Making a Difference

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Making a Difference

• 50 simple things Elementary Kids can do to Save
  the Earth!

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We travel together, passengers on a little
spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable supplies
of air, water, and soil preserved from
annihilation only by the care, the work, and I
will say, the love we give our fragile craft
Adlai Stevenson
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What to do to help our awesome land.
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Guard our buried treasures

• What is happening to our land?

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What Kids say

• We have to stop buying things that we use once
  and then throw away.
• Karen Leason, Age 10

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What Mr. Fulton says

• There is no away!

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Take a guess

• What is glass make of?
• Frozen water
• Sand
• Plastic

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Did you know

• Every month we throw out enough glass to fill up
  a giant skyscraper? Over 28 billion bottles and
  jars!
• Glass can be recycled at factories where they
  break the bottles, melt them down and make new
  jars and bottles this saves energy.

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Buy Now Play Later

• How many of your toys were once your moms or
  dads?
• All of them
• None of them
• One or two of them.

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What can you do?

• Look for toys that are make to last and not going
  to break the first time you use them.

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Take a guess

• How many times can one aluminum can be recycled?
• Never
• Once
• Again and again and again.

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Did you know?

• We use over 65 billion aluminum cans every year
  and we could recycle every one of them.
• There is no limit to the number of times an
  aluminum can could be recycled. You might be
  drinking out of a can that was used 20 years ago.
• Recycling aluminum saves energy. The energy you
  save from recycling one can could keep your TV
  running for three hours!

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Precycle it!

• Over half of the plastic we buy and throw away
  each year is just packaging. What happens to it
  when its thrown away?
• Nothing it just sits there and clutters up the
  Earth
• It rots back into the earth
• People reuse it .

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What can you do?

• Look for things in packages that can be reused or
  recycled
• Look for cardboard or paper packages not
  styrofoam or plastic.
• Some times the packaging costs more than the item!

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Pass it on.!

• How much of the stuff we throw out could be
  recycled?
• None of it - garbage is no good for any thing
• Just a little bit
• Half of it

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What can you do?

• Have a garage sale
• Donate to the Trift store,Salvation Army,or Twice
  But Nice
• Offer things you no longer use to other people.

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Stamp out Styrofoam

• Take a guess
• If you lined up all the Styrofoam cups used in
  just one day, how far would they reach?
• A mile
• Around the earth
• Across Canada

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Did you know?

• Styrofoam is permanent garbage. In cant EVER
  become part of the earth again
• Styrofoam is dangerous to animals. Some think it
  is food and eat it.

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What can you do?

• Avoid Stryrofoam - it is often made from one of
  the chemicals that caused the ozone layer to
  thin.
• Carry a cup in your back pack.
• Use dishes that you can wash rather than throw
  away.
• Bring a litterless lunch, not just this week but
  every week.

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Feed the worms!

• Take a guess
• Which of these is something a worm wont eat??
• Beef Steak
• Dirt
• Vegetables

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Did you know?

• You can make compost out of any thing that was
  once alive. (dont use meat though)
• Each of us produces about 600 kg of organic
  garbage per year. That would weigh more than
  all the kids in this school.
• None of it needs to go in the landfill it can go
  back into your garden.
• Worms can help you compost and they are good for
  your garden.

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What you can do

• Start a compost
• Dont throw away perfectly good apples and
  oranges. If you dont like something in your
  lunch tell your parents so they wont waste money
  buying it.

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What can you do about solid waste?

• Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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What can you do about Preserving our oceans,
rivers, lakes and streams?
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What Kids Say

• If we, the people, pollute the water, we will
  kill the fish and the animals that live nearby
  will die too. Then it will make the food chain
  out of order. Then we will die because the food
  chain is not in order.
• Joey Leichter, Age 10

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What is a food chain anyhow?
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All of our energy comes from the sun.
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Energy from the sun is captured by plants through
photosynthesis.
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Animals capture the energy from the plants.
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Some animals eat plants and other animals
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Some animals eat only other animals.
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Every link in the chain is important.We must
keep all the parts. Even some things we dont
like or cant understand why the are important.
Aldo Leopold (paraphrased)
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Weeds are flowers too.
Thistle
Crab grass
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More weeds
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Rattlesnake
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Insects
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Viruses and Bacteria
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Starlings
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Sharks
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Leeches
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Wolves
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Remember..
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The earth does not belong to man Man belongs to
the earth Man did not weave the web of life We
are merely a strand in it What we do to the web
We do to ourselves. Chief Seattle 1853
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What can you do to conserve water?Be a water
leak detective

