Activities
Below is a listing of all of the great Earth Hour activities at DSBN Schools.
Big Foot - Stamford Collegiate
March 27th, 2009Morning announcements mentioned "Big Foot" sightings near the cafeteria. Students were reminded about Earth Hour and asked to reduce their energy consumption at school all day and also tomorrow evening from 8:30 to 9:30. They were encouraged to continue to reduce energy consumption in their daily lives. At lunch, students were asked what they could do to reduce their ecological footprint. Appropriate answers were rewarded with a Big Foot candy. The feet were used to remind students that each action leaves a footprint, so they should make wise choices all the time.Earth Hour at JAM - James Morden Public School
March 27th, 2009We will power down at James Morden on Friday, March 27th for the final hour of our school day. Lights, computers, photocopiers and other equipment will be shut off, as well as all non-essential lights. Students and staff will then head outside to clean up the back playground.Ferndale's Earth Hour! - Ferndale Public School
Mar. 27With daily announcements to raise awareness and start the buzz, Ferndale will power down for third period on March 27th. All non-essential lights and computers will be shut off. A survey of how many students and their families participate in Earth Hour on Saturday will be conducted on Monday for use in our Junior ISP math class.You Have the Power - General Vanier Public School
March 27th 2009This is our kick-off to a series of our Earth Month & ‘Spring into Nature’ activities
Earth Hour at Home Contest – Our Student Council Green Minister will send home a challenge to all families to participate in Erath Hour Saturday [on "good-on-one-side" (GOOS) paper]. Which class can have the greatest participation?
“How Much is Enough?” – Classroom by classroom demonstrations & examination of how much energy we truly use versus how much we truly need.
“What’s Our Habit?” – A garbage audit of what we produce in a typical day. Next steps: where we go do better with composting, recycling & reuse.
Inferior Conjunction of Venus – coincidentally this happens today, so at 2nd Nutrition Break we will being demonstrating the sue of a pin-hole camera to observe the sun & maybe even see Venus during the day [clouds permitting]Conserve to Preserve - Forestview Public School
Friday, March 27, 2008.The entire school will be having a lights/ tech off period from 2:30 p.m. to 3:20 pm.
The Grade 3 students will be participating in a litterless lunch day and will be starting a GOOS (good on one side: thanks to Sean Hanna for the improved "scrap" acronym and idea) paper collection system at all printers in the school. The grade 3's will use goos for all in class activities requiring paper. the students will bring in composters for lunch products that can be composted. the compost, garbage and recycling will be weighed to compare the weight of each to determine how much garbage the class produces in one day.Earth Hour with our Tribes - Princess Elizabeth Public School
Friday, March 27th, 2009Princess Elizabeth students will be involved in Earth Hour activites all afternoon on Friday. The school is a Tribes school and the school population is divided into sixteen cross-graded Tribes. The senior students of the school will be watching a short video presentation called "The Lost Generation" in the gym which sends the message that students have the power and need to lead the change for a better world. With this inspiration, these senior students will be leading the Tribes activities for the afternoon. The activites include: Community Circle - accountable talk about what Earth Hour/Earth Day, Environmental responsibility means to PE students. Heart Healthy Energizer - Apple Tasting Activity with a focus on healthy eating. Earth Hour Poster Making - each Tribe's creations will be displayed in the school. Earth Day Activity Proposal - each Tribe will create a proposal for a school wide Earth Day activity for April 22nd, to be judged by our Tribes Committee and winners will be selected and used on Earth Day. The school will celebrate Earth Hour between 12:50 - 1:50 with lights off, computers off etc. After 1:50 we will continue to "dim-down" till the end of the day, only using the minimum amount of energy. Pictures will be taken of the Tribes "in action" and be displayed on a Tribes - Earth Hour display board in the school. As a follow-up, the school will "dim-down" for an hour every Friday for the month of April.Soaring To New Heights With Less Electricity! - Oakwood Public School
Friday, March 27,Oakwood is excited about participating in the Earth Hour. Our school registered with the National S.E.E.D.S Program in 2007 and is presently a Green status school. We are presently working towards the next level of Jade status, which we hope to achieve this year. We have a number of activities planned for Earth Hour, in order to help contribute to the conservation of energy and taking care of our planet.
