Classroom Tips

• Use materials from last year and encourage your students to do the same.

• At end of the year, gather materials and get them ready to be reused, renewed or recycled for next year vs. trashed.

• Look for products that use recycled paper made from high percentages of post-consumer waste.

• Implement a second chance paper rule – encourage all to use both sides of a piece of paper.

• Use felt on bulletin boards vs. paper as its sturdy and wont fade. You will be able to use it for many years!
• Challenge students to have no waste days (reuse or carry out as much as possible - lunch, papers, drinks, etc.)

• Encourage walk, bike, carpooling to school

• Have book lists available for students that are eco related

• Physically turn over garbage cans so to remind folks to think about what is and isn’t trash.

• Have kids make PSAs about green initiatives to share with others students (i.e. litter-less lunch)

• For classroom events reduce disposable food ware when possible by asking parents to use reusable plates & utensils. More info at our SMART Event Guide here.
• Ask students to share their “green play of the day/week” – eco acts of kindness
• Encourage students to write to Wellesley and State officials about environmental issues they have studied and care about like these students at Bates School did.