Skyglow
Light pollution
in the night
creates an orange
skyglow sight.
Nocturnal creatures
want to find
a place unlit by
humankind.
Please make our
streetlights only flow
with downward-pointing
lights aglow.
Or better still
have times of black
so night-time creatures
could come back.
inspired by:
LIGHT pollution is now so bad that a dull orange “skyglow” obscures the stars in more than two-thirds of the world’s crucial habitats. And we have almost no idea how this affects wildlife.
Teacher Notes by Jeanie Axton
Have a browse of the excellent resources this site offers in ideas for Earth hour
https://www.coolaustralia.org/unit/earth-hour-primary/
Poem idea: Turn the lights of and darken the room. Brainstorm Earth related words and then get students to write a poem about looking after the planet. They could display their poem in a Earth picture.