Earth Week 2025
We’ll be promoting activities all week, feel free to use these themes or make up your own. Show what you’re doing on these days of the week on Twitter/X @AustinISDGreen #AISDGreen and Instagram #aisdgreen #austinisdgreen @austinisdgreen.
Active Transportation & Air Quality Activities 
Join Austin’s first-ever Kid-ical Mass Bike Ride!
The Parents’ Climate Community, Ghisallo Cycling Initiative, and Yellow Bike Project are organizing Austin’s first-ever Kidical Mass bike ride on April 26th from 9am-12pm at General Marshall Middle School. This ride is an all-ages-and-abilities 1.5-2 mile group ride around the Mueller neighborhood. Learn more and RSVP for the ride here!
Explore the environment by bike with Ghisallo!
During Earth Week 2025, share this short 6-10 minute bike safety skills presentation from Ghisallo Cycling Initiative. The presentation includes helmet fit, road safety, hand signals, and navigation skills to prepare students for riding. No lesson planning is needed and it can be incorporated during homeroom, PE class, or during an assembly.
Did you know?
The Austin ISD Transportation Department is committed to providing safe, reliable and professional service for our students, while always aiming to be as environmentally friendly as possible! We have purchased 3 Electric School Buses. We will pilot these buses to see how to best implement a plan for more electric school buses in the future. The District has a resolution to have a 100% Electric School Bus fleet by 2035 and this is the first step towards that goal! Don’t want to wait? Take a ride on one of the Capital Metro Electric Buses - ages 18 & under ride FREE!
Protect young lungs
Help reduce harmful emissions and protect young lungs with a no-idling campaign at your school! Post these signs and use these brochures in English and Spanish and these On Air Green Schools Alliance Resources to remind folks to turn the key and be idle-fee!
Be Air Smart
Purple Air sensors that monitor outdoor air quality are all over the globe, including Austin, and even some AISD schools! Check out the real-time data map and use these lesson plans to bring the data to life in the classroom through the “Be Air Smart” program.
Reduce your home's carbon footprint
Calculate your household carbon footprint to identify opportunities to reduce emissions at home. Many of our daily activities - such as driving a car, using electricity, or disposing of waste - cause greenhouse gas emissions. Together these emissions make up a household's carbon footprint.
Take a fitness break!
Take a fitness break with your favorite pro athlete. Play one-on-one with basketball star, Jewell Lloyd; show off your quick feet with soccer pro, Em Boateng, and more! Find even more activities.