FIVE WAYS TO GET YOUR TICKET TO THE
Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Tickets are limited—first come, first serve. Act now!
Turn in to Festival Teacher Contact. All assignments due April 16!
1. Make a Movie.
Produce a film, 1-5 minutes long that is focused on an environmental theme of your choosing.
The Environmental theme should focus on something that you are passionate about or interested in. It can educate, inspire, activate, or just plain entertain.
Films must be submitted by no later than April 16.
All submitted films are subject to being shown at either of the Film Festival events.
2. Volunteer.
What better way to show you’re psyched to attend this event than getting involved!! The Film Festival Committee at your school will schedule a Volunteer Clean Up session. If you take part you get a ticket. Listen for announcements about the clean up.
Earth Day Planning
Attend an Earth Day planning meeting and get involved with coordinating or volunteering for the event.
Contact Aimee Rist for more details at:
AimeeLaRue@gmail.com
April 14th
11am - 7pm
Plateau Action Network
Make it Shine Stream Clean up
Help clean up a tributary to Wolf Creek on Wednesday, April 14th. Gloves, trash bags, food, & drink will be provided. Contact Levi Rose for more details at: levidrose@gmail.com
3. Picture Paragraph Assignment
Take, or get, a picture of something in nature that has been damaged and needs fixed or something beautiful which needs to be conserved and write a short paragraph or poem about your picture.
Explain your reasons for why you picked your environmental topic.
Check you grammar, spelling, etc.
Paragraph has to have a minimum of 20 words and a maximum of 45 words.
Your paragraph has to be relevant and to the point.
The picture and the written part must fit on one side of an 8.5” by 11” piece of paper. You may use colored paper and decorate it any way you like.
Behavior and attendance records may be a factor considered when choosing which students earn the ticket to go. Due by Friday, April 16.
4. Write about an Endangered Species. (150-200 words)
Write about your favorite endangered or extinct animal or Plant. Find out why it is threatened and what you would do to help this animal or plant.
Examples; dodo bird, Tasmanian devil, black footed ferret, passenger pigeon, honey bees, polar bears, golden eagles, wolves, WV elk, Kate’s Mountain clover (only found near Lewisburg, WV), tall grass prairie flowers and native grasses, native trout, Cheat Mtn. salamander, Monarch butterflies or amphibians. They are declining worldwide and no one is sure why.
Tips: Go to endangered websites to find lists of possible species to write about. Find out the estimated population when it was healthy and its numbers today. Find out where your organism lives or has lived in the past. Include pictures! Describe the organism and its habitat and any people that were involved in the recovery effort. For example song birds and Rachel Carson.
5. Write a personal essay.
Choose one of the following quotes as a jump off point for a personal essay reflecting on your feelings about nature, the environment, a variety of environmental issues, or the future of the planet. (150-200 words)
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Mead
Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves. ~ Jonas Salk , American physician and microbiologist, 1914-95
Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health. ~William L. Rathje, Atlantic Monthly, December 1989
Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
~Alan M. Eddison
...Do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth. ~ Dave Foreman
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. ~Native American Wisdom
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.~ John Muir
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. ~Theodore Roosevelt, seventh annual message, 3 December 1907
