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Future in the Bag Community Action Guide

Provided by: EarthEcho International |Published on: April 27, 2021

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Synopsis

This guide will help students develop a reusable shopping bag swap station for a grocery local store.
Students will learn about the environmental impacts of single-use plastic bags and single-use plastic bag legislation.

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Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, Civics

Authors: EarthEcho International

Region: Global

Languages: English

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Positives

This is a community action guide that will help teachers and students create and implement a local reusable bag program.
The guide contains reading material on single-use plastics.

Additional Prerequisites

Teachers will need to allocate an appropriate amount of time for planning and putting this project into action.
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Differentiation

Schools could use this resource for a school-wide Earth Day service project.
Art classes could design and decorate reusable bags.
This is a "low floor, high ceiling" project as the basic idea of creating a reusable bag station is fairly simple, but the work can be taken further into areas such as public policy.
Civics classes could read about bag legislation and discuss how legislation works on the community, state, and national levels.

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About the Partner Provider

EarthEcho International

EarthEcho International envisions a world where every individual has the opportunity and tools to create a healthy and thriving environment. To that end, their mission is to build a global youth movement to protect and restore our ocean planet. Their Academy is a new virtual learning space developed to provide online courses for teacher professional learning with access to fully remote, asynchronous environmental education modules for students.