1. Clean and Green

2. What’s a Webinar?  What do you know?  What are the tools?  How do we use the Whiteboard?  How do we vote?  Who has the most experience?

3. Objectives  Learn about how to do a Webinar well  Get excited about Clean and Green  Get your ideas about the program  Get familiar with the Web site &the program  Get acquainted with Keep Iowa Beautiful  Find out how we can help you use the program

4. Clean and Green is based on…  best practice  educational research

6. Clean and Green includes…  20 lesson plans for each grade level 20 lesson plans for each grade level  engaging activities for classrooms, afterschool and summer programs engaging activities for classrooms, afterschool and summer programs  Units for teaching science, gardening, service-learning, conservationgardening  Stuff for kids  And it’s all free!!!

7. Clean and Green teaches  The Iowa Core—Science, Social Studies, and 21 st Century Skills The Iowa Core—Science, Social Studies, and 21 st Century Skills  The Common Core--Mathematics, English Language Arts The Common Core--Mathematics, English Language Arts  Place-Based Education  Service-Learning  The Four Keys of Character Education

8. Place-based education  encourages teachers and students to use the schoolyard, community and public lands as resources  turns neighborhoods into classrooms  What is placed-based education? What is placed-based education?

9. Service Learning  encourages students to participate in public service to contribute to community  strengthens educational and personal growth  creates sustainable partnerships and coalitions that meet school and community needs  Why service-learning? Why service-learning?

10. Four Keys to Character Education  challenge children to do their best  providing a community without fear  gain insight into their own learning styles  focus on relationships with others  present what they learn publicly

11. Clean and Green…  carries the message of good character, clean schools and green communities to teachers and kids

12. Clean and Green Scavenger Hunt  Go to Teachers Going GreenTeachers Going Green  Find the following  An activity involving birds  A mouse made of recycled materials  An activity that uses computer keys  A famous artist’s name  A picture book you’ve read  An outdoor activity  Something to eat

13. Where are we? …and where are we going?

14. Assess & promote K—2 nd grade program  Promote with afterschool programs, home school consultants and families  Revise lessons as needed.  Analyze Keep Iowa Beautiful Web site Ongoing

15. Develop 3rd-5 th grade program  Review resources  Collect & write lesson plans  Add Character Counts processing questions  Post on Keep Iowa Beautiful Web site April 1, 2012

16. Market, assess, implement, revise and train  Promote with afterschool programs, home school consultants and families  Refine survey, & develop a plan to collect data on use and usefulness  Revise lessons as needed. Ongoing

17. Try out the surveysurvey

18. Service-Learning Initiative Three-year project to expand and improve service- learning in Iowa

19. Partners

20. Survey input from— Superintendents, principals, and teachers of Grades 6-12 Faculty, students and administrators in higher education Youth development and other community organizations

21. Clean and Green includes…  20 lesson plans for each grade level, K-12 th grade  Grades K-2 is available on-line  Grades 3-5 will be available by April 1  engaging activities for classrooms, afterschool and summer programs  Units for teaching science, gardening, service-learning, conservation  Stuff for kids  And it’s all free!!!

22. Partners  Keep Iowa Beautiful  Character Counts! in Iowa  Wells Fargo  Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service  Iowa Hall of Pride  ICISL (Iowa Coalition for the Integration of Service-Learning)  Waste Commission of Scott County

23. Thank you!!!