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Earth Day is April 22! Our science teachers and the faculty advisors of Environmental Action Group have compiled a list of ideas and resources to help students and parents make the most of the occasion—which marks the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day!

Fun & Simple Ideas

• Do a trash clean up in your area, with gloves & mask.
• Make an Earth Day poster and hang it in your window for your neighbors to see.
• Use sidewalk chalk to create an Earth-friendly message for your neighborhood
• Write a poem to the earth and share it with Andy Bromage and your teacher.
• Research native plants for your family lawn or garden. 
• Go on a nature walk or participate in a neighborhood safari.
• Grow seeds inside to plant outside in warmer weather.
• Build your own bird feeder from household materials.
• Create a list of 50 things people can do to help the earth.
• Make a pledge to change one thing about your lifestyle to help the earth.

Activities for Families

• Select a Digital Event to participate in at Earth Day 2020's official website. They also have links to many other resources!
• Save the Sound virtual Earth Day: short film & discussion, Wednesday, April 22 at 8 p.m. (recording will also be available after the date). Local to New Haven
• Audubon's "I Saw a Bird Spring Migration" webinar: Wednesday, April 22 at 7 p.m.
• Earth Optimism Summit hosted by the Smithsonian April 22-24.
• Hartford celebrates Virtual Earth Day 50 by Hartford Climate Stewardship Initiative April 22-29
• Environmental History Timeline with add-your-own-ending from earthday.org
• Free Family Activities & Earth Day specific ones from Project Learning Tree
• 12 Meaningful Earth Day activities for all grade levels
• Earth Day poetry from poets.org
• 10 free Earth Day coloring pages from Parents magazine
• EPA Earth Day ideas

• Family Activity Ideas from National Geographic
• Get ideas from the Sierra Club
• More Earth Friendly Product Ideas.

Short Films (20 minutes or less)

• Earth Day 50th Anniversary Movie from The American Museum of Natural History, as shown at tomorrow morning's Middle School meeting.
• History of Earth Day by History Canada
• Earth Challenge 2020 by Woodrow Wilson Center
• Earth Day Daily Challenge by earthday.org
• Rachel Carson documentary from PBS

Full-length Movies

• Environmental Film Festival at Yale
• Environmental Films EAG has shown the community: Chasing Ice, The Lorax, WALL-E, Fly Away Home, Disney's Bears, Monkey Kingdom, Born in China
• A Plastic Ocean documentary (not suitable for students below 5th grade.)
• Mission Blue (a nice mix of the realities our oceans are facing and hope, likely not appealing for students under 5th grade)
• Many nature documentaries, such as Planet Earth & Planet Ocean, available for streaming from Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney +, etc.

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