This year Earth Hour will take place on Saturday 28 March at 8:30pm. This annual event invites everyone to switch off the lights for an hour to show symbolic support for the planet and to raise awareness of the environmental issues affecting it.
This presents an excellent opportunity to show your students that small changes can make a big difference, so we are encouraging all our schools to run a switch-off event.
We've created two presentations that can be used with your students- one for primary pupils and one for secondary students to start the switch off conversation and activities. If you or your students take part in an Earth hour related activity, log it here and add terms "Earth hour 26' in the description and describe what you did.
In need of more ideas?
Our switch off programme includes loads of advice and useful resources, including:
You could either do this the Friday before (why not try teaching in the dark to create a learning moment?), or you could go a step further and make sure you switch everything off for the whole of the Easter break.
Our blog on
how to check your savings after the holiday will help your you and your students see if any savings were made due to their actions. You can then task a group of students - perhaps your eco-team - to look at this energy data and present the results to the whole school at assembly.