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2015 Sustainability Calendar
January 2015
Energy Month
ACTIVITY FOR THE MONTH
Energy Scavenger Hunt
There are renewable (geothermal,
solar, wind), non-renewable (oil,
natural gas, coal) and secondary
(electricity) energy sources.
Have the class divide into 4-5 small
groups. Each group should
brainstorm examples of each type of
energy, and then find pictures or
items representing each. These can
be turned into an exhibit about
energy.
Then, the teams can use their energy
smarts to come up with as many
ways to conserve energy at school
and at home as possible.
January 2015 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
National Cut Your
Energy Costs Day
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Martin Luther King
Jr. Day
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
February 2015 Electricity Month
ACTIVITY FOR THE MONTH
Light It Up
Celebrate Thomas Edison’s birthday by making
a potato light.
What You’ll Need:
A large potato
Two pennies
Two zinc-plated nails
Three pieces of copper wire
A very small light bulb or LED light
Directions:
1. Cut the potato in half, then cut a small
slit into each half, large enough to slide
a penny inside.
2. Wrap some copper wire around each
penny a few times. Use a different piece
of wire for each penny.
3. Stick the pennies in the slits you cut into
the potato halves.
4. Wrap some of the third copper wire
around one of the zinc-plated nails and
stick the nail into one of the potato
halves.
5. Take the wire connected to the penny in
the half of potato with the nail and wrap
some of it around the second nail. Stick
that second nail into the other potato
half.
6. When you connect the two loose ends
of the copper wires to the light bulb or
LED it will light up
February 2015 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Wetlands Day
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Thomas Edison’s
Birthday Valentine’s Day
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
World Thinking Day
March 2015 Good Neighbor Month
ACTIVITY FOR THE MONTH
Make Your Neighborhood a
Better Place
Create a neighborhood beautification team,
and come up with ways to make your
neighborhood a better place.
Here are some ideas to get you started:
Clean up an area park, and make it a
monthly project.
Start a neighborhood garden where
you can grow flowers, fruits and
vegetables to share with your
neighbors.
Build a neighborhood compost pile to
reduce waste and provide fertilizer for
your garden.
Plant a tree(s).
Create a neighborhood-wide
campaign to plant flowers and
greenery in yards to attract butterflies,
hummingbirds and other wildlife.
March 2015 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Plant A Flower Day
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
World Forestry Day
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
World Water Day
Earth Hour
8:30 p.m.
29 30 31
April 2015
Water Month
ACTIVITY FOR THE MONTH
Make a Rain Barrel
Instead of letting rain water wash away,
collect it and use it! You can wash the car
or pets, use it for watering your garden or
plants and many other things.
What You’ll Need:
Large plastic trash bin or
container with a lid
Spigot
Drill
Mesh
Directions:
1. Use a large plastic trash bin with
a lid – the larger the bin, the
more water you can collect!
2. Attach a spigot close to the
bottom of the trash bin with a
drill. This will help you access the
water for filling up a bucket.
3. For rainwater to get in, you can
either filter the rainwater from the
gutter on the side of your house,
or cut a hole in the lid and place
mesh over it to keep leaves and
other debris out of the bin.
April 2015 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Earth Day Arbor Day
26 27 28 29 30
National Environmental Education Week
National Volunteer Week
May 2015 Gardening Month
ACTIVITY FOR THE MONTH
Make an Indoor Garden
If you are short on space at your school,
have each classroom create their own
indoor garden.
What You’ll Need:
Pots
Potting soil
Seeds (beets, carrots, lettuce,
onions, radishes, herbs, etc.)
Grow light and/or space in a
window with sun exposure
Directions: Have the children plant the seeds and be
responsible for watering them and
monitoring their growth. Each classroom
can grow different items, and then put
them all together for a healthy meal the
kids can enjoy.
May 2015 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
National Public
Gardens Day
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Strawberry
Picking Day
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31
June 2015 Sustainable Vacation Month
ACTIVITY FOR THE MONTH
Plan a Sustainable Vacation
Traveling is fun for the whole family, but
it can also be rough on the
environment. Before you take off on an
adventure, take some time to plan a
sustainable escape.
Here are a few tips to get you started:
Plan your itinerary with the shortest
routes to save fuel and help
reduce your footprint. Also, try to
carpool if several people are
going.
Pack your meals to save money on
the road, and make sure to put
them into reusable containers.
Choose hotels and restaurants that
have environmentally friendly
practices (not washing the
towels/sheets daily, serving local
food, etc.)
Learn about the heritage and
culture of the area you are
visiting.
Buy local.
June 2015 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
1 2 3 4 5 6
World Environment
Day National Trails Day
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
World Oceans Day
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
International Picnic
Day
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30
July 2015 Recycled Art Month ACTIVITY FOR THE MONTH
Create Recycled Artwork
There are tons of arts and crafts you can
do with everyday items. Here are some
suggestions, but be creative and make
art out of your trash!
