Middle and High School Students Waste Reduction Campaign

There is also a great program in Kentucky called Green and Healthy Schools (it just won a national award!). the website is www.greenschools.ky.gov. It has 9 inventories with questions for students to research including waste reduction, energy, and hazardous chemicals. It also has loads of resources and ideas for improvement projects.

Good Luck!
Amy Sohner

Executive Director
Bluegrass PRIDE
www.KentuckyPRIDE.com

This may be a little bit out of date, but Washington State has "A-Way With Waste" curriculum that may give you some ideas. http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/air/aawwaste/awwwhome.html

Good Luck!
Megan Warfield

Litter Programs Coordinator
WA State Dept. of Ecology 

Hi Gabrielli,

Have a look at the Resource Smart Schools Site tat Sustainability Victoria has established. You will find it at: http://www.resourcesmart.vic.gov.au/for_educators/how_to_start.html

Cheers
John

John Osborne
Renewables, Sustainability Victoria
T: 03 8626 8783 
F: 03 9663 1007 
Level 28, Urban Workshop,
50 Lonsdale Street,
Melbourne 3000

The King County Solid Waste Division has quite a few resources that might be useful. If you go to http://your.kingcounty.gov/solidwaste/education/index.asp and look at both the "assistance to school facilities" pages, you can find lists of actions or criteria for becoming a green school. If you click on the secondary programs pages, you will get to this page http://your.kingcounty.gov/solidwaste/secondaryschool/gtworkshops.asp where you can download campaigns to start or improve paper recycling or plastic bottle reduction and/or recycling. Both of these include conducting an audit. Another great resource is the Cool School Challenge site, which gives checklists to audit their school's energy use. Additional curriculum tie-ins are also available. Visit http://www.coolschoolchallenge.org/

Jennifer Howell

Jennifer Howell,
Vice President Triangle Associates, Inc.
811 1st Avenue, Suite 255
Seattle, WA 98104
206-583-0655 phone
206-200-7488 cell
www.triangleassociates.com

Addendum to previous message: See NEED's resource catalog that includes curricular materials, booklets on games & activities, kits, ETC. on energy topics & issues for primary, elementary, intermediate, secondary levels. http://www.need.org/needpdf/Catalog.pdf

Marilyn Sobanski

Rainbow Recycling
P.O. Box 1286
Black Mountain, NC 28711
(828) 669-5459
[email protected]

The Triple StaRs Grade 4 Waste Reduction Challenge is offered in celebration of Waste Reduction Week. It's meant for grade 4 classes, but it may spark some ideas: www.recycle.ab.ca/wrw

Heather

Heather Wheeliker
Coordinator, Waste Education
Alberta Environment Education & Outreach Section
Tel: (780) 427 - 5452
Fax: (780) 422 - 4086
e-mail: [email protected]

Mailing address:
Main Floor, Oxbridge Place 9820 - 106 Street
Edmonton, Alberta T5K 2J6
http://environment.alberta.ca/

"Museum of Solid Waste & Energy" by the NEED Project

A guide for teachers to assist students, Gr. 6-12, on creating "museum stations" (exhibits) on eight waste-recycling topics. Notes relevant national science standards, has excellent background material.. An excellent resource for anyone doing educational work on the topics. Other guides available also as noted below. We have found these materials very useful.

The NEED Project National Energy Education Development Project
8408 Kao Circle, Manassas, Virginia 20110
Phone: 703.257.1117
Fax:703.257.0037
[email protected]
http://www.NEED.org/
Trash Flipbook Primary Talking Trash
Elem Museum of Solid Waste & Energy Gr 6-12

Marilyn Sobanski

Rainbow Recycling
P.O. Box 1286
Black Mountain, NC 28711
(828) 669-5459
[email protected]

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