{"id":13908,"date":"2020-05-06T19:05:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T19:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/?p=13908"},"modified":"2020-05-06T19:05:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T19:05:41","slug":"earth-school-has-been-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/06\/earth-school-has-been-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth School has been Launched!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Earth School is a free, high quality educational content aimed to help teachers, parents and students who are currently at home due to the COVID-19 crisis. Earth School is a 30 day journey through the natural world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earth School was launched on\u00a0Earth Day\u00a0on April 22 and will conclude on\u00a0World Environment Day\u00a0on June 5.\u00a0There are daily adventures, or Quests, each organized around the theme: \u201cThe Nature of\u2026\u201d While the initiative is hosted online, the Quests are very much designed to encourage young people to connect with nature and their environment.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was initiated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/\">UNEP<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ed.ted.com\/\">TED-Ed<\/a> in collaboration with many incredible partners and is supported globally by 50 collaborating institutions including \u2013 including National Geographic, BBC Ideas,  WWF, Conservation International, the Nature Conservancy  and IUCN. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bill Nye<\/strong> (\u201cthe Science Guy\u201d) and <strong>Greta Thunberg<\/strong> are also planning to engage in the social media outreach effort. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/ed.ted.com\/earthschool.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"TED - Earth School (opens in a new tab)\">TED &#8211; Earth School<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also check them on social media at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Twitter:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>@UNEP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>@TED_ED<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facebook:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>@UNEP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>@TedEducation<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instagram:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>@unep<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>@tededucation<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Linkedin:<\/strong> (to explore if it merits setting up a dedicated page)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>@ted-ed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>@un environment programme<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth School is a free, high quality educational content aimed to help teachers, parents and students who are currently at home due to the COVID-19 crisis. Earth School is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13911,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13908\/revisions\/13911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}