We plan to watch the Earth Hour video to bring awareness of our daily responsibility of our environment.
The following activities are planned:
1. The Green Club has made posters on photocopy
cartridge-paper wrappers to promote Earth Hour Day.
2. Earth HOURS...all classes plan to turn off their lights,
except for one bank of lights for the entire day.
3. Primary classes will participate in playground cleanup.
4. Junior classes will help clean up neighbourhood
areas.
5. Intermediate classes are cleaning and preparing
flower beds.
6. Special Needs classes are creating art sculptures for
an upcoming Spring Art Show.
7. Students will write about environmental projects that
have been completed this year and count these
towards our S.E.E.D.S initiative.
8. Turn off photocopy machine for the day.
9. Classes have 3 R's projects planned in their classes.
10 Think Green! Live Green! Students are encouraged
to wear green on Friday, March 27th.Helping to save our Earth...We only have one! - McKay Public School
March 26th, 2009Our student council has coordinated activities to promote Earth Hour. Each class representative has designed a poster for his/her classroom to help promote Earth Hour, and have also designed posters that are put up throughout the school. We have had daily morning announcements trying to raise awareness of what Earth Hour is, why we have it and what we are doing as a school. On Friday, we will be turning off all classroom lights all day and will be limiting our use of computers. Classes will be designing large posters, which we will be bringing with us as we do our community clean up around Port Colborne. Our goal is to clean up our school yard and our community and to raise awareness of Earth Hour while we are doing it. All students have also been asked to bring a litterless lunch to help reduce the amount of waste produced at break times.Earth Hour Power-Down - Oakridge Public School
March 27, 2009We will power down at Oakridge on Friday, March 27th for the final hour of our school day. Computers, photocopiers and other equipment will be shut off, as well as all non-essential lights. On Monday, March 30th, we will kick off our "Daily Dim Down" when we shut down all non-essential lighting and equipment that is not in use at 2:15 every day.Earth Hour - Prince Philip Public School (Niagara Falls)
March 27, 2009Mr. Bridges has started the hype for Earth Hour with morning announcements - challenging students, teachers, and our custodian to be aware of how much power we generate in one day, week, or month of school! Each class and all support staff has been challenged to "turn-OFF" the power between 1:45 - 2:45 pm on Friday March 27th. Grade 5W will be creating an Earth Hour Logo integrating the Prince Philip Pumas logo of our school; Grade 5M will be using the "Light Brigade" (a group of students ) who will monitor all unnecessary lighting! The teams will begin monitoring and tracking all classrooms for wasteful energy consumption (lights or computers) from Friday, straight to Earth Week! Grade 6K & 6H will be completing activites provided from Student Link Monthly suggestions and integrating these activities within core subject areas of math and language! Grade 7I & 7C will be using their creative energies with posters and slogans that promote Global Awareness and Earth Health, using the theme: "Simple Acts. Big Impacts. One Person can Make a Difference!" These will be posted around the school until Earth Week! Grade 8D will be brainstorming the 60 best actions or ideas they can pledge to that will support our living planet. Grade 8B will be spending their hour without electricity doing activities or games and socializing in ways that consume no electricity at all! No cell phones, IPods, computers, or battery users of any kind!! We will continue to make our students and staff aware of resources available for energy conservation and global awareness. We wish everyone: " 'A DARK HOUR' between 8:30 - 9:30 pm on March 28, 2009"Reducing our power consumption - Plant Department Green Team
March 27. 2009Where possible, computers and lights will be turned off during earth hour. We will also not use the photocopier during earth hour. In addition to reducing our power consumption during earth hour, we have also begun to organically recycle......paper towels, paper coffee cups, coffee grounds etc. and we invite you to use our bins! Should we win, we will donate our winnings to a new and improved bicycle rack for the Education Centre!!!!!SLHS Celebrates Earth - South Lincoln High School
Friday March 27th 2009South Lincoln High School staff and students will be celebrating the Earth by trying to reduce our carbon footprints by signing a banner to pledge to participate in Earth Hour on Saturday evening. Prizes will be awarded to students who bring a litter-less lunch in all reusable containers. The Earth Hour film will be played in the library for students over the lunch break. Period 5 will be Lights Out at SLHS as the school steps outside to clean up the school yard.Turn out the lights the party has just begun - Caistor Public School
March 27, 2009The entire staff and students at Caistor Central will be participating in an 100 minute block of teaching with their lights off. Some of the activities that the students will be completing are making awareness posters( environmental) as well creating drama skits that promote conservation. In the intermediate division, teachers will link to the math curriculum by comparing the hydro usage on Thursday, March 26 and Friday, March 27 during the same 100 minute period.Country Style Conservation - Pelham Centre Public School
March 27, 2009The intermediate students at Pelham Centre School under the direction of Grade 8 Teacher Mr. Teather, and his Brock University of Education Student Teacher, MIss Bergsma are challenging the entire school body to turn off the lights and computers for not only an hour, but for the entire instructional day! With the exception of essential systems (such as the main office computers and telephones) all members of our learning community will refrain from using various forms of electricity, thereby reducing negative impacts on the planet.
