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!
October 20 (9:00 – 9:30 AM)
Join our Waste Climate Action Day kick-off with your class or entire school! We will dive into re-use as a method for waste reduction and everyday items that we can re-use.
Bring Your Own Reusable Water Bottle Day
Say No to Food Waste – start a Share Table in your cafeteria
Host a Swap – swap secondhand items like clothing or supplies
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 in your classroom.
When we sort our food scraps and compostable trays, utensils, and napkins in the cafeteria, it turns into compost to amend our soil.
We have partner organizations that can help you with adding compost to your nearby street trees, and other tasks that support our urban forest. Use this request form to share your proposed stewardship date, group size, and equipment needs. We will connect you with one of our partners for support!
For Health, Wellness, and Green Space, we are encouraging schools to participate in some Street Tree Stewardship!
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.