Goddard School Turns Off Lights for Earth Hour 2012

The Goddard School, located in Arnold, will be participating in a nationwide effort to conserve energy next weekend.

Located at 1 E. Joyce Lane off Ritchie Highway, the school is in its first year, . It teaches children between the ages of 6 weeks and 6 years old. 

From the press release:

The Arnold school will join with more than 380 other Goddard Schools nationwide in a week of learning activities about saving energy and the environment.

Beginning on Monday, students will begin their studies on energy and the environment. The week will culminate with a big flip-the-switch event on Friday at 10 a.m., a day before the global Earth Hour event, when Goddard Schools will turn off any non-essential lighting for one hour.

The worldwide Earth Hour event will take place on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in each local time zone. Hundreds of millions of people around the world will turn off their lights for one hour in a global call to action on climate change.

At schools around the nation, Goddard School children and their teachers will participate in a variety of fun activities, games and lessons designed to increase their awareness of how energy use and daily activities can affect the future of the planet and how they can conserve energy in their daily lives.

“The Earth Hour event is a very real and visible demonstration of the power of grassroots commitment,” said Sue Adair, director of education at Goddard Systems, Inc. “Working with the children in the week before the event will help them understand the significance of Earth Hour to feel that they are a part of a worldwide effort. It will also help share the message about this important initiative with their families and their communities.”

To learn more about the Stepping Up for the Environment event, parents are encouraged to visit www.goddardschool.com/green.