We invite students in grades IV-VI of Mikolow elementary schools to participate in the “Blue and Green Mikolow” contest! Attractive prizes are waiting!

✅ The task of the participants is to create, on the basis of the poem “Green me – I care about the climate”, a creative work depicting the use of elements of nature in the adaptation of the nearest environment (e.g., schoolyard or backyard) to very high summer temperatures and the problem of rapid surface runoff of water.

✅ Technique of your choice!

✅ The works, together with an entry card, should be delivered to the address of the Silesian Botanical Garden in Mikołów 5 Sosnowa St., 43-190 Mikołów until 31.05.2022.

✅ The purpose of the contest is:

✔️ introduce concepts related to weather, climate, climate change,

✔️ deepen the ability to search and filter climate news,

✔️ building and developing pro-environmental attitudes,

✔️ developing the ability to observe and analyze nature,

✔️ promoting the idea of nature conservation.

“Green me – I care about the climate”.

Young people look around,

Home, kindergarten, well, and school.

Everywhere concrete is growing,

Making the rain flood the cities.

When you walk to the center

The high temperature you will soon feel.

You can no longer stand it

You have to do something quickly my friend.

Nature tells us,

what solutions it has.

Shade and wind the city needs,

What street trees give us.

Green roofs, green walls,

will give us unheard-of shade.

Water from cities escapes quickly,

which makes drought ahead of us.

Rainwater should be stored

To prepare for it.

When a downpour haunts us,

It adds water to rivers and wetlands.

Parks, flower beds, flower meadows,

Will provide a safe life for animals

It is enough to look, to search, to read

To read the solutions.

Start with yourself, shine by example,

so that others understand what’s going on.