Created By: Athena Tassis

MT Candidate, OISE

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Draw a picture of your favourite plant and tape it to your window at home!

Brighten up the winter days by drawing a picture and showing others your favourite plant!

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Let’s learn a little about plants here:

https://watchandlearn.scholastic.com/videos/animals-and-plants/plants/what-are-plants.html

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Instructions

1. Think about your favourite type of plant.

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• Start creating! Draw your plant on a piece of paper. Is it big? Is it small?

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• Find a place you want to display your artwork and brighten up someone's day! You can tape it to your window or even on your fridge!

What you’ll need:

• Markers/crayons
• Paper
• Tape

Sunflower drawing

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Read a book about recycling or waste!

Here are a few books about recycling, reusing and waste reduction. You can ask an adult to help you borrow an electronic version through the Toronto Public Library or on Epic. You can also listen to the read-along on Youtube, by clicking on the links below.

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Plant a Dry Bean in a Cup or in a Jar!

Directions:

1. Place the cotton balls into the base of the jar; place the bean/s between the cotton balls and the side of the jar.
2. Water the bean, making sure the cotton balls are damp but not too wet.
3. Place the jar by the window near sunlight.
4. Remember to keep the cotton balls damp by watering your bean plant.

What you’ll need:

• Cotton balls
• 1 Cup Water
• Clear Jar
• Dried beans

How to Video:

Within 2-3 days the bean will start to sprout a small root!

Watch the How to Video to see the instructions step by step.

Buying local fruits and vegetables and gardening in the summer is a great way to practice being an eco-warrior. Let’s try growing our own food! Plant a dry bean in a cup and watch it grow. Once the weather is warm enough, you can plant your bean outside!

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Create a “Turn Off The Lights” Switch Holder

Let’s create a light switch sticker to remind us to turn off the lights! We turn off the lights to help save electricity and the planet by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

What you’ll need:

• Markers/crayons
• Paper
• Tape

Image created by grade 5 students at the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study

Watch a video about why it’s important to turn off the lights:

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Instructions

1. Fold your paper in fours and then cut it into four pieces.

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• Think of a fun drawing or a catchy saying that will help you remember to turn off the lights. Draw your image.

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• Ask a parent to help you cut out a hole the size of your light switch in the middle of your drawing or paste the poster you created next to your light switch.

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Create a Piece of Art Work with Things You Were Going to Throw Out

Reusing materials is a great way to reduce waste and be creative!

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The book “What a Waste”, by Jess French, discusses the importance of waste reduction and reusing materials. The author also teaches us about climate change and its effects on the environment.

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Instructions

• Look in your recycling and for things that were going to be thrown out. Make sure to ask a parent if you’re allowed to use those materials that you chose. Some good examples are old kitchen paper rolls and candy wrappers for example.

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• Start creating! Take all your materials and make something unique!

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What you’ll need:

• Materials that were going to be thrown out
• Markers/crayons
• Tape

Here's a robot made from recycled material

“What a Waste” By: Jess French

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Why are Bees Important? Watch a Video About Bees!

What did you learn about bees? Why are they an important part of our ecosystem?

If you’d like, take a look at these links here to learn more about pollinators!

https://www.cbc.ca/kidscbc2/the-feed/5-fun-facts-about-bees

https://www.beyondpesticides.org/assets/media/documents/pollinators/documents/Pollinatorsforkids.pdf

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Video all about Bees:

Why are bees important? Bees are an important part of our ecosystem. Bees are pollinators and they help plants grow and reproduce. Pesticides and harmful pollutants are very harmful to the bee population which affects our ecosystems and food chains. What can you do to protect our bees? Well, first you can start by learning a little bit more about why bees are important below. Next you can spread awareness by telling people about what you’ve learned.

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Create an ECO Poster

Be inspired! Learn a little bit about climate change on this website here: https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/science/climate-change/

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Instructions

• Think about an Eco topic that you think is important. You can even use some examples from the National Geographic link above.

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• Get your pencil crayons and start creating!

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• Find a place you want to display your poster. You can tape it to your window or even on your fridge!

What you’ll need:

• Markers/crayons
• Paper (try to use scrap paper)
• Tape

Here are some Eco Poster examples by students

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Grow a Vegetable from Kitchen Scraps

What you’ll need:

• Vegetable scraps from celery, lettuce or carrots (see video)
• 1 Cup Water
• Bowl

How to Video:

Here is a link to the instructions for vegetable scrap gardening: https://www.littlegreenthumbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Kitchen-scrap-gardening.pdf

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Why is gardening important? Gardening can help reduce your carbon footprint. When you buy locally grown foods or you harvest your own produce, your fruits and vegetables are traveling a very short distance to get to your table. Try to grow your own vegetables from kitchen scraps!

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Learn About Water Preservation

Meet Autumn Peltier, an Indigenous youth water activist and Water Protector. Autumn fights for clean drinking water for Indigenous communities and for Mother Earth. Protecting our water is important because it not only provides us with clean drinking water, but it protects all of the wildlife and species that live in the water or drink from the water. We must make sure that our water is not being polluted with harmful chemicals and oils.

Take a look at this CBC Kids link to learn more about Autumn Peltier and how water pollution affects indigenous communities:

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https://www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/post/watch-teen-activist-autumn-peltier-demands-clean-drinking-water-for-all

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