National Eco-Teacher Network Nepal

1. Does your school have a "Eco Club"?
2. Does your school have an appointed "Eco Teacher"?
3. Has your school implemented at least 2 activities from the Green School Guideline?
Inviting schools to participate in our Conservation and Education Partner - WWF Nepal's Earth Hour Nepal School innovation Challenge and win a naturalist space for your school !

The Green School Resource Handbook is available in our website
https://wcn.org.np/uploads/publication/file/GreenSchool%20Resource%20Handbook_CEHRD_WCN_NPP_compressed_20200622125357.pdf

1. Does your school have a "Eco Club"?
2. Does your school have an appointed "Eco Teacher"?
3. Has your school implemented at least 2 activities from the Green School Guideline?
Inviting schools to participate in our Conservation and Education Partner - WWF Nepal's Earth Hour Nepal School innovation Challenge and win a naturalist space for your school !

The Green School Resource Handbook is available in our website
https://wcn.org.np/uploads/publication/file/GreenSchool%20Resource%20Handbook_CEHRD_WCN_NPP_compressed_20200622125357.pdf

Please participate!!!!

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National Bhawishya STEAM Challenge is happening now at Bhrikuti Mandap Park. Do not miss to attend it.

National Bhawishya STEAM Challenge together with Wildlife Conservation Nepal (WCN)it's gonna be a lifetime experience , truly!
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Activity : Use your CDs to make tea coaster
Concept
Considere as plastics, CDs and DVDs do not recycle properly. Out of billions CDs and DVDs millions are either thrown away in the landfill sites or incinerated. The disposal of these plastics could be avoided by reusing them by making tea coaster.
Objectives
•The objective of this activity is to reuse old and unwanted CDs and DVDs.
Required materials
• Old/ unwanted CDs
• Newspapers
• Old Cloths
• Yarn
• Colors
• Glue/ Fevicol
• Scissors
• Stationary materials
• Marker/ Sketchpens
Procedure
1. Take an old CD and newspapers.
2. Cut the newspaper in a circle same as the size of the newspaper. Cut two identical pieces.
3. Paste the newspaper in each side of the CD.
4. Now, in a fresh newspaper draw a tail, fins and mouth of the fish.
5. Cut the pieces. Cut several pieces of the newspaper and paste them together to make a thick piece.
6. With the help of glue, attach the cut tail, mouth and fins in the CD prepared earlier. Sketch an eye along the CD to complete the fish.
7. Once all the pieces are attached wait until the glue is dried.
8. Now give it a color.
9. Cut a piece of a cloth in a circle less than the diameter of the CD.
10. Paste it over the CD and seal the edges with the help of yarn.

Outcomes
• A fish tea-coaster is prepared.

MAKING A HERBARIUM
CONCEPT
Human use trees and plants in almost every aspect of their life: for food, shelter, clothing, energy, decorative purpose, religious ceremonies and even in death. In addition, trees are also used widely for medicinal purposes. The medical system Ayurveda is consider the earliest source on medicinal plants in whivh the properties of drugs and their uses are given in detail.

Purpose
there are many trees that are found around homes and communities whivh have medicinal as well as other values. Its is impoprtant that we learn, undersand and appreciate them for their immense benefit to our lives. The purpose of the activity is to make students develop famlarity towards the trees round them, learn to make herbariums for proper identity, storage and information about the tree life around one's locality, research area, etc. Luca Ghini was the botanist to be credited as the inventor of the herbarium in mid 1550s.

Resources and Materials
1. Plant cutter
2. Herbarium (Chart paper), identification labels, tags.
3. Cello Tape
4. Paper bags
5. Herbarium press
6. Blotting paper
7. Old Newspapers
8. Resource book on identification of trees

Activity and Procedure
The procedure can be divided simply into three important major steps- collecting, dying and mounting. Amost all locations are suitable for herbarium collection. It can be yours school compound, school locality, home, forests, gardens, etc. However, one has to respect the owner of the land and also make sure the collection will not hamper the plants and trees there in a massive amount. It is best to pick trees that seems quite dry, and lacking surface moisture thus rainy days and early mornings are to be avoided including afternoons.

Collection
1. With the help of plan cutter, cut small branches of trees with leaves that appear free from disease and insects. Flower is one of the most important feature of the plant for herbarium collection thus its better if flowers are available.
2. All specimens should be tagged and if you know its common name write its name.
3. Make notes in an observation book about the date, location, the color of the flower and fruits and other information that you may find interesting. Draw the tree's size and shape so that you can remember it later on too.

Drying
1. Create a folder using old newspaper bundles. Gently spread the plant specimens into the sheets of the newspaper making sure both sides of the leaves are seen and there are no overlaps. Every plant specimen should have paper on both the sides. Then put some heavy weight on the folder.
2. Leave it overnight or several days, depending on the kind of specimen, change the newspaper every day, until the specimens are light and dry.

Mounting
1. Prepare herbarium sheets made out of hard white blank paper or chart paper. A herbarium measure 27.94 cm x 43.18 cm in size.
2. Tape the stems of the dried specimen onto the herbarium sheets and leave the delicate parts like flower, fruits and seeds free. Make sure both sides of leaves are shown.
3. All mounted specimen needs to be labeled. Prepare a label with the scientific name , your name, date and location of collection, the color of the flower and fruits on the bottom right of the herbarium sheets.
This completes the making of herbarium. They need to be maintained carefully. Silverfish and other insects could degrade them thus you can dter them by using repellents or keeping dried cloves or dried berries of xanthoxylum armatum (timur in nepali) with the herbariums.