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Here are some of our favorite music videos and lessons for the spring season. Learn about the relationship between wildflowers and pollinators, howl like wolf pups, and celebrate World Turtle Day and World Oceans Day. Here’s our pick of songs, videos, and companion lessons. Enjoy!
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June 8 is World Oceans Day and this year’s theme is preventing plastic pollution and encouraging solutions for a healthy ocean.
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Take the Pledge! Birdsong celebrates “World Oceans Day” with a new kids music video “Keep the Ocean Clean”
Dear Friends,
June 8 is World Oceans Day! This year, individuals and organizations all over the world are celebrating with the theme “Healthy Oceans, Healthy Planet” and are promoting prevention of plastic ocean pollution. I am participating in my musical way with our new kids song video, “KEEP THE OCEAN CLEAN -TAKE THE PLEDGE”. Please show it to your children, friends and family; and let me know what they think. Together, we can help protect our ocean for generations to come.
FREE RESOURCES:
Learn more about World Oceans Day and download their website’s free resources at: WorldOceansDay.org. The website has a a free Octonauts Resource Kit for kids. You can also hear more of our Birdsong and the Eco-Wonders ocean animal songs on our CD “IF I WERE A FISH and Other Ocean Songs for Kids” as well as on our video page.
With oceanic love,
Birdsong
Watch “KEEP THE OCEAN CLEAN” – our kids’ music video about protecting the ocean and its animals!
Listen to what the dolphins, whales, sharks, sea turtles, octopus and other ocean creatures have to say about how we can keep the ocean clean!
Love ocean creatures? Watch more of our ocean animal music videos about dolphins, octopus, gray whales, blue whales, pinnipeds, and orcas.
A Message from Oxford the Octopus
KEEP THE OCEAN CLEAN!
Coloring pages, a message from Oxford the Octopus, and a short song about keeping the ocean clean (at the very end).
READ OXFORD’S MESSAGE:
Dear Friends,
Did you know there is a section of the Pacific Ocean twice the size of the continental United States that is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? My friends at the Surfrider Foundation say that “100 million tons of plastic” swirl in that patch. There is so much plastic in the water that it outnumbers zooplankton by six to one! The bad news is that this plastic ends up in the stomachs of my friends, the marine birds and ocean animals. In fact, one million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals around the world die each year due from swallowing or getting tangled in plastic.
Turtle with plastic bag. Photo: Melbourne Zoo
Plastic is made from petroleum and it lasts almost forever. Every piece of plastic ever made is still in existence. That’s why it’s so important to me that all people try to greatly reduce their use of plastics, especially plastics we use only once and throw away. You can make a difference and help protect the ocean, beaches and my friends who live in the sea. Here are some things that you and your families can do:
1. Use reusable bottles for water and other drinks. (By using just one reusable bottle, you will keep 167 single-use plastic bottles from entering the environment.
2. Bring cloth or reusable bags to the grocery store to carry your things. (For each reusable bag you use, it will save approximately 400 plastics from being used).
3. Reuse or recycle the plastic bags you already have. (For every thirteen plastic bags you don’t use, you will save enough petroleum to drive a car one mile).
4. Learn more and share ideas with others on how to reduce plastic use.
5. Don’t litter. Ever. (But you knew that already)
6. Download and color my Eco-Wonder certificate
7. Sing along to my song “Oxford the Octopus”
8. Still want to color? Download another coloring page of mine!
Thank you for helping to keep the ocean clean. After all, the ocean is my home.
Sincerely,
Oxford the Octopus
p.s. To find out more about how to keep the ocean clean for all ocean animals, listen to to the first two verses and chorus of our song “Keep the Ocean Clean” from the CD “IF I WERE A FISH an Other Ocean Songs for Kids” by Birdsong and the Eco-Wonders. Just click on the words below:
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