Canku Ota
	(Many Paths)
	An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America
	March 9, 2002 - Issue 56
	Earth Day Groceries Project
	http://www.earthdaybags.org/index.htm

Welcome to The Earth Day Groceries Project, 2002 - one of the oldest and largest educational efforts coordinated on the Internet. Earth Day is on April, 22nd (a Monday this year), so it is time to get started for the big event! The Earth Day Groceries Project is a cost-free environmental awareness project in which students decorate paper grocery bags with environmental messages for Earth Day. One of the oldest and largest educational projects on the Internet, the Earth Day Groceries Project is managed online by Mark Ahlness, a third grade teacher at Arbor Heights Elementary School in Seattle, Washington. This activity is also open to organizations other than schools. Cub Scout troops, environmental camps, after school programs, and many others have joined in before. All are welcome! The project has been featured in Weekly Reader and Science & Children magazine and is an annual favorite with thousands of teachers and students across the country and the world. To participate, check out the 4 Simple Steps. 4 Simple Steps: Borrow, Decorate, Deliver, Report 1. Borrow. Contact a local grocery store that uses large paper grocery bags. See if the manager will let you "borrow" enough bags so that each student in your school can decorate one. Let the manager know about the project and its environmental education message, of course! Grocers usually get these bags in "bundles" of 500. 2. Decorate. Have students at school decorate the bags with pictures of the earth, environmental messages, the name of your school, etc. Be creative! DO NOT allow students to write their last names on any bags. 3. Deliver. A couple of days before Earth Day you and/or your students return the decorated bags to the grocery store - with many thanks to the manager! The store then distributes these bags (full of groceries) to happy and amazed shoppers on Earth Day. 4. Report. Fill out the Report Form on the project web site with a count of how many bags your school made. Please, only one report per school. All reports will be posted on the Earth Day Groceries www site at: http://www.earthdaybags.org You do not need to sign up or register, just have a great time with the project! For more information, check the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) at http://www.earthdaybags.org/faqs.htm If you are unable to find a store that uses paper bags (but will distribute bags your school decorates), you can request paper bags from the Paper Bag Council of the American Forest & Paper Association. Fill out the form on the website. Another Idea: If you can't use paper bags, you can have your students decorate individual fliers, or even bookmarks, which can be handed out to shoppers or inserted in their shopping bags. These will be counted in the project tally, so do send in your report.

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