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Connect! A Guide to Earth Month Online Celebrate Earth Month 2020 online and connect with others who are invested in our planet’s health. WWW.EARTHSHARE.ORG
EarthShare thanks its valued corporate partners for sponsoring the development of this guide, enabling us to share it broadly to inspire and empower people to celebrate our environment during Earth Day’s historic 50th anniversary.
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INTRODUCTION & CONTENTS
Introduction
April 22, 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth
What’s Inside
Day, a historical and international day of celebration,
Nationwide Online
activism, education, and volunteerism on behalf of our
Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
planet’s health — and our own.
Citizen Science: Activities
To protect our communities during the current public for your Backyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
health crisis, the global celebration has gone digital!
Connect virtually from the safety and comfort of your Adventures from Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
own home with this toolkit of online resources and
Learning Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
activities for the entire family — including curriculum
to help busy parents engage kids in environmental Explore More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
stewardship activities.
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NATIONWIDE ONLINE OPPORTUNIES
Online
Opportunities
Across the Nation
Earth Day is going virtual across
the country — check out national
e-happenings as well as virtual
opportunities in your own region.
Earth Day Network has announced that their theme The Environmental Protection Agency offers lots of
for Earth Day 2020 is climate action. Find out how you can great resources for Earth Day activities you can use from
participate this year. the comfort of your own home.
Earth Day Initiative NY is also promising a rich online Join Carbonfund.org to calculate your carbon footprint
experience to show what activism can look like in the 21st and plant trees around the world – all while sitting on your
century, and how we can empower one another to move living room couch!
things in a positive direction. Join them for a day of activity,
including a virtual stage of speakers, virtual workshop DCEFF (DC Environmental Film Festival) online is
space, and virtual exhibitors. offering hundreds of environmental films for streaming.
Explore their collection of festival films here.
The Sierra Club has hundreds of chapters across the
country and is offering opportunities that do not require an EarthX will host its Earthx2020 Conferences and
in-person presence. Check it out to find out how you can EarthxFilm Festival virtually this year. Visit them to find out
create sustainable change in your community. how you can plug in.
While we can’t show our love for America’s national park
system in person during this year’s National Park Week,
Go Online. Go Local.
you can get involved on social media and stay caught Click these cities below for regional online events to
up on news. You can also share photos and stories of celebrate Earth Month 2020.
your favorite National Park through the National Parks New York City Fort Collins St. Louis
Conservation Association’s Share Your Story project! Dallas Omaha
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CITIZEN SCIENCE
Citizen Science:
Activities for Your
Own Backyard
Enjoy the outdoors safely and
responsibly with some of these
opportunities from EarthShare
member organizations.
Design a Wildlife Garden Build a Bat House
National Wildlife Federation Bat Conservation International
Find out how to design a garden space Bats are often misunderstood — you can learn the facts
to create a natural landscape and habitat here about the essential role they play in keeping our
for local species. Visit National Wildlife Federation for natural systems healthy. Did you know bats help keep
tips. You can also explore their Native Plant Finder to find away mosquitos? Reason enough to give them a home
plant species local to your area. Check out NWF’s guide in your own backyard. Find out how to build a single
on pollinator gardening to help ensure that our critical chamber bat house and check out BCI’s Kidz Cave for
pollinators have hospitable habitat! coloring pages and activity ideas, too!
Bumble Bee Watch For the Birds
Xerces Society National Audubon Society
Upload photos of bumble bees to start Download the Audubon Bird Guide app to inform your
a virtual bumble bee collection. Help to backyard bird counts. You can learn more about the
track and conserve North America’s bumble bees. Great Backyard Bird Count here.
Check out more community science projects from
Xerces Society.
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ADVENTURES FROM HOME
Adventures
from Home
Explore the wonders of nature
with unique virtual visits of sites
across the United States.
Visit a National Park Say Hi to Some Animal Friends
U.S. National Park Service Smithsonian’s National Zoo
Take a virtual tour of U.S. National Parks, Check in on your favorite critters at the
including a detailed look at the natural National Zoo in Washington, DC, with these
wonders of Yellowstone National Park. Don’t miss the fun animal cams. Be sure to download the supplemental
world-famous bear cams at Katmai National Park, part of packet, Educational Activities You Can Do at Home.
a collaboration with the website Explore.org to stream the
complex (and often entertaining) lives of bears right into
Stroll a Botanical Garden
your home.
Franklin Park Conservatory
Check out online exhibits about butterflies and bonsai
Go Under the Waves trees from the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical
National Aquarium Gardens in Columbus, Ohio.
Explore life underwater with Tour an Underwater Monument
webcams from the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Natural Resources Defense Council
Check out their At Home Aquatic Activities online portal,
which includes word searches, coloring pages, and other Watch an animated tour of New England’s Northeast
activity ideas. Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.
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LEARNING ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS & ADULTS
Learning
Activities for Kids
and Adults
Take a deep dive into the
natural world with these virtual
activities and programs.
Wildlife Career Video ZooCrew Family Guide
Smithsonian’s National Zoo Smithsonian’s National Zoo
Catch the National Zoo’s online series, Other This educational activity booklet will engage
Duties As Assigned: the Secret World of Zoo children and adults together in learning about
Jobs — four playful videos that show you what it really the different animals at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo
means when you say, “I want to work at a zoo.” In each with games, activities, animal facts, and stories about zoo
video, a different zoo staff member takes you behind scientists at work. These guides are intended for adults
the scenes of his or her job and answers questions from and children to share, and are available in both English
curious students. and Spanish.
Wildlife Toolkits Virtual Field Trip
World Wildlife Fund The Nature Conservancy
Check out information guides and activities Explore natural environments without leaving your
that will help you understand how your house! Visit NatureLab from the Nature Conservancy,
actions shape the future of our planet. Explore these a series of online virtual field trips for the whole family.
toolkits from World Wildlife Fund. The kids will enjoy their Each virtual tour contains a detailed video as well as a
Wild Classroom Daily Activity too! teaching guide.
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EXPLORE MORE
Explore
More
Discover more about the world
outside your door, and how we
can meet critical environmental
challenges as a society.
400 Years on the Hudson River Farming Success Stories
Riverkeeper American Farmland Trust
Take a four-century journey up the Read about how farmers are protecting and preserving
Hudson River from New York City to Albany to assess the America’s irreplaceable farmland and the communities
past, present, and future of the legendary waterway. and economies it supports.
Sustainable Placemaking Follow the Frog!
Natural Resources Defense Council Rainforest Alliance
Explore how we can make our world healthier Learn how products with the Rainforest Alliance
and more sustainable by looking at solutions for Certified™ seal support farms that safeguard soils,
climate change, communities, energy, food, and water. waterways, and farmworker well-being.
Buffalo Parks Documentary Games for kids and adults!
Olmstead Parks Conservancy
Virtual Treehouse | Explore the rainforest wonders
The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux and in the Rainforest Alliance’s vitual treehouse.*
the Buffalo Park System examines the development of
Animal Trivia | How well do you know your favorite
the nation’s first park system in 1868.
animals? Take World Wildlife Fund’s quiz to find out!
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