and to each other. You can help conserve by creating pollinator habitats, planting a tree, reducing your use, and building a garden! They even created their own Earth Project highlighting different conservation efforts around the US.
I hope that you find these resources engaging, educational, and bring you a little more connection to planet Earth.
Join the conversation and share your ideas with the community.
#EarthEdu | #GoogleEarth | #EarthStories | #EarthEveryday
