Environmental Education in Jamaica
Seed Starters
Seed starters are a great, easy activity if you have soil and seeds. The starters pictured just use a strip of paper between two plastic cups and markers to decorate. You can make biodigradable ones too, just use half a toilet paper roll and fold the open end closed!
"The Green Grass Grows All Around" is a great song and activity that ties in music, literacy and the environment. This video is of a volunteer doing the lesson for the first time with a class of second graders. It may take a few trial runs with younger kids but be creative, add instruments, have a student lead the song, keep it dynamic! Kids were singing this song throughout the day after this lesson... I even heard a few teachers humming it!
Migration Mania Game
Line kids up along a start line and put fewer plastic bottles (or rocks or sticks etc) at the finish. Explain that many birds "migrate" to Jamaica during the winter, but they have a lot of obstacles to overcome. Narrate "You leave New York with your flock, but three of you die of starvation." take away 3 bottles and students must run, collect a bottle and return to the start. Students with no bottle are dead. Keep giving scenarios until there is one survivor. Explains survival of the fittest and why migration is important.
Wetlands Mural
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