Earth Hour...

We received this story from one of students, who enjoyed the Earth Hour!

Earth Hour ... Switch for Mother Earth!

We organized a pledge campaign for Earth Hour. It was a day of Parent Teachers Meet and many parents came to the school, many of the m visited our display and signed up for the Earth Hour.
250 families signed up for the Earth Hour. If all of them kept their promise to the Earth, then we can estimate about  1000 KVA electric appliances were switched off for 1 whole hour. That is a big saving for one campaign and we hope it offsets the Carbon Footprint of our event. 
We printed a 10 feet by 8 feet banner, it definitely has a measurable carbon footprint, but the amount of work it did was well worth it.


We learned: Beautiful posters attract attention and they are effective in conveying message!

Strategies continued: An Hour and A Day ...

Strategy 4: Organize pulse of activities from ‘Earth Hour’ to ‘Earth Day’.
We will celebrate ‘Earth Hour’ (27 March 2010) and ‘Earth Day’ (22 April 2010) in a big way, to raise awareness about what can an individual person do to save earth. We will organize activities in the school between these two dates. The program was named ‘An Hour and A Day’.
aim: To celebrate these important days for mother earth and use them to raise awareness about Mother Earth!

Planning Strategies continued...

Strategy 3.1: We used the information packages sent to us by Centre for Environment Education and United Nations Information Center. We even showed them the video ‘Under One Sky’ prepared for Animal Action Week by International Fund for Animal Welfare .
Students liked the videos and enjoyed the activities.
Each student got few stickers about how to fight Climate Change and a poster about 12 things we can do to fight Climate Change.
aim: To create awareness about the various international agencies and their work among the future leaders.

All the children liked the video ‘Under One Sky’ prepared by the IFAW and once they understood that 2010 is the year of Bio-Diversity declared by the United Nations, all the students wanted to do a SKIT o this theme. We prepared a short skit, which we planned to present in the Morning Assembly of the school on 22nd April.
aim: To awaken the creativity of the children and channel it throw arts.

Planning Strategies...

Strategy 1: To organize more activities on theme ‘Save Earth – Save Ourselves’
We discussed with our Principal Dr. Mrs. Alka Sharma about organizing a Collage Competition for students of classes V & VI on 20th April, she agreed immediately. She also suggested the theme for the notice boards to be ‘Save Earth – Save Ourselves’ for month of April.
aim: To involve young minds in a fun activity related to saving earth, this in turn will raise awareness about this important issue.

Strategy 2: Organize some event, which includes lot of artistic expression for ‘Save Earth – Save Ourselves’ campaign.  Invite representatives of Government Agencies and media to cover this event.
After much brainstorming we came up with an idea to organize an art exhibition to display the theme of our project ‘Earth of My Dream…’

aim: Display our dream through arts and raise awareness about environment and earth issues.

Strategy 3: Focus on the leaders of tomorrow and make it fun for them.

We know that if we want safe future, we need to focus on the leaders of tomorrow, (today we call them children!). We organized few activities based on this theme for the students of our school and in some neighbourhood children groups. The kids just loved these activities and learnt a lot through them.

aim: Today's children are tomorrow's leaders, empower them now!