Additionally, Mr. Teather's Grade 8 class will be spreading awareness for the cause by creating informational posters to de displayed around the school. All students in the school under the guidance of Mrs. Robinson's Grade 7/8 group will apply enviromental strategies acquired during the Crossley Eco-Mentors Club sessions to clean up any litter and garbage on the schoolyard and along our adopted road, Centre Street. We already have a strong environmental committment to global issues and value the opportunity to demonstrate our beliefs through actions!SWC IS VOTING FOR EARTH - Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School
March 27thEvents will include the following:
1) all non-essential lights will be turned off during Period 2 on March 27th
2) to kick start events on March 27th, using our Internal Broadcast Video System, the entire school will be viewing the official Earth Hour video “Earth Hour 2009"
3) we have added the Earth Hour information to our outside school sign to inform our community of our involvement
4) various departments will be conducting their own curriculum based activities related to the environment
5) students will be encouraged to Vote Earth at home with their families on Saturday March 28th from 8:30 - 9:30pmConserving Energy - Pine Grove Public School
March 26, 2009We will be turning off our lights in the hallways, turning off all computers, the photocopier and turning off lights in our enclosed rooms during our last 100 minute block during the day.Prince of Wales Public School Earth Hour - Prince of Wales Public School, Thorold
March 27, 2009Teachers have agreed to not use the photocopier on this day.We will start our event at 11:10 with the turning off of all classroom lights and computers. Then, we will head over to the neighboring park for a 20 minute walk, followed by a clean up of both the park and our playground. At some point in the day the Primary grades will read The Lorax, the Junior grades will play the Environmental Rescue Board Game, and the Intermediate grades will watch the video The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard. We are also encouraging staff, parents and students to join One Million Acts of Green in an effort to become more active and aware in the environmental issues we face today.Very Little Power at Valley Way - Valley Way Public School
Friday, March 27/09 @ 11:10amFor one hour on Friday, March 27th at 11:10am the school will be:
1) Participating in a community clean-up - cleaning up the neighbourhood, school yard and local park.
2) Turning off all lights, computers and unplug electronic equipment to save on phantom power in the school.
3) Going through all grey boxes to collect "good-on-one-side" (GOOS) papers to use for scrap/photocopier.
4) Discussions/activities in classrooms explaining how to leave a minimal "footprint".
5) Checking hydro meter to determine how much power we will be saving for that one hour.
5) Educating our intermediates by watching "An Inconvenient Truth" and then writing letters to our local MP's.Earth Hour 2009 - Greendale Public School
March 27th, 2009As a result of proclaiming Greendale as a participatory school, we will perform the following actions, on Friday March 27th, to make Earth Hour 2009 a success:
1) Students and staff will wear black to symbolize the darkness created by turning out their lights, during Earth Hour, and conserving energy.
2) Encourage staff and students to bring a litterless lunch (Food and drinks are stored in reuseable containers, therefore eliminating the need to create garbage).
3) During an assembly during period 4 (12:05 - 12:55 p.m.), students and staff will watch the official Earth Hour 2009 video, and discuss ways in which their actions on Saturday March 28th, will benefit the earth.
