Twin Rivers Elementary School students from Mrs. Evdokimoff's grade six class were busy on Tuesday making posters for the Earth hour challenge.
The poster project was a part of the Beyond Recycling sustainable education program, which is presented Wildsight, an organization that works to maintain biodiversity and healthy human communities in the region.
The other weekly lessons have included environmental topics such as waste reduction, food sustainability, and energy consumption.
The students will be distributing the posters throughout Castlegar.
"In this week's Beyond Recycling lesson we learned about Earth Hour," wrote student Finn McIntosh. "This Earth Hour is on March 31 at 8:30 p.m. Earth Hour started in Sydney, Australia in 2007 to conserve energy for an hour. Now Earth Hour is celebrated in over 128 countries and territories and millions of people all over the world participate in this event globally. To participate, we could do as little as turning off the power for an hour and playing a board game with candles. I think I will turn off the power and read a good book."