A Cleaner Today for a Greener Tomorrow

The Environmental Action Plan is:
1. Land: Students will recycle Phone Books, paper, plastic, and aluminum. Record on a weekly basis the amount of recycled items by the school before recycle truck picks up items. Record information on an Excel page and record on a line graph to post on the school website monthly. To encourage school participation, work with your school's webmasters to post the recycling information on the school web site, which includes the schedule for the recycling truck and other events? Schedule clean up events in your community, or work with Keep America Beautiful. Document all events with photos and post on line and in a class scrap book.

2. Water: Students will identify storm drains in our local school area by labeling the drains nearest to the school with decals identifying whether they lead to rivers or lakes and recording the data on an area map. Invite speakers on the topic from the local water district to share their knowledge of ground water with the students. Make a short silent movie identifying the pollution that can enter the storm drains. Then post to your school website.

3. AIR: Students will write and execute a skit on how the air is affected by incandescent light bulbs. The students will research the different bulbs, and test the bulbs against each other for durability, heat, and wattage used. Student will participate in the energy star save-the-world pledge drive and promoted ____ # of pledges. Students will monitor pledge site and post the amount of CO2 saved by the number of pledges received record information on excel and post on website.

Students will post a video copy of the skits to Youtube.