Earth Day will be observed on March 20, 2007
EARTH DAY TIPS:
Plant a tree that will shade your house as well as reduce the need
for air conditioning.
Participate in your community's recycling program and recycle all
you can.
Combine short car trips, or use a bicycle or walk instead.
Improve your home's energy efficiency by adding insulation and
caulking, and regularly cleaning heating and air conditioning
filters.
Compost yard trimmings and food waste in a backyard compost bin.
Don't bag grass clippings - either leave them on the lawn or
compost them.
When buying paint, cleaners or other chemicals, buy only what you
need and use what you buy.
Practice water conservation - install a low flow shower head or
make an Earth Day pledge to take shorter showers.
Use compact fluorescent lights to conserve up to 75 percent of the
energy consumed by incandescent bulbs.
Purchase durable goods and choose products made with recycled
materials and with minimal or recyclable packaging.
Reduce the amount of unwanted junk mail - have your name removed
from mailing lists. |
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Recipe 4 EDIBLE EARTH (4 Layers)
You will need a large mixing bowl (the larger the better) for this
activity. To end up with a frozen model of half the earth, you
will
need these materials:
green ice cream
graham crackers
chocolate ice cream
with nuts
yellow ice cream
Dragees (little metal-like edible silver spheres)
vanilla ice cream
red food coloring
green food coloring
The How To Part:
Before constructing the edible earth, you may wish to make a scale
model cross-section, or relate the size of the sections to known
objects, such as the mantle to the size of a grapefruit and the
outer core to the size of an egg.
Make each layer and then freeze in the mixing bowl (one layer at a
time).
The four layers to make in order are:
1. Crust: use green ice cream and crushed graham crackers.
Freeze this layer.
2. Mantle: chocolate ice cream with nuts (rocks).
Freeze this layer on top of. crust.
3. Outer core: yellow ice cream with a few Dragees sprinkled
throughout. Freeze this layer on top of the mantle.
4. Inner core: gray ice cream (made by adding equal amounts (drop
by drop) of red and green food coloring to vanilla ice cream), and
a
greater concentration of Dragees.
Freeze this layer on top of the outer core.
When your model is finished you can observe the layers, compare
them, and then best of all, eat them!
This recipe is from Merle's Recipes for Learning
merle@sodamail.com
Sodamail Web site:
http://www.sodamail.com
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Earth
Day Concentration Puzzle |
Earth Day
Network
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| Earth
Day Pay Day Game |
Earth Day
Online Games from the Kaboose Network |
Earth
Day Wordsearch
(play online)
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Eddy the Eco
Dog |
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EPA Explorers Club |
Garbage |
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Headbone Derby: Ecology
Strikes Back! |
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The
Lorax's Save the Trees Game |
| Planet
Pals EarthZone |
Recycle City |
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Teacher Ideas |
Ideas from T2T
This page may be out of date regarding the date Earth Day is
observed, but the ideas are still good. :-) |
Ideas from Wilderness.org |
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Earth Day
Crafts |
Earth Day
Activities
for younger children - looks like and interesting page after
you get past the annoying pop-up ads. |
Curriculum Resources for Green Education from Education Reporting
Inc.
Thank you to Michael Bentley for this link. |
Earth Day