This document contains information about sustainability and caring for the environment. It includes definitions of sustainability, descriptions of problems with traditional models of sustainability, examples of science concepts taught in kindergarten that relate to sustainability, instructions for an observe-wonder-learn activity about owls and the environment, and a historic poster encouraging people to "give a hoot, don't pollute." It also provides links to videos, texts, and activities about reducing waste, adopting a road to clean up, and being sustainability superheroes.

1. SustainabilitySuperheroes.org
Celebrate #EarthDayEveryDay
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better, it's not. Lorax
Dkozdras@usf.edu #CokeGivesBack

2. #cokegivesback

3. Sustainability SuperheroesSustainability SuperheroesSustainability Superheroes

4. U.N. Definition of Sustainable
Development
In 1987, the UN Brundtland Commission
defined sustainable development as:
"meeting the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs."
(Report of the World Commission on
Environment and Development.)

5. Sustainability: Triple Bottom Line

6. Solutions for Sustainable Development

7. Problems Not Included in Traditional Circular
Economy Model: Scarcity and Externalities
Kindergarten Econ
-Wants and Needs
-People work to buy
things they want and
need

9. Physical Science: Recognize that the shape of
materials such as paper and clay can be changed
by cutting, tearing, crumpling, smashing, or rolling.
Properties of matter: Sort objects by observable
properties, such as size, shape, color,
temperature (hot or cold), weight (heavy or light)
and texture.
Life Science: Recognize the five senses and
related body parts.

10. OWL
Observe: Owl book
Wonder: Questions about
protecting the earth
Learn: what did you learn?
https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/conservationeducation/smokey-woodsy/woodsy-
owl/activity-guide

11. Historic Primary
Sources:
Give a Hoot
DESCRIPTION Of the many core
responsibilities of citizenship, the most
basic has been being a “good citizen.”
The founding generation believed that
liberty and freedom could only survive if
the Republic and its people were
virtuous. For them, and still today, this
means respecting the country’s
institutions, fulfilling civic duties,
contributing to the community, and
generally being a good neighbor, such
as advertised in this 1971 public service
poster.
DATE MADE 1970s
PRODUCER Department of Agriculture
MEASUREMENTS overall: 18 1/2 in x
13 in; 46.99 cm x 33.02 cm
EXHIBITION LOCATION National
Museum of American History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZB7gSQRIuM
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_529340

12. Woodsy Owl
Lend a hand,
care for the land

13. What happens when we don’t
care for the land?

14. Engage
What do you observe?

15. OWL

16. What do you observe?
What do you wonder?

17. OWL

18. Engage Experiment
• I wonder what will happen to these items if
we bury them?
• Plant the three items
• Predictions in sustainability Superhero
notebooks.

19. Explore: A Mushy Banana

20. Explore: Pumpkin Decay

21. Explore: Recycling

22. OWL

23. Explore
• Sid the Science Kid video
• Readworks texts

24. Explain
What happened?
•What
•When
•Where
•Who

25. Evaluate: How and Why?
How did the ______ (not) change?
Why did the ______ (not) change?

26. Evaluate
• Put the garbage back on the table.
• Did we come up with enough ways to
• What would you do with these different types of garbage.

27. OWL

28. Extend Peg and Cat Estimate

29. Extend from Trash to Treasure

30. Extend
• Trash to Treasure

31. Text Set Save the Earth . . .

32. RRR Posters
http://www.seussville.com/parents/printables/conservation-recycling-signs

33. Make Your Own Tune
https://www.flocabulary.com/instrumentals/
Things don’t have
to go on this way.
We can reduce trash,
We can start right away.
Take your lunch in a bag,
but don’t throw it away.
Use the bag or a lunch box
again the next day.
Use both sides of your paper,
and I have no doubt
There will be much less paper
for you to throw out!
Rather than tossing
Your old clothes, toys, and shoes,
Donate them. They’re things
Other people can use.
Things don’t have
to go on this way.
We can ____________________
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________
Rather than_________________
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________

34. https://www.flocabulary.com/instrumentals/

35. Sustainability Superheroes Adopt-
A-Road
Problem
•Which road should our class
adopt?
Alternatives
•What are the different roads?
Criteria
•What might impact which road to
adopt?
Decision
•Which road did your class adopt?
How did you make that decision?

36. Image
Analysis
What do
I see?
What do
I think?
What do
I
wonder?

37. • What is litter?
• What problems are caused
by litter?
• What choices can you
make to help solve the
problems caused by litter?
Read the informational text.

38. Read the text.
• https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/various-littering-facts.php

39. https://www.rspca.org.uk/advicea
ndwelfare/litter
Read the text.

41. Learn about Adopt-A-Road
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?

42. Data set
What
criteria
should we
consider in
choosing
which
street to
adopt?

43. Rank the alternatives.
Guiding/reflective Questions
•Which road would be the best road to adopt?
•Why do you think that would be the best road?
•What category on the data set is the most
important to you?
•Which road would be your next choice? And after
that?
•Do you agree with your group's ideas? Why or
why not?

44. Write back to The Lorax

45. Extend the learning.
• Have student groups present their decisions to
the class and discuss how they decided which
road to adopt. Create a poster that highlights
the importance of adopting this particular road.
• Research which roads in the community are a
part of the Adopt-A-Highway program. Involve
parents to take pictures of these signs to share
in class.
• Put it to work! Plan a clean up time for a safe,
near-by area that allows students to contribute
to the community as responsible citizens.
• Substitute symbols for criteria (e.g. cars instead
of traffic lights; trash cans instead of frowny
faces)

46. The Real Lorax? From Nature.com