Instead of buying a new lunchbox
for school, make one. Take an
old metal or plastic lunchbox,
and create and glue on a
collage out of old magazine
pictures.
Make a shoebox guitar by
covering an old shoebox with
recycled paper and decorating
it. Attach a paper towel tube to
one end, and decorate it. Then,
cut a hole in the top. Stretch
rubber bands across the hole,
and play away.
Use plastic bottles, bottle caps,
tissue boxes, toilet and paper
towel rolls, newspapers, etc. to
build fun and exciting things.
July 2015 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
World Population
Day
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31
Consider using REUSEABLE food and drink containers instead of paper plates and plastic cups when packing for a summer picnic!
ACTIVITY FOR THE MONTH
Make Your School Greener
Everything from buying the right back to
school supplies and using Ebooks to
recycling at school and using less
electricity can help your school be more
“green.” Start an environmental club,
and figure out ways your school can
make a difference. Then, enter the Good
Sports Always Recycle School Challenge
and win money to support your program!
Electronic books are steadily
growing for many schools around
the country. Instead of buying print
textbooks, ask your teacher about
online text sources, or e-books. This
saves trees as well as money by
lowering the demand for printed
textbooks.
Discuss online school work with
your teacher. Using email to give
and turn in assignments will save
paper and may help your teacher
too!
When shopping for school supplies,
look for recycled notebooks and
paper goods. This will help reduce
the demand for manufactured
notebooks and will help conserve
trees.
August 2015 Green School Month
August 2015 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
International
Homeless Animals
Day
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Earth’s First
Photograph Taken
from the Moon(1966)
30 31
Eat Outside Day
When shopping for school supplies this month, look for GREEN or eco-friendly products!
September 2015 Environmental Month
ACTIVITY FOR THE MONTH
Environmental Games
Have students divide into teams, and
then create environmental games
that the class can play. The games
will help students learn about how
they can have an impact in a fun
and creative way. The games could
also include challenges for students to
clean up the school and make it
greener.
September 2015 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
1 2 3 4 5
National Wildlife
Day
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
World Ozone Day
World Water
Monitoring Day
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
First Day of Autumn
27 28 29 30
National Crush
A Can Day
ACTIVITY FOR THE MONTH
Sustainable Halloween Décor
Instead of purchasing more
decorations, make your own recycled
Halloween décor this year. Here are
some ideas to get you started.
Milk Jug Ghosts: Take your old
milk jugs and draw ghost faces
on one side with black sharpies.
Cut a hole in the back, and insert
lights for a ghostly luminary.
Mummies: Take your old boxes
(cereal, crackers, granola bars,
etc.) and wrap them in a white,
ripped sheet or even toilet paper.
Glue googly eyes on one side,
and you have mummy
decorations.
Egg Carton Pumpkins: Cut the
egg “cups” out of the carton.
Paint the outside orange, and
cut a hole in the top of one.
Insert a green pipe cleaner for a
stem (or other green item), and
glue the two together to form a
pumpkin shape. Draw a face on
one side, and you have a
recycled Jack-O-Lantern.
October 2015 Recycling Month
October 2015 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Make A Difference
Day
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Halloween
Make Your Mark Week
November 2015 Sustainability Month
ACTIVITY FOR THE MONTH
Help the Community
Begin a “Help the Community” corner in
your classroom. In this corner, the
class can begin collecting items such as
trash bags and plastic gloves to use
for picking up litter at the local park, or extra
dog and cat food to be taken to
the local animal shelter.
Giving back to the community helps create
a sustainable community, and by working
together, your class can make a difference.
November 2015 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Take a Hike Day
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Veterans Day World Kindness Day
15 16 17 18 19 20 21 America Recycles
Day/Use Less Stuff
Day
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Sustainability Day
29 30
December 2015 Green Shopping Month
ACTIVITY FOR THE MONTH
Go Green Shopping
As you are shopping for the perfect
holiday presents, keep in mind that what
you buy affects the environment. Go
“green shopping” and buy products that
will help save natural resources, conserve
energy and prevent waste.
The following are some tips to consider:
Buy recycled! Every time you
purchase a recycled product that
means more and more natural
resources are being saved. Buying
recycled products is easy – simply
look for the labels.
Buy durable, long-lasting products
like rechargeable batteries
Instead of disposable ones that
can be wasteful.
Avoid excess packaging. Don’t
buy anything that’s overly
packaged – it’s too much of a
waste. Instead, buy products with
reusable or recyclable packaging.
Buy energy-efficient items. When
buying TV’s, DVD or CD players,
look for the ENERGY STAR logo. It’s
a program designed to promote
energy-efficient products.
Take your own reusable bags.
Buy local.
December 2015 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
1 2 3 4 5
Eat a Red Apple
Day
International
Volunteer Day
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 30
Don’t forget to recycle your holiday decorations and waste!