Living Green Values
Activities for Children and Young Adults
A Special Rio+20 Edition
Activities for Children and Young Adults
A Special Rio+20 Edition
This resource is dedicated to the Earth in honor of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012. Rio+20 is a reference to the 20 years that have passed since the first UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio in 1992.
LVE leaders around the world are concerned about our Earth and her ocean. We would like to offer educators, parents and youth facilitators around the world these Living Green Values materials with the hope that the stories and activities will be useful to you in educating children and young adults, families and communities to internalize the importance of living sustainable lives and caring for our planet. May we all learn to live in harmony with nature and with respect and care for all.
for Children and Young Adults
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These Living Green Values activities are intended to help young people be more aware of the importance of taking care of the Earth and her resources. Part of that process is awakening love for nature and her creatures and learning about specific ways that they can help be a friend to the Earth.
The Activities for Children 3 – 7 include stories, a visualization and activities. The “Rosa, David and a Tern” stories are included as well as “A Tap that Cried”.
In the Activities for Children 8 – 14 and Activities for Young Adults, specific scientific information is included about the harmful affects of human actions on the ocean, rivers, animals, air and ground — and on human beings themselves. This information is first presented through a series of stories called the “Green Values Club”. The nine stories weave in the values of love and respect, camaraderie and helping others, and the understanding that each one of us can make a difference. Cognitive understanding of the effects of one action is amplified through an explanation of systems thinking and students charting effects with flow charts and mind maps. Educators can help empower students to take positive action and do service-learning projects through the activity ideas presented. Please add your own ideas and help them do what is most needed in the local community. A relaxation/focusing exercise is included at the end of many lessons to help the students feel safe and peaceful. Further activities and relaxation/focusing exercises can be found in the Living Values Activities books.
Enjoy doing the activities with the students! If you wish, we will be happy to post your activities and news of your outcome in our newsletter or the international website.
Thank you for helping take care of our Earth.
Living Green Values
A storybook for three- to seven-year olds
For parents and their children
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“Rosa, David and the Tern” contains three chapters about two young children who help free a little Tern. Their happiness at helping turns to amazement, discovery, action and joy as the Tern and a Blue Heron speak to them on behalf of the Earth. A delightful tale which helps children explore how they can help care for and respect the Earth, her ocean and its creatures.
Living Green Values
A book for young people eight to eighteen!
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The “Green Values Club” contains nine chapters. The story begins as Katie and George worry about their father not returning the night before. As they head out in a dinghy with their mother, they find him and his partner trying to free a whale caught in a net. Their adventure unfolds at the beach, school and city council as they learn with their friends more about the Earth, her ocean and how humans have affected the planet. The values of love and respect, camaraderie and helping others are evident in the story as is the message and reality that each one of us can make a difference.
