Environmental education for School children in SEVAI Shanthi Matriculation Higher Secondary School

Demo for kids by school teacher

Dr.K.Govindaraju enlightens

Eco-Club has been activated in SEVAI Shanthi Matriculation Higher Secondary School and the school correspondent Dr.K.Govindaraju spoke to the teachers and Eco-club members on the importance of Eco-balance and suggest a few activities for school children. Dr.K.Govindaraju further said “Environmental education activities can be integrated into all subject areas. Science: Students are working towards...sharing ways to rethink, refuse, reduce, reuse, and recycle, describing features of local plants and animals, comparing local plants & animals, describing attributes of their immediate environment. Social Studies: Students are working towards...showing an awareness of the concept of change ,identifying groups and places that are part of their lives, identifying characteristics of different local environments, showing responsible behavior in caring for their immediate environment. Language Arts & Math: integrate the above into any language arts or math lesson, Health & Career Planning: Students are working towards...identifying opportunities to make choices, identify practices that contribute to health, including healthy eating, regular physical activity, emotional health practices, and disease prevention practices, Physical Education: Students are working towards...Using the outdoors as not only as a place to get physical exercise, but to learn about how to care for the environment, participating daily in moderate to vigorous physical activities, identifying physical activities they enjoy doing. Drama & Music & Visual Arts; Students are working towards...expressing ideas or concerns about an environmental issue with drama, and songs, showing their knowledge of and responding to environmental issues with 2-D and 3-D images. Grow tree seedlings: Trees not only provide homes for animals, they affect the quality of the air we breathe. Teachers are to take children on a walk around a park, neighborhood or forest and look for tree seeds, such as acorns, horse chestnuts, maple seeds, nuts, Have each child put some rocks in the bottom of a 3 or 4 inch pot, then put potting soil on top, Each child plants 2 or 3 tree seeds and places the pots on a window sill or table near a window, Have kids take turns watering once a week, Give them a coffee scoop and a cup of water to limit the amount of water, Plant extras and do not put name tags on the plants as you will share out the ones that sprout in the Spring, After trees sprout: Give each child a tree seedling and label the pots with the children's names, Keep extra tree seedlings for experiments and in case some die, Have children measure their tree's growth with interlocking 1" blocks once a week, The children can put their results, Once the tree seedlings reach 4 to 5 inches tall, they can be planted outside, Brainstorm with the children the best places to plant the trees (not next to fences, roads or houses) and why, Send the seedlings home with a note to parents or plant them in the school yard if possible. This nature education activity uses one of the tree seedlings, a plastic bag and a string. Tie a plastic bag around a tree seedling and tie with a string to children. Have the children make observations and ask them what they notice, Let the tree in the bag sit in a warm and sunny if possible, room for a few days until water droplets form on the inside of the bag. Then bring it to the carpet and have the children make observations again, Ask questions, such as where did the water come from? The water in the bag is coming from the leaves of the plant (a process called transpiration). The bottom of the leaf has lots of tiny holes in it (called stomata). Besides letting air get in and out, the holes let water get out. As water evaporates from the leaves, more water and nutrients are sucked up by the roots. The water goes out into the air and is part of the water cycle”.-Govin