Go Green

Objective:

The environment provides us countless benefits that can hardly be repaid during our lifetime. It is highly important that we create awareness among the children to take small steps that will go a long way in protecting and preserving the same for the posterity.

‘Go green’, as a group activity, intends to develop in them deep concern for the environment.

Related Values:

• Awareness
• Empathy
• Love for nature
• Decision making
• Responsibility
• Good citizenship

Materials Required:

1. Two sets slips
2. Set A – How are we polluting the environment?
3. Set B – How can we protect the environment
4. A black bin
5. A green basket

How to Play

1. The Guru splits her class into two groups and makes them stand in two rows face to face.
2. She keeps the black bin and the green basket in the front of the children.
3. She distributes all the 20 slips among the children.
4. She then explains the activity to the children that one by one, each has to to read out the message on his slip loudly and decide where to put the slip, either in the black bin or the green basket, based on what is written on his slip.
5. For example: The Guru reads out one of the slips- ‘using plastic bags’ and throws it in the black bin. Another slip reading- ‘fixing a leaky tap’ is placed lovingly in the green basket.
6. At the end of the activity, the children learn ways to avoid polluting and begin protecting the earth as every little act on their part will go a long way in safeguarding the environment and preserving its pristine glory.

LIST

Black bin – Polluting the environment

1. Use of plastic bottles
2. Honking
3. Stubble burning in fields
4. Soil erosion
5. Loud speakers during midnights
6. Oil spills in oceans
7. Smoking
8. Keeping tap open while brushing
9. Poaching
10. Smoke from factories
11. Deforestation
12. Polluting rivers

Green basket – Protecting the environment

1. Using recycled products
2. Use of cloth bags
3. Fixing leaking tap
4. Gifting saplings
5. Use of dustbins in public places
6. Using CNG vehicles
7. Turning off lights when not in use
8. Saying NO to crackers
9. Shorter showers
10. Growing trees in neighborhoods
11. Unplug unused electronic devices

Tips to the Gurus:

The Activity may be supplemented with a group discussion and Attitude Tests. For example:

On your friend’s birthday you wish to give her a)A costly gift b) A sapling c) A book on environment.