The document outlines the structure and functions of Earth Clubs in schools as part of the Young Earth Leaders Programme. Key points include: - Earth Clubs will be formed in classes 6-9 with two teacher mentors and 8 student leaders selected democratically based on interest. - Club activities will take place over 9 months including monthly meetings and activities selected from the handbook during periods like art/craft. - Roles include the headmaster overseeing the club, mentors attending training and supporting activities, and members participating in awareness, planting, celebrations and sharing experiences. - Activities focus on hands-on experiences like planting, maintaining gardens, assemblies, displays and observing environmental days.

1. School Earth Clubs
Young Earth
Leaders
Programme
Department of School Education
Government of Telangana
Council for Green Revolution
An Environmental Organisation
www.cgrindia.org
STRUCTURE
AND
FUNCTIONS
Dr N Sai Bhaskar Reddy
Director, Council for Earth Leadership and
Sustainability (CELS), The Earth Center

2. ..by
Children
..for
Future
Empower young people to become
agents of change..
Young Earth Leaders Programme is
for the emergence of leadership in
children.
For Sustainable Development

3. Earth Club Structure and
Functions
◆ The headmaster shall act as Chairman of the
club.
◆ Two teachers from the school to lead the
programme as Earth Leaders Mentors
◆ Two children from each class (8 in total) will be
led by Earth Leaders to facilitate the activities in
each class.
◆ In Co-education schools, out of two children per
class as lead Earth Leaders there would be a boy
and girl student. The teachers should select the
earth leaders in the classroom in the democratic
way based on their interest and enthusiasm.

4. Earth Club Structure
and Functions
◆ All children of classes 6th to 9th will be
the Earth Leaders of The Earth Club.
◆ The Earth Club activities will spread over
the academic year from June to February of
the academic year. i,e about 9 months in an
academic year.
◆ The Earth club leaders (8 +2 members)
shall conduct monthly meetings preferably
on the first Saturday or on the Bala Sabha
day and a total number of meetings are 9 in
number in an academic year i.e., from June
to February. The mentors to support earth
leaders to conduct the monthly meetings.

5. Earth Club Structure
and Functions
◆ A list of activities to be conducted to improve
the climate and environment is given in this
handbook. The club will select the activities for
each class in presence of teachers to conduct
during the academic year.
◆ The teachers and club leaders guide the
classroom to implement the activities through
the children in the school.
◆ The activities of the club may be conducted
during the periods such as: co curricular period
art and craft, value education and life skills or
during before and after school hours as per
their convenience. It can be four periods per
month and a total of 36 periods in the year.
Each period spans 45 minutes to an hour.

6. Earth Club Structure
and Functions
◆ A newsletter will be published with the
activities of the Earth Clubs of various
schools. The hard copies will be circulated to
the schools in a limited number. E-copies will
be made available to all other schools and
educational institutions.
◆ The Earth club activities will be presented
and displayed at District, State and National
level meets i.e., National Science day,
Science fairs, etc.
◆ The Earth leaders doing excellent work in
their school shall be considered for exposure
visits to within and outside the state.

7. Earth Club Structure and
Functions
◆ A display board will be arranged in every school
where children can display their works and
collections on the display board, such as children’s
writings on environment in the form of poems,
narratives, drawings and newspaper cuttings from
the local newspapers, magazines related to
environment and climate change. They can display
earth club activities and earth news. These displays
shall be kept for one or two weeks and will be
removed and kept in the school library in the form
of booklets.
◆ The clubs shall endeavour to share
environmental and nature related news during
school assembly / prayer time.

8. Earth Club Structure
and Functions
◆ The club shall implement a calendar of events and
must observe 3 to 4 important environmental days.
Such as :
» 22 March-World Water Day
» 22 April-Earth Day
» 5th June-World Environment Day
» 28 July-World Nature Conservation Day
» 30th August-Vriksha Bandhan
» 4th October-World Animal Day
» 5th December-World Soil Day
» 14th December-National Energy Conservation Day

9. Roles and
responsibilities: State
School Education Dept
Issue proceedings to the DEOs
for the formation and
facilitation of Earth clubs to
nurture earth clubs in the
identified schools and conduct
its activities as per the
guidelines from department of
school education and council
for green revolution.