4) Non-essential school lights will be turned off from 2:25-3:25 p.m.
5) A contest will be held, encouraging all students with their families, to submit a photo (or photos) of their Earth Hour activities. Prizes will be given for the “most creative” activities. All photos will be displayed on our Character Education - Superstars - bulletin board. (Photos to be submitted to the office by April 7th!)
6) We will advertise the event by displaying posters in the halls, sending home a parent memo, and posting the event on our outdoor school sign.
The DSBN, and Greendale school, are committed to joining the unified global movement in fighting the climate crisis. Together, we can make a difference. Turn out. Take Action."Turn Off" "Turn On" Challenge - Ridgeway Public School
March 27, 2009To fight declining enrollment in our Family of Schools, Parents are encouraged to turn out THEIR LIGHTS! (See you in 9 months & 4 years at registration)
One Hour -No Power! No lights, no computers, no phones (emergency uses only).
Eat outside with litterless lunches.
Hold classes in Outdoor Education Centre.
Car Races -simple machines made from recycled materials and powered by passing gas (balloons).
Yard & Garden Clean-Up
Watch 100 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Planet & sing "Kids for Saving the Earth Promise Song".Cherrywood Goes Lightless and Litterless - Cherrywood Acres Elementary
Friday, March 27th, 2009On Friday, Cherrywood Acres School will go lightless, shut down all computers, and refrain from using the photocopier between the hours of 11 and 12. Students and staff will also be encouraged to go litterless with their lunches, reducing waste in the process.Hop Aboard the Central Cruiser - Central Elementary School
Friday March 27thHop aboard the Central Cruiser!
Central staff is celebrating Earth Hour by hopping aboard the Central Staff Cruiser, we are car pooling to work on Friday in the Central Cruise mobile. Central staff from all over Niagara are going without their car for the day! Staff within walking distance are walking to work, others are cycling in.
Central is also pulling the plug!
We are turning off all lights, computers, smart boards are being unplugged for the afternoon. Staff will be teaching old school style, good old fashion chalk board activities. No photocopying activities permitted. Grimsby Power will track our savings and conservation of energy.
Students will be celebrating Earth Hour carrying signs and picking up garbage throughout the Grimsby Community. Also students are encouraged to pack litter less lunches on Earth Hour.Power down - Lincoln Centennial Public School
March 27, 2009As a school, we have already begun a weekly Earth Hour "lights- out" challenge. This Friday, the school will do a school-wide power down (lights, electrial equipment) challenge.Our Three Goals - Martha Cullimore Public School
Beginning March 27thWe are beginnnig a new Green Club at Martha Cullimore! We are hoping to follow the following through on the following goals:
1. Lights Out for One Hour on Friday.
2. Recycle everything we can and put it in the propper bins.
3. Boomerang Lunches to help cut down on waste.Board Game Fun Earth Hour - Prince of Wales Public School, St. Catharines
March 27, 2009For the second year in a row, Prince of Wales is joining major cities around the world in switching off it's lights and non essential electrical devices for Earth Hour. This year, we will not only be turning off our lights, but also we are having a litterless lunch. During the hour that the lights are turned off, students will be playing board games.
Students are invited to bring in a board game from home that is school and age appopriate.
Prince of Wales encourages all students to participate in Earth Hour, at home, on Saturday March 28. If students turn off on Saturday night and provide a note from their parent or gaurdian in their organizer about what they did, they will receive 1 Eco Buck to spend at our school Eco Store (Eco Store is stocked with environmental products/toys)
Participation in Earth Hour will truly be a celebration of Prince of Wales commitment to fighting climate change and global warming.School Support Services pitches in - DRRC: School Support Services
March 27, 2009- All non-essential lights turned off (Monitored by our Environmental Team)
- Taking an hour to turn off computers and lights (where possible)
-Prizes for those who bring a waste-free lunchBoomerang Lunch/Earth Hour - Welland Centennial Secondary School
March 26/27On Thursday March 26th Centennial is having its first ever Boomerang Lunch. This means that staff and students will be consciously bringing home any waste that day to dispose of in their family's recycling and organic bins. Participants are encouraged to bring reusable containers to reduce the waste that Centennial produces on a daily basis. Also, on Friday March 27th the entire school will be having its own Earth Hour during Period One. All lights will be off and staff and students are asked to reduce their use of computers and other electronics during that time.JUST ONE! - Eastdale Secondary School
March 27, 2009 to March 27, 2010.We will be building a group of people, starting with the staff and students of our school, to commit to picking up "Just One" piece of garbage every day for a year.
