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Hi tictechers,
What follows is the invitation I recently sent to the ednet, wwwedu, and
edtech lists. I hope to see many Seattle schools participating this year!
Please pass the word. Thanks - Mark
Mark Ahlness
mahlness@halcyon.com
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Hello all (feel free to distribute widely),
Earth Day is only two months away (April 22)! You and your school are
invited to join in on The Earth Day Groceries Project. This is a free
environmental education activity where students are empowered as
educators in their communities.
The web site: http://www.earthdaybags.org
Four simple steps:
1) a school borrows paper bags from a local grocery store
2) students decorate those bags with beautiful environmental art and
environmental awareness messages, and then return the bags to the store
3) the store distributes those bags (full of groceries) to amazed
shoppers on Earth Day
4) the school sends in a report to the project web site, documenting its
participation
No registration is required. It costs nothing to participate. All
that's needed is someone to organize the effort at your school (other
groups can participate, too!). Stop by the web site to find out more.
Even frequent participants will find new goodies: a PowerPoint
presentation, desktop wallpaper, and more.
Now in its ninth year(!), The Earth Day Groceries Project is one of the
largest and oldest educational projects coordinated on the Internet.
The project web site has complete information on participation,
thousands of inspirational reports, and hundreds of beautiful pictures.
Last year over a million pieces of art, carefully created on grocery
bags, were given away by children who cared about their Earth. In the
spirit of Earth Day, those messages will be sent out again this year.
I hope you and your school can join in. Happy Earth Day! - Mark
Mark Ahlness
mahlness@cks.ssd.k12.wa.us
Teacher, grade three at:
Arbor Heights Elementary School
http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/
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