Hello,
My name is Dawn & at the moment I am planning a new curriculum for primary scools here in Israel- on the solid waste problem. I need ideas on fostering school kids activism in school and at home. If you could refere me to specific material on the Web- this would be great... If you have ideas 4 classromm activities etc
Thank you so much
Dawn Hanen
Project Manager "Community & the Environment "
424847-0544
Ideas for Waste Curriculum
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Dear Dawn:
This may be of interest for your curriculum project. http://www.glassworks.org/kidsnet/default.html
Hi Dawn-
Keep America Beautiful has "Waste in Place"; a curriculum guide you may find useful http://www.kab.org/programs.asp?id=50&rid=75
Cheers
Kelly Heisz
Executive Director
St. John's Clean and Beautiful
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Keep America Beautiful has a very good K -12 curriculum: Waste In Place. It is continuously updated, but the bones have stood the test of time! They have a Web site at: www.kab.org
Susan Young,
Director Minneapolis Solid Waste and Recycling Services
KAB Affiliate
The Auckland regional council has very good resources for teachers with programmes such as Waste and Recycling, Tread Lightly on the Earth and A Word on Waste. Visit arc.govt.nz and click on the 'education' button.
Regards
Carol
Carol Young
Secondary Facilitator in Science and Environmental Education
TEAM Solutions
Faculty of Education University of Auckland
ph 09 6238880 ex 418329
Mobile 0275 790151
www.teamsolutions.ac.nz
This is a story I heard from Alyson Slater, Associate Director of Global Reporting Initiative. When she was six years old, she went to a summer camp with 60 other kids. The Camp Director addressed all of them on the first day and told them about the wasteful Orts and how it wasn't cool to be an Ort. The Director told them that they could take as much food as they could eat, but not to take any more than they could eat. At the end of each day they scraped all wasted food and weighed it in front of the whole camp. The first day there was 120 pounds of wasted food. Total waste was ceremonially measured and reduced each day such that at the end of one week the waste was less than 20 pounds.
regards,
JR
JR Fulton, RA,
LEEDTM AP Project Manager
Capital Projects University of Washington
phone: (206) 221-7468
fax: (206) 543-1277
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Dawn - and others -
I would recommend looking at the web site for the Go Green Initiative. This is a school-based program that encourages all parts of the school community, teachers, students, parents, and staff, to get involved in many environmentally sound activities. The web site is gogreeninitiative.org.
Marjorie Torelli
Western Finger Lakes Solid Waste Management Authority
Lyons, NY