Live Butterflies
Inspire wonder, learning and care for the Earth. Watch live caterpillars as they become beautiful butterflies.
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Amazing Bugs
More ways to connect children to nature and science— ladybugs, moths, hornworms and more!
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Kids Care for the Earth
Saving rainforests, combating global warming—students and teachers are making a big difference!
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Green Gifts
Give yourself a gift that cares for the Earth. Our Good Green Hat for men and women is supersoft and cozy, and it's made from recycled bottles.
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Wonder
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Earth’s Birthday is celebrating our 20th anniversary in 2010! Join us in sharing wonder, learning and care with children everywhere.
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Live Butterflies
Bring learning to life! Our live painted lady caterpillars inspire children with curiosity about nature and science. Even the youngest children learn science basics as caterpillars grow, make their chrysalises and emerge transformed into beautiful butterflies. Classroom activities include careful observation, counting, measuring, comparing, scientific drawing, writing, experimenting and reporting. Help your students meet performance benchmarks in science, math, and language arts!
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Celebrate the Sunflower Challenge
Earth’s Birthday Project celebrates students who took the Sunflower Challenge in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Each one planted a seed and took care of their sunflower until it bloomed. Some grew higher than a house; others blossomed in a pot; everyone learned from giving a gift to the Earth. Take a look at all the giant sunflowers and smiling faces - join them by taking the challenge and planting sunflower seeds!
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Wonder, Learning, Care
Get involved! Earth’s Birthday Project has been helping teachers and students make a world of difference since 1989. Our Big Gift program empowers thousands of children every year to save threatened rainforest and combat global warming. Live butterflies and other insects inspire wonder and care for all of Earth’s animals and habitats. And the proceeds from our catalogs and online store support education and conservation.
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Save Rainforest
Make a difference! Join thousands of students and teachers who are raising funds to purchase and protect threatened rainforest. Our Big Gift 2010 site is the El Pangan rainforest in the Colombian Chocó—the wettest forest in the world, site of tremendous biological diversity, and an environmental hotspot that will disappear without out help. A $50 donation saves an acre and offsets 66,000 pounds of carbon pollution in the U.S.
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New! Carbon and the Arctic
Do some science… Our latest Earth Day Science Symposium is a challenging classroom activity for grades 5-8. A great way to boost science and math achievement, EDSS inspires students to engage critically with the issues and ecosystems that interest them most. The EDSS: Carbon and the Arctic teacher’s kit comes with everything you need for a 7-day mini-unit, including a colorful intro activity, data sets, giant graph paper, and easy-to-use teacher’s guide.
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New! Butterflies at Home
Parents and grandparents, you’ll love sharing butterflies and conservation with the children in your family. Our Good Green Butterflies kit comes with live painted lady caterpillars and everything a young child needs to care for them. Purchase of the kit also saves a tenth of an acre of threatened rainforest and offsets 5,000 pounds of carbon pollution to combat global warming. A fun certificate acknowledges your child’s care for butterflies and the earth.
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Good Green Things
Hats, bracelets, butterflies and more. Good Green Things help Earth’s Birthday Project protect threatened habitat and endangered species. Our Good Green Hat is a warm addition to anyone’s winter wardrobe, soft and cozy, made of recycled soda bottles by a fair-trade women’s organization. And it costs only $14.95!
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Hope for Sea Turtles
Yes! There’s still time to help save the last population of leatherback sea turtles in the Eastern Pacific. Although their nesting beach is threatened and their population has plummeted, these critically endangered sea turtles are hanging on. Make a Big Gift donation to protect mothers, eggs and hatchlings in the next nesting season.
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Earth Day Science Symposiums
A challenging classroom activity guaranteed to engage students and boost science and math skills. Topics include rainforest, sea turtles, African elephants, and the Arctic. EDSS also empowers students to make a real-world difference. In 2010, every class that does a science symposium triggers a donation from our conservation partners to save rainforest or protect turtles or elephants.
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