We will be soliciting participation through a Facebook page linked from our school's web site, and various other activities beginning with a one hour collection of "Just One" piece of garbage by each student during the hour following lunch on Friday March 27th.
Each individual that commits to doing so for one year from the date of their commitment will be rewarded with a Green Wristband with the words "Eastdale SS - Just One" to signify their commtiment to the rest of the world.
The goal is for the commitment to become "viral" getting as many people as possible throughout the community, the province, the country, and the world to make the commitment to pick up "Just One" piece of garbage each and every day for an entire year.
Can you imagine the result if everyone did so ?? !!VOTE for EARTH at EMPIRE - Empire Public School
Friday, March 27We will gather in the gym and watch the WWF Earth Hour video (3 minutes in length available on utube) to kick off our activities.
We will turn off the lights in the school from 2:30 to 3:30 to celebrate Empire Earth Hour.
Mulit graded groups from K to 8 will rotate through several activities that do not require electricity.
Outdoor fitness
Yard clean up
Buddy reading with flashlights
Mural and poster making to advertise the event to our community
Chalk advertisements on the yard and school walls
Healthy snack stationEarth Hour Assembly and Activities - Thorold Secondary School
March 27, 20091. Assembly held on an acitivty day schedule. Guest speaker will be Lee Norton - trained by former Vice Pesident Al Gore's team to deliver a Canadian, and up-to-date version of the Inconvenient Truth.
2. Period 2 (for 1 hour) all lights, and most other, non-essential electronics will be turned off. During this time the electricity consumption will be monitored, with the aid of Thorold Hydro, to determine our energy savings.
3. Each classroom has been asked to have fun activities that would raise environmental awareness and produce a product that would help educate our school community. Activities may include - 'drama without lighting', science of global warming poster, outdoor clean-up, etc.
Goal - Produce a hallway display of the work/fun had in each classroom, and perhaps post photos on our website. Any songs/skits may be presented by students at future assemblies.Expanding the Challenge! - Nelles Public School
March 24, 2009Nelles will be involved in several activities to promote Earth Hour. To make the community aware, we have added the Earth Hour Challenge to our large road sign. The grade 6 students have also created a banner which will hang in the front foyer to promote the event. The school will shut off all lights and computer equipment from 1:00-2:00 p.m. Students will also be doing Public Service Announcements during morning announcements for the entire week reminding students of ways to conserve energy. We will be promoting a litterless lunch and a walk/bike to school day. The activity we're most excited about involves spreading the word about Earth Hour around the globe. Students have found e-mail addresses for elementary schools around the world and we have sent them an e-mail challenging them to do something about Earth Hour. We have asked them to promote the event in their neighbourhood and have also asked them to reply to our e-mail, outlining the activities they took part in. We're excited about hearing what others around the world are doing to make a difference.Earth Hour(s) at Quaker Road - Quaker Road Public School
Friday, March 27, 2009The Quaker Road community have some wonderful things planned for Friday's Earth Hour(s).
Our entire school will be dedicating part of the day to cleaning up the school property as well as our surrounding neighbourhood.
We will be having a Litterless Lunch.
Our Grade 1 students will be making posters to promote Earth Hour and our Grade 4/5 students will be planting seeds.
We will be having a Theme Day where everyone will be wearing Green and Blue.
Our students will be signing a banner promising to Vote Earth.
To get our community's participation in the Saturday night Earth Hour, posters will be displayed around the school and labels will be made up and placed in their agendas reminding parents/guardians to Vote Earth.
The entire staff have challenged each other to NOT use the photocopier at all on Friday.
Lastly, we will have all lights, computers, printers, stereos etc turned off from 1:50-3:30.
