Clubs

Activity Ideas for Eco-Clubs

Climate Change Presentation: Students and teachers can show the climate change presentation to their peers. Download a PDF version here: Climate Change Presentation  Adobe (PDF - 1240 KB)

Car-free Day Pick one day when students and staff are discouraged from getting to school by car. Set up carpool lists, make announcements, put up posters, to let your peers know that your school is trying to reduce the number of cars that show up at school on car-free day – and each day. Remember to reward sustainable transporters. You can also stop drivers as they exit the school property and give them a bookmark with important facts about car pollution. Challenge other schools to join with you and have a friendly competition.

Green Day No, not the band. Set aside a day when students wear green to school. Then the class with the most students wearing green can win a fabulous eco-prize (ask your local bus company for freebies). You could also set up a hair dye booth in the cafeteria and students could dye a section of their hair green to show their support for the environment and sustainable transportation. Add some face painting (green or not) and you've got a fun and creative way to profile earth-friendly actions.

Earth Cookies Baking is always fun and yummy too! Bake some round sugar cookies and decorate them with green and blue icing. Sell or distribute them in the cafeteria to highlight environmental awareness. If that's not creative enough, let students decorate their cookies with the icing. It'll be messy but a whole lot of fun!

E-zine Calling all writers, it's time to let the creative juices flow! Collect short stories, articles, poems, cartoons and artwork from your classmates to publish in an environmental magazine or newsletter. Make the theme about sustainable transportation and then distribute the final product throughout the school.

Boarders & Bikers Do you have some talented skateboarders or BMXers at your school? Then why not set up a mini skatepark or an obstacle course and let the school see their talent. Do it during lunch and play some rockin' music. It could encourage a lot more people to start to bike or board to school.

Tune it Up Ask a local cycling shop if they will send some technicians to your school to do bike tune-ups for the students. They could also train some students on how to tune up a bike. Now no-one will have an excuse not to ride to school!

Raffle It Hand out raffle tickets to students who walk, ride, blade or board to school (something sustainable). Then pick a winner and award them with a bus pass, bike helmet, a new bike, or some other great prize hopefully donated by a local organization.

Fiesta on the Bus Ask the local transit company to donate a bus for an hour. Fill it with balloons and fiesta music and serve up some mocktails, chips and salsa. Add some posters with facts about car pollution and the benefits of taking the bus so party-ers have something to read while they dance. Who gets to come to the party is up to you to decide. It'll be the best hour of school ever!

Squish the Beetle Check with your principal before you plan this one...Create a competition between the grades in your school to see which grade can squish the most people into a Volkswagen Beetle (or a similarly small car). Think of it as extreme carpooling! Guinness has a world record on this, but go for your own.