• If a leaky faucet fills a coffee cup in 10
  minutes how much water will it waste in a year
  Enough for?
• A glass of water.
• A bath
• 52 baths

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What can you do?Prestp on, Presto off

• Turn the tap off while brushing your teeth
• Wash your car with a bucket of water
• Sweep your driveway
• Use drip irrigation
• Plant native plants xeric landscaping
• Turn your tap off when peeling vegetables
• Keep water in the fridge so it is cold.
• Obey water restrictions

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Take a guess

• Where do you use most of the drinkable water in
  your house?
• a) the kitchen sink
• b) the garden hose
• c) the toilet

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What can you do?

• Get a low volume toilet or put something in the
  back of the toilet so less water flushes
• Dont flush needlessly

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Shower or Bath

• Take a guess
• Which uses more water
• A bath
• An eight minute shower

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What can you do?Dont Dump it!

• Take a guess
• Which of these would you want in your drinking
  water?
• Furniture polish
• Motor oil
• Paint thinner

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None of them!
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Storm drains lead to streams.
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What you can do

• Get rid of harmful chemicals properly. Dont dump
  them on the ground or down the drain. If you
  dont know how to get rid of them phone the
  Ministry of Water,Land, Air Protection 558-1717

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Protect those streams!

• What can you do?
• Plant, Plant, Plant, dont litter and conserve
  water!

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Plant, Plant, Plant!
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What about our Air,Energy and Global Climate
Change
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What can you do!
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Help cut down on the use of fossil fuels.
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Walk,run, bike, skate, scoot, .
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Did you know that over half the energy used in
the home is for heating and that over half of
that is wasted?
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What can you do?Turn down the heat

• Turn up the cooling

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Turn off the electricity that is not being used.
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Take a guess

• How does most heat escape from your house?
• A) through the walls
• B) through the basement
• C) through the windows and doors

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What can you do?

• Pull down window shades at night and close the
  curtains when its cold
• If your parents want to put up weather stripping
  ask if you can help
• Go on a leak hunt with a feather or a ribbon
• Close the door

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Saving energy can help in many ways.
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When you are an adult and making choices choose
green energy.
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The main thing is get involved

• Join an environmental club
• Help teach your parents
• Write letters about concerns
• Be aware, do your homework, take action
• Dream for a better world
• Appreciate what a beautiful part of the world we
  live in.
• Every week is Earth Week

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Taking ethical, safe, meaningful action,The
Monday Group.

• Take only positive positions Be for something
• Do your home work - become an expert
• Eliminate Stereotyping-treat everyone as an
  individual of high moral worth.
• Keep a balanced view
• Keep your options open
• Dont make excuses or scape goat
• Try, try again

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Share the work- be wary of the tragedy of the
commons

• We are all in this together. Whose job is it?

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can,
but then...do something. Don't just stand there,
make it happen. --Lee Iacocca
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed,
its the only thing that ever has.Margaret Mead
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Every week is Environment Week and every day is
Earth Day(but nobody is perfect)Mr. Fulton
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Please help me sing - to the tune of Home,Home on
the Range
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Oh, give me a home,where the fresh waters foam
And the white mountain peaks pierce the
skyWhere the Peregrines fly through the crystal
blue sky,and the kokanee hatches close by.Home
Home in B.C.where the mountains sweep down to the
sea, Where the salmon and trout, swim swiftly
about and the Grizzly Bear watches close
by.Please help me save, where the tall grasses
waveAnd the pine trees old hands with the
starsWith the sounds of the frogs and the
smells of the bogsIts the land that is dearest
to me
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Home Home in B.C.where the mountains seep down to
the sea, where the salmon and trout, swim swiftly
aboutAnd the Grizzly Bear watches close by. If
you have a chance to restore or enhanceAnd to
give all your best to the earthYou will not
regret all your toil and your sweatIts the land
that is dearest to all. Home Home in B.C.where
the mountains sweep down to the sea, where the
salmon and trout, swim swiftly aboutAnd the
Grizzly Bear watches close by.
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Have a great week!