We are all looking forward to Friday's events and being part of something so important!Eco Awareness - Westlane Secondary School
Mar. 24th. 2009We plan to observe a Westlane Earth Hour period 4 on Friday.
We have also challenged the school community to join the Westlane Eco Awareness facebook group and post a message on how they plan to conserve energy. We have set a goal of 500 members by Monday.Recycled Art - Oakwood Public School - Special Needs
Friday March 27, 2009Students will bring in bottles, boxes, cans, etc. from their recycleing boxes to make sculptures and castles. We hope to display our works at our Art Show in May.Recycle Soccer - Kernahan Park Secondary School
March 27, 2009Kernahan Park's Self Help and Self Care class has come up with the game -- Recycle Soccer" to celebrate Earth hour. The ball has been made out of materials from our recycle box (used paper, plastic bags and tape) and the net will be made out of recycled materials as well. The students will play soccer with these materials and the goal scoring team will pick up garbage to celebrate their goal.Powering Down and Reaching Out - Col. John Butler Public School
March 27th, 2008Col. John Butler Public School will be turning off their lights, computers, and all other electrical devices from 10:35 - 11:45 a.m.. We will be having our celebration assembly with an environmental focus outside during that time. EcoLeaders will be leading brief energy-wise workshops to the rest of the student body following the assembly.
We are also sending home information about Earth Hour home to all of our families on GOOS (good on one side) paper. The handout will provide a list of ideas for activities for families to use the following day during the global Earth Hour. Families will be encouraged to fill out their forms and return them to school. We are very optimistic that our parent community will embrace this eco-initiative, as they have been very supportive in our quest for Gold EcoSchool status.
Finally, we would like to challenge all other DSBN schools to log more Acts of Green by Earth Day on the One Million Acts of Green Website.Earth Hour Clean Up - Crystal Beach Public School
Friday, March 27, 2009 2:00-3:00pmOur whole school will participate in earth hour by turning off lights in the school building and going outside to clean up the school yard on Friday afternoon. We will do general yard clean up as well as raking and cleaning out the schools gardens.Various activities - Gracefield Public School
During the week of March 23The grade 4/5 class created informational posters about Earth Hour and displayed them around the school. Each student in the 4/5 class wrote an announcement that would be read at the beginning of each school day leading up to Earth Hour.Garbageless Lunch and Turn Off Lights - Port Weller Public School
Friday March 27Port Weller School will ask students to bring in a garbageless lunch. Food items can be in recycable or reusable containers. Teachers will assess their classes success and the winning class will receive a prize of an icecream sunday. Students must bring in their own reusable bowls and spoons to receive this award.
Secondly, classroom teachers are being asked to spend 1 classroom hour on the same Friday using as little electricity as possible. They could also consider using our new outdoor classroom at the front of our school if weather permits.
Port weller has an ongoing organics greenbin composting program. It has been calculated that if the current rate of composting continues , approximately 1200 kilograms of organic waste will be prevented from going into the landfill this school year.SMART METERING AND IN-SCHOOL DISPLAY OF ENERGY CON - Sheridan Park Public School
Tuesday, March 24th and Friday, March 27thA Googlism quoting Lord Kelvin suggests, "If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it."
At Sheridan Park, we will recognise Earth Hour by enhancing energy literacy using consumption data from our smart electricity meter in conjunction with an in-school display device as an energy conservation learning tool.
The new smart electricity meters in our schools can record electricity consumption at 15-minute intervals. Horizon Utilities has kindly agreed to provide us with a range of Sheridan Park’s consumption data from the new smart electricity meter.
On Tuesday, we simulate an Earth Hour broken into four 15-minute segments:
11:00-11:15am turn off all computers, printers, etc. The change (drop) in the 15-minute interval meter data gives a close approximation for how much electricity we use for I.T.
11:15-11:30am turn off all heating (where appropriate). The next 15-minute interval meter reading will tell us approx. how much electricity we use for heating.
11:30-11:45am unplug everything else. The change in the 15-minute reading will point to sources of “phantom” power drain we might often overlook.
