Getting (and keeping) Your School Involved

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Here are some pointers and facts to help you keep everyone excited during the contest.



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Tips for getting the whole school involved

  • Make this a community building activity! It’s your school, not just one classroom or one person, that can make a better school/community/global environment. Get everyone involved and remind them that every action taken can either stop global warming in its tracks or make it worse.
    • Make presentations at school assemblies.
    • Get Loud!
      • Announce energy saving tips every day over the PA system.
      • Announce classrooms that have done a good job of turning their lights out, reusing their resources, recycling correctly, etc.
      • Come up with creative chants, cheers, mottos, and/or logos for the contest.
    • Bring it to the presses.

      • Include environmental information in the school newspaper and/or magazines.
      • Hand out information during breaks and lunch.
    • Create a visual reminder, likea big thermometer to show your progress. Measure numbers of bottles and cans recycled, or the number of machines that are now set to sleep, etc.
    • Talk to all your teachers about how you can incorporate activities into classroom time for the contest.
    • Have school-wide, fun events, such as a fair. Or incorporate environment-friendly elements into existing events. Does your school already hold a carnival? Meet with the people who are planning it and make sure that there will be recycling receptacles, that waste will be minimized, and so on.
    • Assign as many leadership roles and specific jobs as you can to make them more invested. For example, assign certain people to be in charge of making presentations to each classroom and/or monitoring the progress in the classroom. Make people who are involved in other activities in your town or city liaisons to businesses and agencies.
  • Get other clubs involved! Talk to them about how global warming affects them and how recycling and conserving energy will also help them specifically.
    • Get them to contribute ideas and brainstorm about specific things that they can do to help reduce, reuse, and recycle.
      • Arts clubs and art classes might use toxic materials that should be disposed of properly.
      • The band, orchestra, and sports teams might have equipment that can be recycled and swapped rather than thrown away.
      • Sports teams can make their games environment-friendly, too.
    • These clubs also have specific skills that they can add:
      • The art club can help create posters and informative flyers.
      • The drama/comedy group can put on skits for assemblies.
      • The Spanish Club can help translate information into Spanish for community members.
      • If there are other service clubs that exist, they can incorporate global warming awareness into their projects (for example, the clubs that work with younger kids can teach them about habits that are better for the environment.)
      • Think of other ways that you can appeal to specific groups and get them involved!