COMMUNITY WATERWAY CLEANUP/StoryWalk®
MATERIALS
Cleanup
- non-latex gloves
- trash bags
- recycling bags
- grabbers/trash pickers (optional)
Storywalk®
- blank yard sign
- velcro/outdoor mounting tape
- clear protective vinyl or laminating
- picture book (2 copies)
- hair dryer
- scissors or box cutter
- clear packing or shipping tape
RESOURCES
- CSLP manual: Teens, page 215-216
Partner with a local park or conservation group to learn more about waterways in your community. After a guest speaker (optional), teens or families collect trash from a local waterway or park. Suggested runtime: 90 minutes.
INSTRUCTIONS
- Identify a local waterway
- Identify collaborators
- Set a date and time
- Locate supplies and snacks
- Invite a guest speaker
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Additional Activity
Storywalk® is an innovative and delightful way for children — and adults! — to enjoy reading and the outdoors at the same time. Laminated pages from a children's book are installed along an outdoor path. As you stroll down the trail, you're directed to the next page in the story.
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- Disassemble picture book, using heat gun and scissors or box cutter
- Re-sort pages and double check!
- Tape pages together
- Laminate pages or use Con-TACT clear protective vinyl
- Velcro pages to yard signs and install along path
PICTURE BOOK SUGGESTIONS
- Rocket Says Clean Up! by Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola
- Green Machine by Rebecca Donnelly
- What if Everybody did that? by Ellen Javernick
- We are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
- Water is Water by Miranda Paul
- Trashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman
BOOK LIST
- 101 Ways to Help the Planet: A One Year Challenge by Gaia Appello
- Junk Raft: An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic by Marcus Eriksen (adult)
- Going Blue: A Teen Guide to Saving Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, & Wetlands by Cathryn Berger Kaye and Philippe Cousteau (YA)
- How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other by Naomi Klein and Rebecca Stefoff (YA)
- Into the Deep: Science, Technology, and the Quest to Protect the Ocean by Christy Peterson (YA)
- Generation Green: The Ultimate Teen Guide to Living an Eco-Friendly Life by Linda Sivertsen and Tosh Sivertsen (YA)
- The Nature of Life and Humanity by Joseph Stadtmiller (adult)
