MESSAGE FOR TEACHERS ARCHIVE

January 2004

—Teachers! Craft materials don’t have to break your budget. Contact Sarah to supply your whole class with the following project materials and craft ideas for only $2 - $5 or FREE when accompanied by recycling presentation:
• Plastic 6-pk rings make great snowflakes,
• Greeting cards can be made into all sorts of little boxes and ornaments
• Eugene Celebration pins and sticky vinyl to recover and redecorate them
Other materials (poster tubes, foam cutouts) are available free or at low cost on BRING's Materials Exchange. Check it out!

—LINKS FOR KIDS:
• Environmental Explorers Club
• Biodiversity

—LINKS FOR TEACHERS
• Oregon Greens Schools certification program
• School Greening Toolkit (268KB PDF file)
• Stuff; The Secret Lives of Everyday Items classroom curriculum
• The Environmental Protection Agency provides a website for teachers including curricular materials related to waste management and recycling. They also maintain an Office of Environmental Education.
• Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality provides excellent curriculum materials and lesson plans, correlated to '03-'04 Benchmarks
• Do you have a good idea for an environmental education program or project? Detailed information for EPA programs is provided as well as contact information for other sources of funding.