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Green Lessons
Green lessons teach students how to live in balance with the earth. School lessons might include:
- Healthy Ecosystems: Learning about the environment and how to maintain healthy ecosystems
- Energy: Learning about energy production and how to save energy
- Water: Learning about water sources and how to save water
- Air: Learning about air quality and asthma
- Organic gardening: Learning about growing and maintaining an organic garden
- Recycling: Learning about waste streams, and how to reuse, recycle, or compost
- Composting: Learning about composting, including worm composting
Green Practices
Green child care programs uphold green practices.
These may include:
- Using asthma-safe green cleaning products
- Using plastic-free food service ware
- Diverting waste from landfills
- Teaching the 4 Rs – reduce, reuse, recycle, and rot
- Teaching children to be environmentally responsible
Eco-healthy Child Care programs agree to apply certain practices to help keep the environment free of toxins. Child care programs can seek Eco-healthy endorsement by following best practices: https://cehn.org/resources/for-parents-families-and-other-child-health-advocates/
Sources:
https://www.acgov.org/ece/green_childcare.htm
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