11:45-12noon turn off all lights. The final 15-minute meter reading gives us a good idea how much electricity we use for lighting.
On Friday, we will have compiled and graphed our meter data for our Earth Hour simulation and will review it with our students. We also have our 5-year electricity consumption history and will also look at this data to understand seasonal and yearly patterns of energy use.
A study conducted by the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford in the U.K. found that people who use in-home display devices of their energy consumption have additional energy savings of 5-15%. We are going to put an in-SCHOOL display device in place on our LAN which constantly shows our school’s entire energy consumption and will measure or quantify what (if any) energy savings our additional conservation practices can be seen by our students from their efforts.
Our students will make a video of their learning experience with all this and enter the http://www.powerdownfortheplanet.org video contest, a sister initiative to Earth Hour of the World Wildlife Fund.
If we win, we’ll purchase two of these http://www.humandynamo.net bikes – one for Sheridan Park and one for the DSBN, so our students can learn first-hand how hard they have to physically work to generate a relatively meager amount of electricity (and we’ll get a bit of DPA done in the process).Reduce Carbon Footprint - Purchasing/Central Stores, District School Board of Niagara
March 24/09"Don't be a CO2 Sasquatch"
REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT
Definition of Carbon Footprint: The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by an individual or household, through vehicle emissions, electricity use, and fuel consumption. The bigger the footprint, the greater the contribution to global warming. Don't be a CO2 Sasquatch.
Goal: Through the use of the three R’s – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, the purchasing department would like to reduce our carbon footprint. We will grow a windowsill garden with hopes that it will provide tomatoes and peppers all year round for our families, alleviating the need to purchase tomatoes and peppers from other countries and thereby reducing CO2 emissions from the transportation of them. In planting our garden we have reused articles (for example plastic mattress pad packaging for a green house and frosting container for starting the seeds) that normally would end up in landfill. We are also practising composting in order to eliminate unnecessary garbage going to landfill. The purchasing department hopes that by composting our coffee grounds, fruit skins, paper towels etc. we will keep approximately fifty five kilograms out of landfill site per year and help create compost that in turn sustains life. The purchasing department will be using organic coffee on earth day in support of organic farmers and the goals of organic farming:
• Organic farming promotes long term sustainability of soil and water supplies
• Organic farming utilizes terracing, composting and recycling methods all which help the earth to be healthy
• Organic farming reduces the amount of pesticides and chemicals destroying our earth
• Organic methods work in unison with nature to help plants grow and pests to be controlled through biological pest control
• Organic methods protect the natural habitat of other species such as migratory birds
The purchasing department would like to invite all to our department during earth hour to enjoy a cup of fresh brewed organic coffee. (Please bring your own cup as part of our reduce, reuse, recycle theme).
In Central Stores, they are showing their support the whole day by turning down the heat, turning off the lights, having cold lunches and giving up coffee.
Bring along three suggestions that you use for reducing your carbon footprint and we will give a “tiny tom” tomato plant to the first 30 people with suggestions so you can start your windowsill garden.
"Though I do not believe a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders." Thoreau
Great things can happen when we nurture the seeds of change, together we can make it happen.Power Down Hour and More - College Street Public School
Friday, March 27th, 2009We will turn off our computers and lights for one hour from 11:10 - 12:10, then have a school wide assembly to celebrate our Monthly ECO hero, watch the WWF youtube video about earth hour and watch our own video about things students can do to save energy every day.Light Conservation - Parnall Public School
Friday, March 27Our Grade 4 Science class will be conserving light while learning about light properties. We will turn off the overhead lights in the classroom, while creating ways to utilize natural light from the windows.Earth Hour - March 27, 2009 - E.L. Crossley Secondary School
March 27, 2009To show support for Earth Hour 2009, the staff and students of E.L. Crossley Secondary School will be donning white and black t-shirts to let our community know that we are not afraid of the dark, and that we will do what we can to give the Earth a rest on Friday, March 27, 2009 from 10:00 am - 11:00 am.
To help promote awareness throughout our school and our community, members of E.A.R.T.H., Environmental Advocates Ready To Help, along with their friends will:
1. Place posters in the halls encouraging students to participate in Earth Hour 2009.
2. Set up an information display during Parents' Night on Thursday, March 26th to encourage the parents of our students to participate on Saturday, March 28th starting at 8:30 pm.
