27 steps to start a Green Actioneers program at your school
A simple, joyful roadmap from first meeting to year-end celebration. Flip each card for the next step!
Integrate two Green Actioneers Family Nights into the school calendar, the first in the early Fall and the second on or around Earth Day.
Set up a day very early in the school year to hold a teachers meeting.
Show our introductory video at the meeting and open the floor for discussion. Go down this sheet with everyone.
Explain the program and let teachers look through a copy of the book.
Show them how to find comic book pages and songs on the website.
Play a few of the songs at the meeting, so teachers know what to expect.
Words used in this program are non-controversial and not political.
Point out that there are many connections to State Educational Standards.
Visit each classroom with a wagon full of Green Actioneers Family Action Guide books.
Go through the book and tell students how they can earn a print copy.
Explain the Green Envelope idea to them and help pass out the envelopes for them to take home.
Order enough books to provide one for each family.
Before Family Night, set up your empty chart in the hallway with one tree each for Sprout, Sapling, Mighty Oak, Majestic Redwood, Giant Sequoia.
At Family Night, collect envelopes and pass out books.
Play several songs so the assembled families can sing and/or dance.
Each book is accompanied by a sticker sheet and a sheet of badges.
Families go through the book and transfer stickers to the Action sheet.
Families print their Family Name on each badge with a Sharpie.
Families put their earned badges out in the hallway on the chart.
At the end of Family Night, play the Green Actioneers song again.
Keep the family folders in a file in the hallway near the badges so older students can help younger ones add stickers and transfer badges.
If you have a PA system that you use for morning announcements, play a different song each day corresponding with the Green Action for that day.
Every morning each room spends a few minutes discussing that song.
Set a date for a “Parade for the Planet” on or around Earth Day (April 22).
On that date hold a Parade for the Planet. Every student carries a sign made from a piece of scrap cardboard with a “green message” on it.
That evening, hold a second Family Night to give out awards to families for their efforts.
Video everything throughout the school year, get permission from families and put your video up on social media.
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