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Climate Action Days > Lessons & Activities
The Climate Education Leadership Team developed lesson and activity ideas for your school to choose from. These are suggestions - you can follow them exactly, or take inspiration to modify them or make your own!
How to Use Roadmaps
How to Use Roadmaps
Choose a schoolwide action. This is a simple action that your whole school can participate in. To implement it, it's as simple as making morning announcements and emailing your colleagues to let them know!
Select a roadmap with lessons and activities to support your schoolwide action:
Choose based on the time-commitment required: Mild (1-2 hours), Medium (3-5 hours), or Spicy (5+ hours)
Then choose a type of activity: learning, project-based actions, or advocacy
Your roadmap gives you a breakdown of steps you can take to plan and implement climate action in your school. Remember, these lessons and activities all lead up to your schoolwide action on Climate Action Day!
Health, Wellness, and Green Space
Health, Wellness, and Green Space
Water Collective Action: bring a reusable water bottle!
Water Collective Action: bring a reusable water bottle!
Encourage your school community to bring reusable water bottles to school for Water Climate Action Day! Keep track of how many reusable water bottles are in your school that day and share with us in our Climate Action Day participation form.
Schoolwide Action Ideas for WATER
Schoolwide Action Ideas for WATER
Water Trivia – conduct trivia about New York's water systems, in class or virtually. Make it a contest with prizes for extra fun!
Water Pledge – create a pledge for staff, students, and families to commit to save water.
Water Audit – find leaks or other water issues in or around your school to report to your custodian engineer.
Water "filters" – create your own water "filters" with sand, rocks, and more.
Student Engagement Session – join a virtual lesson/activity hosted by our office
In addition, you are encouraged to plan lessons and activities to supplement your schoolwide action and demonstrate the critical role of water systems in climate change and in our daily lives.
You, Me, and water: Water climate action day virtual kickoff
You, Me, and water: Water climate action day virtual kickoff
Join our virtual kickoff for Water Climate Action Day with your class or your entire school! Discover the ways that water connects us to the world and get inspired to save water, ease flooding risks, and protect our waterways.
Go Further: Catch Basin cleanup
Go Further: Catch Basin cleanup
Prevent flooding around your school by removing litter and debris from the nearby catch basins. Find more details on how to safely organize a catch basin cleanup in your school community in our Catch Basin Cleanup Roadmap.
HEALTH, WELLNESS AND GREEN SPACE CLIMATE ACTION DAY: STREET TREE STEWARDSHIP
HEALTH, WELLNESS AND GREEN SPACE CLIMATE ACTION DAY: STREET TREE STEWARDSHIP
For Health, Wellness, and Green Space, we are encouraging schools to participate in some Street Tree Stewardship!
WATER CLIMATE ACTION DAY: CATCH BASIN CLEAN UP
WATER CLIMATE ACTION DAY: CATCH BASIN CLEAN UP
For Water, we are encouraging schools to participate in a Catch Basin Cleanout! This aims to reduce litter making it's way into our sewer system, and prevent flooding on the street during rain storms.
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