About the Event:

When: Saturday, April 23rd, 10am-3pm

The Captain Planet Foundation joins the Chattahoochee Nature Center and environmental groups from around Atlanta for day!  Participants will enjoy hands on activities focused on all aspects of Earth Day, visiting education stations, making arts and crafts and seeing displays from a wide variety of environmental organizations, nature centers and education organizations.  REI will hold a canoe demonstration on the pond.

Then from 11am-12:00 pm, join Linda Marie Johnson, a Dekalb County Elementary Music Specialist and professional vocalist, for a program called "In Concert with Nature".  She'll present a delightful program of songs about nature. Be prepared for audience participation and guest appearances by CNC's resident wildlife. 

Enjoy the following groups and activities:

Atlanta Audubon Society will explore what birds call Georgia home as well as how kids and adults can help protect our feathered friends. 

Center for Health, Environment and Justice invites kids to consider who their environmental hero is and learn how they can earn a Green Flag and make their school environmentally healthy.

Chattahoochee Nature Center will showcase it's native, non-releasable wildlife including animals from turtles to hawks!  Hike the grounds of CNC where you will discover wildlife and wildflowers throughout the day! 

Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area will explore the wetlands along the Chattahoochee River.  Kids will discover the plants and animals that call these areas home and even make a beaver mask to wear and take home.

Diamond Go-Sti is a Cherokee Educator and Native Culturist. Kids learn how Native Americans lived 300 years ago by visiting his teepee to see fire-making, cooking, crafts, drumming and artifacts. Diamond is an ambassador for his people and represents them with honor and dignity while sharing how Native People touched the earth in harmony and balance.

Dunwoody Nature Center explores insect and bugs where they will see the difference between insects and other bugs, play What's an Invertebrate Game, discover an insects life cycle and discuss the effects of pesticides on our pollinating friends! 

Elachee Nature Science Center will bring their amazing fossil collection for youth participants to see and touch actual dinosaur fossils such.

Friends of Hyde Farm will have fun in the dirt with gardening activities!  Kids can plant vegetable seeds to take home and explore what farm life was like at Hyde Farm and how they can help protect this piece of Georgia Heritage. 

Georgia Kids Against Pollution invites youth to come and share their perspective on environmental issues, participate in a kid's town hall meeting and add a new leaf to the "Tree of Life."

Georgia Museum of Natural History and the Entomology Department at UGA takes us bug hunting and provides opportunities for kids to explore tree logs for native insects and examine them under microscopes.

Georgia Project WET and Adopt A Stream will explore the workings of how we get clean water to drink through participation in recreating a waste-water treatment plant.

GreenearthTV gives kids the chance to write, host and shoot their very own environmental TV show. Kids will be asked what they can do to motivate their friends and family to clean up the environment and make a healthier world.

Hawks Slide will be set-up on the meadow for kids slip and slide as fast as a Hawk!

In Concert with Nature will delight young and old when Linda Marie Johnson, a Dekalb County Elementary Music Specialist and professional vocalist, presents a delightful program of songs about nature.

Keep Alpharetta Beautiful will have fun recycling with kids as they learn the importance of the 3 R's! 

National Wildlife Federation will lead kids in fun wildlife crafts and activities to teach families how to develop a wildlife sanctuary in their own backyards.

Paddle Georgia will explore with participants the Chattahoochee River and the trip that will be taken in June.  A great introduction to exploring 110 miles of the Chattahoochee between Buford Dam and Franklin, Georgia. 

Reef Ball Foundation and Eternal Reefs, Inc. offer kids the chance to paint a reef ball!  Artificial reef balls are placed in the ocean as a way to rebuild our damaged reef system.

REI has partnered with some of the top boat manufacturers to "Boat Before You Buy." Try out boats from Dagger, Old Town, Mad River Canoe, Wilderness Systems, and Ocean Kayak. REI paddling experts will be on hand to assist on the water.

Southface Energy Institute helps kids realize the importance of renewable energy by having them construct solar ovens using pizza boxes, construction paper, foil, plastic and non-toxic glue. Kids get to cook and sample pizzas made in their solar ovens.

Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper  will teach children about watersheds, testing water and about the Chattahoochee River. They will learn how to be pollution detectives through conducting hands-on water quality tests. Fun multimedia activities connect environmental history, hydrology, ecology, and water quality. Follow the journey of a raindrop through an interactive tour.