Spend time outside learning about plants and animals to celebrate Earth Day Wednesday, April 22, 2020 is Earth Day! Normally there are different ways to celebrate Earth Day through community-led events, but this year, everything looks a little different. Because we are still social distancing, I wanted to list a few ideas of how you can celebrate Earth Day and Earth Week this year. 1. Trash cleanup: go to a nearby park and spend an hour picking up trash (using gloves, of course). Have you ever driven or walked by an area in your neighborhood and seen litter? Now is the time to grab a trash bag and some gloves and pick it up! Your actions may inspire your neighbors to clean up some trash, too. 2. Participate in the City Nature Challenge , which will take place on April 24, 2020. Check out the website and see if your city is participating. Then, spend April 24-27 taking photos of plants and animals. April 28-May 3 is part two, in which citizen scientists (that's you!) spe...