Here’s a tip for any eco-friendly health conscious teachers out there.
Encourage your students to have a healthy organic fruit snack rather than some packaging heavy junk food snack once a week. While their snacking, informally teach them about something environment or health related — tell them a little story or fact about the huge amount of packaging that goes into junk food products and how that packaging has to go somewhere after they throw it away, despite it being out of sight — there are plenty of surprising facts that’ll make your students go Wow.
When they’ve finished snacking, pass around a Tru-Green envelope and ask them to put any banana skins, apple cores, orange peels or other organic matter left over from the snack in the envelope.
Tru-green envelopes are 100% compostable and biodegradable, so you can conveniently take the whole package and contents outside and place it onto the compost heap. You could also use the Tru Green story to teach your students about eco-friendly manufacturing and offsetting carbon footprints.
Here’s where it gets fun.
Build a small compost heap outside — this is something you could do with your students gradually for five minutes every week.
While you’re conducting your weekly eco-friendly activity you could use the time to teach your children about composting, decomposition, the importance of biodegradability and the environmental dangers associated with land fill sites. After all, by the time your children are grown up it will be much more of a problem and they’ll need to be educated as they’ll be the ones dealing with it as eco-related jobs increase in demand.
It could be a neat little activity your kids look forward to each week, encouraging healthy eating and eco-education. It also gives them a chance to get outside and learn hands on.
Who knows, maybe you’ll send a whole new group of eco-warriors out into the world, equipped with the skills, knowledge and enthusiasm to help save the environment, whilst also securing great jobs doing what they are passionate about. And maybe when they’re doing so they’ll think back about they’re weekly compost activity and that teacher who knew all those amazing facts about the environment!
Why not give it a try.
Do you have any eco tips you could share?
If you have any short sharp interesting eco facts that our readers could benefit from (and maybe use during their weekly compost activity — or other similar activity), send them in and we will post them up. If they’re related to this post you can use the comments form below.
The Go Green Blog is a great place to share ideas, and the more contributors we get the more we all get out of it, so get involved today.
Leave a Reply
Do you want a picture to display next to your comments? Upload one here.