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The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, activated 20 million Americans from all walks of life and is widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement.
The idea came to Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. Inspired by the student anti-war movement, he realized that if he could infuse that energy with an emerging public consciousness about air and water pollution, it would force environmental protection onto the national political agenda. Senator Nelson announced the idea for a “national teach-in on the environment” to the national media.
Teacher resources- this international site offers information on creating green schools, lesson plans and student action plans on food, schoolyards and transportation.
Teacher resource- CarbonKids is a CSIRO initiative providing support to registered CarbonKids schools including a set of integrated curriculum units for the primary and middle years of schooling with associated resource pages exploring carbon science.
Teacher resource- Links to many science related resource,s including experiments and activities eg make a cloud in a bottle.
Available for download or loan to Landcare groups and Networks.