10. Roles and
responsibilities:
DEO office
KEEP DSO AS INCHARGE OF RESPECTIVE SCHOOL YOUNG
EARTH LEADERS PROGRAMME.
SELECTION OF SCHOOLS FOR FORMING AND
STRENGTHENING EARTH CLUBS WITHIN THE DISTRICT.
DEPUTE TEACHERS TO UNDERGO INDUCTION TRAINING AS
MENTORS OF THE EARTH CLUBS @ TWO PER SCHOOL
INCLUDING HEAD MASTER.
PROVIDE SUPPORT TO THE CGR TEAM IN PLANNING,
FACILITATING, AND MONITORING THE VARIOUS ACTIVITIES
OF THE YELP.
ISSUE INSTRUCTIONS TO THE SCHOOLS FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF YELP ACTIVITIES AS PER THE
HANDBOOK AND MONITOR ITS IMPLEMENTATION.

11. Roles and
responsibilities: School
Headmaster
She / he will act as a chairperson of the Earth
Club, select two teachers from the schools
for acting as mentors of EC and provide
necessary guidance and support for the
implementation of YELP in school.
Maintain school earth club activity display.
Review of implementation of YELP activities.
Allocate timings for YELP activities from such
as - No bag day, school assembly, Balasabha,
Art & Craft and other co curricular periods.

12. Roles and
responsibilities:
Teachers (Earth
club Mentors)
Attend two-day induction training for YELP, covering
topics such as formation and strengthening of Earth
Clubs, mentor roles and responsibilities, and
mentorship activities.
Attend
Form Earth Clubs, select leaders @ 2 per class i.e.,
one boy and one girl, and organize prioritised
activities for each class based on the handbook and
annual calendar prepared.
Form
Provide support to the District Education Office
(DEO) and CGR in organizing state and district-level
events.
Provide

13. Roles and responsibilities: Earth club Leaders
Undergo induction training for one day on Earth Club formation and its activities, roles and responsibilities of
leaders, etc meetings with
earth club leaders once in every 15 days to chalk out the programs
to be conducted ton the classrooms and to maintain display
boards and activities in the assembly, Bala sabha, school days, etc.
Work closely with Earth Club members from respective classes in
conducting regular meetings, motivating members and supporting
mentors in conducting activities as per annual calendar.

14. Roles and
responsibilities:Earth
club members
Earth Club members are the students of
classes 6th to 9th.
All the children in the class will be the
members and will actively participate in all
the activities such as: awareness, plantation,
observing international days, experiential
learning activities, exposure visits,
competitions, sharing experiences for
newsletters and more.

15. Nature of Activities
Based on this handbook earth clubs in each school should
adopt the following strategies for implementation.
Type of strategies – Class wise / school wise
» Performing the activities such as planting the trees, compost
pits, water recharging pits, maintaining school garden / kitchen
garden, preparing biodiversity registers.
» Demonstration of good habits, which are pro environmental
» Hands on experience – Children engage in the work such as
watering the plants, maintaining the garden and other
activities.
» Adaptation and practice – adopting certain trees at school
and in the community.
» Discussion and debate – special debates pm the topics within
the class or as whole school activity on the topics related to
topic change and role of the students to address it. (Certain
topics and issues given in the handbook).

16. Nature of Activities
» Assembly time sharing – talk on environmental related issues
as one of the important item in the school assembly.
» Display board – Every school must maintain a display board
where children display their works such as poem, story, drawing
and painting, paper cuttings from newspapers on
environmental issues, etc.
» Balasabha – The earth club activities must reflect in every
Bala Sabha meeting. Small skits on environment degradation in
this impact, sharing group case studies and practices, singing
poems, stories, sharing good practices, sharing feeling of
maintaining and planting trees and gardens, etc. which are
relevant to YELP

17. Earth Leaders Pledge
Oh Mother Earth,
I am ever grateful to you,
You are the reason for existence.
For the sustainability of earth,
I adopt a Lifestyle for environment
Using fewer natural resources
I live on this Earth
With sensitivity, compassion and responsibility
Towards all life and resources
I will strive to leave this earth
A livable and sustainable
For the generations to come