Happy Earth Day! Introducing Earth School

Teacher or professor: TED-Ed
Subject: Society Lessons, Environment
Content of the Lesson:Announcing the launch of Earth School, a 30 day interactive adventure for students around the world to celebrate, explore, and connect with nature. Get started: https://bit.ly/3eHexfE -- In response to the COVID-19 crisis, an unprecedented coalition has come together to launch Earth School, which provides free, high-quality educational content to help students, parents, and teachers around the world who are currently at home. Initiated by UNEP and TED-Ed in collaboration with many incredible partners (see below), Earth School brings together a 30-day adventure through the natural world. Collaborating Organizations: A range of collaborating organizations have supported this initiative through content, expertise, and promotion. They include: BBC Ideas, Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Conservation International, CEE, Earth Day Network, Earth Challenge 2020, Environment Online (ENO), GeSI, International Olympic Committee, IUCN, Institute for Planetary Security, Junior Achievement, Learning in Nature, LittleScribe, Minecraft, National Geographic Society, Ocean Wise, Only One, Royal Geographic Society, SciStarter, Sitra, TAT, The Nature Conservancy, UN Convention on Biodiversity, UN SDSN / TRENDS, UN Technology Innovation Lab, UNCCD, UNDP, UNESCO, UNFCCC, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, University of Pennsylvania, Vult Labs, World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), Wild Immersion and WWF. Quest Curators: Dozens of quest curation volunteers came forward from around the globe to contribute time, energy, and expertise to Earth School: Kathleen Usher, Camilla Leathisia Kemdji, Gregor Reisch, Alison Lowndes, Koko Warner, Richard Matthew, Steve Davis, Bill Tomlinson, Jason Switzer, Sai Anirudh Grandhi, Claudia ten Have, Juli Voss, Kathryn Sforcina, Reuben Sessa, Jessie Oliver, Hannah Moosa, Kate Ireland, Xi Marquez, Cecily Yip Chantal Robichaud, Carina Mutschele, Petter Malvik, Thierry Lucas, Lynsey Grosfield, Michal Nachmany, Pinja Sipari, Frank Sperling, Joanna Post, Lauren Weatherdon, Holly Griffin, Michael Weisberg, Essi Aarnio-Linnanvuori, Nik Hagelberg, Magdalena Noszczyk, Rachael Joakim, Terry Gunning, Charles Avis, Julie Duffus, Tim Christophersen, Gabriel Labatte, Musonda Mumba, Paivi Kosunen, Jessica Espey, Mika Vanhanen, Gaye Amus, Julie Kapuvari, Nicolas Cisneros, Anne Bowser, Jessie Oliver, Colin Bangay, Mary Ford, Annie Virnig, Naomi Kingston, Steven Ramage, Corrado Topi, Mikko Halonen, Paivi Kosunen, Janet Salem, Maria Cristina Bueti, Jenny Atkinson, Sadie Stephens, Kelly Ann Collins, Neha Raghav, Nikolas Hagelberg, Madhavi Joshi, Steph Pietras, and Malm Nordlund.


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