3. Send a Voicegate message home on Friday afternoon to encourage our students and their families to turn out the lights during Earth Hour on Saturday, March 28th at 8:30 pm.
4. Promote energy conservation by turning out non-essential lights this Friday from 10:00 am - 11:00 am, and whenever possible for the remainder of the school year.
5. Encourage staff and students to turn lights when leaving a room.
6. Provide teachers with a list of movies and videos that could be incorporated into Friday's lessons to promote environmental awareness.
7. Encourage staff and students to bring a litterless lunch on Friday, March 27th.
8. Organize a school grounds clean-up during both lunches on Friday, March 27th.
9. Deliver GOOS Paper Bins to all offices and classrooms to encourage staff and students to use paper that is still "good-on-one-side".Blue Box Recycling - E.W. Farr Public School
Friday March 27, 20091. The grade 3 class is going to do a Community clean up. We will walk to Centennial Park in Fenwick and collect all the garbage on the ground. We will separate the items that can go in a blue box and weigh them when we are done.
2. We will give each class a seperate garbage bag for items that can go in a blue box. We will collect and weigh the schools recycling from the day.
3. Then we will watch the Polar Bear movie about global warming and discuss ways that we can make a difference.
4. When the movie is over, we will turn off our classroom lights for the rest of the day. During that time we will do a shared writing activity. We will write a pursuasive letter to the principal to convince her to get blue boxes for our school. Then we will use all the recycled items collected from each class to make a giant structure to display in the front hall of the school.
5. I have contacted the region and they will be coming to the school to do a presentation on recycling in the near future and helping us set up blue box recycling in our school.Earth Hour Challenge - Ridgeway Crystal Beach High School
March 27, 2008Ridegway Crystal Beach will celebrate Earth Hour in the following ways:
1) All lights, computers and electronic devices will be turned off from 9:00 am to 10:00 am.
2) Each period one class will complete an environmental activity. For example:
Technology classes will be completing an assignment using hand tools;
Art class will plant morning glories and tulips using compost created from the collection of on site organic waste;
Biology class will be planting tulip bulbs;
Geography class will clean-up the school yard; and
French classes will play environmental trival.
3) A voice gate message will be sent to all homes reminding them to celebrate earth hour on Saturday.Earth Hour - Human Resources, District School Board of Niagara
March 27, 20091) Litterless lunch
2) No lights no computers 12-1:00
3) Recycle onesided paper into message pads
4) Garbage clean up outside
5) Plant "green plants" for officeEarth Day - Connaught Public School
March 27,20091.) Litterless lunch
2.) Turn off lights for last period and keep everything unplugged for the weekend.
3.) Don't use bells.
4.) Last period of the day no one will talk in respect for the children of the world who do not have a chance to talk.
5.) Each classroom will in period five work with their respective buddies to use the recyling to make a craft/ structure with recycled paper and plastic bottles.
6.) Clean up the school yard.
7.) Don't use the photocopier use the backs of blank sheets.
8.) Compost all leftovers.Lights Out Lesson - Eden/Lakeport Secondary School
March 27On March 27, we will be celebrating Earth Hour as a school in the following ways:
1. 2:00-3:00 Lights Out
2. Staff will explain what it would look like to celebrate Earth Hour as a family on Saturday, March 28 at 8:30 p.m.
LESSON: 11 ways to get kids involved and engaged in year-round climate change.Community Awareness Walk - Kate S. Durdan Public School
Friday, March 27, 2009.Our Grade 1-8 students will all be involved.
Intermediate students will design and vote on a KSD Earth Hour logo.
The Jr. and Primary students will have a copy of this logo in their rooms to use to design their own individual posters for Earth Hour.Lights Out Lunch Event - Communications, District School Board of Niagara
March 27, 2009Join the Communications Department on Friday, March 27 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. for some tasty snacks and the first-ever Environmental Olympics! Test your knowledge of Mother Earth, show off your recycling skills in our "sorting relay", learn office conservation tips, and have some laughs in the process.