Calling all students in grades K-12 and the entire Hampton Roads community, you are invited to come and celebrate our amazing planet! The ODU 2026 Earth Day theme is Planet vs Plastics!
Come celebrate Earth Day with us and see how we can make a difference!
FREE activities include interactive demonstrations by the ODU community and local community organizations.
Learn about our planet from a different view in the Michael & Kimthanh Lê Digital Theater and Planetarium shows!
Food Trucks
Free parking is available for the event in Elkhorn Ave & 43rd Street Garage.
Have questions or want to volunteer? Email oesadmin@odu.edu
Schedule
Planetarium Shows - Top of every hour (30-minute show)
- 10:00 a.m.: Climate Change in Our Backyard
- 11:00 a.m.: Tour of the Spring Sky
- 12:00 p.m.: Climate Change in Our Backyard
- 1:00 p.m.: Tour of the Spring Sky
- 2:00 p.m.: Climate Change in Our Backyard
Scheduled Activity Stations (10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.)
- Chesapeake Bay Computer Model
- Elizabeth River plankton-BEAST Camera
- OES Research Boat
- Humphrey the 55 Ft. Inflatable Whale/Baleen specimens
- Coastal Sedimentology
- Chesapeake Bay Touch Tank
- Cyanotype Activity/ ODU Photo Club
- High frequency radar measurements of ocean surface currents
- Harmful Algal Blooms
- Microscopes Environmental Microorganisms
- ODU Navy ROTC
- Plastics Impact on Insects
- A Sustainable Campus
- Watershed
- Salinity
- Forams and Microscopes
- Sediment Cores
- Future Rocks Recording the Anthropocene
- Citizen for Responsible Lighting
- Beach plastics
- Kids zone
- Coral reefs and how we can protect them
- Rehabilitated Ambassador animals
Local Organizations
- Sea Grant Virginia-Measure the Muck
- WetlandsWatch
- Elizabeth River Project
- Lynnhaven Now
- Hampton Roads Sanitation District
- Norfolk Botanical Gardens
- First Landing State Park
- Hampton Roads Planning District
- Virginia Aquarium
- Tidewater Master Naturalist
- Leave No Trace
- Nature’s Nanny Wildlife Rehabilitation