Презентация к уроку Earth Day

The Earth Day

It is the day

for people to learn what

they can do to save the Earth

The first Earth Day celebration took place on April 22, 1970 , a date that many consider to be the birth of the modern environmental movement . The purpose of Earth Day is to bring national attention to issues impacting the Earth and ways to help protect the environment so that future generations may also enjoy it.

In December 1970, 7 months after the first Earth Day celebration, the U.S. Congress created the Environmental Protection Agency to monitor and protect the environment.

In 1990 the holiday became international.

The three R’s of the environment are: Reduce (generating less waste each day); Reuse (using products multiple times instead of discarding them); and Recycle (collecting products so they can be turned into news ones).

What must we reduce? We must reduce

Using electricity

Using running water

What can we reuse? We can reuse

Glass bottles and tins

Metal tins

What can we recycle? We can recycle

All kinds of paper

All kinds of plastic

All kinds of metal

What can we do to save the planet?

Activities associated with helping the Earth often include

planting trees,

raising awareness about recycling, volunteering for green projects, and reducing the amount

of energy people consume.

Read and translate the words

petition

signatures

samples

community board

officials

mural

http://vimeo.com/11237226

3,840 Minutes Saving a Local Park

3,840 Minutes Saving a Local Park

1. Who started the campaign?

2. What is the name of their campaign?

3. What do they want to do with the ball fields?

Watch the film again. Use The Present Perfect to say what the group has done and what it hasn't done yet.

e.g. Find volunteers

They have found volunteers.

1. Write a petition

2. Collect signatures for the campaign

3. Present the petition to the local community board

4. Plant trees and flowers

5. Write an article to the local newspaper

6. Collect and study samples of soil

7. Research health and environmental conditions in their community

8. Meet with the local officials

9. Paint benches

10. Do a mural on the outside of a bathroom building

What will you need if you want to start a campaign? Make sentences.

  If we want

to clean a polluted area

to plant flowers

to lay out a park

to paint benches

  we'll need

spades

rakes

gloves

paint

trash bags

paintbrushes

dump trucks

flower seeds

young trees

volunteers

donations

permission from local officials

Imagine that you want to organize a successful campaign. What can you do to let as many people as possible learn about your campaign? Match parts of the sentences.

We can

tell about the campaign to

put an article about the campaign in

make a presentation in

write letters about your campaign to

talk about the campaign on

develop

a local newspaper

a special website about the campaign

your friends and neighbours

the radio or on TV

your class or school

popular ecological organizations

Homework

Imagine you want to start a campaign to improve the ecological situation in your town.

1. Choose an aim of your campaign (e.g. to plant trees in a local park)

2. Think of a name for your campaign.

3. Decide what you need for your campaign.

4. Think what you can do to make the campaign popular.

5. Make an action plan for your campaign and present it to the class.

Be GREEN at home!

• Turn off the lights when you leave your room;
• Turn off the monitor when you’re not using computer;
• Always think about how much energy you use ;
• Close the faucet when you don`t need it;
• Take showers instead of baths;
• Use the dishwasher and washing machine only when fully loaded;
• Use paper, not plastic

Be GREEN in the countryside!

• Don’t hurt animals and birds;
• Don’t damage birds’ nests;
• Feed animals and birds in winter;
• Don’t cut down baby trees;
• Don`t paint on trees;
• Don’t throw rubbish into the rivers;
• Don’t leave litter after your picnics;
• Never forget that you are the admire, not the aggressor;
• Don`t leave fire.

Do you like it?

Be GREEN at school!

• Ride your bicycle to school, a lot of cars pollute the air;
• Use both parts of the paper for writing or drawing something;
• Turn off the lights and computers when you leave school;
• Organize the ecological school groups.

Everyday is Earth Day,

If it’ s not cold or wet or hot

Pitch in to save the planet

It’s the only one we’ve got.

-Author Unknown

We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells