This document provides tips for organizing a sustainable classroom and reducing environmental impact. It suggests creating a recycling center to encourage recycling, using upcycled materials for displays, adding plants to purify air, making organizers from household goods, having bins for scratch paper and refillable markers, encouraging post-consumer paper products, turning off lights and devices when not in use, not blocking air flow, and creating student green teams to help clean up. It also discusses potential school environmental projects like using reusable lunch boxes to reduce packaging waste, replacing lightbulbs with energy efficient options, and starting a community garden for students to grow their own food.

1. Organize a sustainable classroom
1.Create a Recycling Center A classroom recycling center is a great way to
get kids excited about recycling.
2.Upcycled Art Reuse household items to decorate bulletin boards and
classroom displays.
3.Get Some Fresh Air Adding a plant to your classroom is a great way to
incorporate nature into your teaching space and purify the air
4.Creative Organizers Create organizers from common household goods.
5.Got Scratch Paper? Create a special bin for scratch paper that has only
been used on one side.
6.Data, Data, Everywhere Practice graphing and data analysis skills by
creating a “green data wall”
7.Acid-Free Glue Sticks Acid-free glue sticks create fewer messes than liquid
glue and are better for the environment.
8.Make Your Own Watercolors Finally, a way to make use of dried up markers
9.Use Refillable Dry Erase Markers Purchase refillable dry erase markers to
reduce the amount of plastic waste you send to the landfill.
10.Save A Few Trees Encourage your school to purchase paper products
made from post-consumer waste
Energy Efficiency in the Classroom
1.Let in the Breeze Turn off heating or cooling units and open the windows
when the weather is nice. Enjoy the fresh air!
2.Power Down Turn computers off instead of putting them in sleep mode when
leaving school, you can reduce energy use by nearly 40 percent.
3.Don’t Block the Airflow
4.Create “Green Teams” Student jobs make cleaning up the classroom easier

2. Enviromental projects for schools
! Let’s vote for lunch boxes !
Withthisideawecanreduce a lot of packaging and wecanavoid use
albalpaperbecausewe replace pacakging and albalpaper by a lunch box.In
addition cansave money using lunch box becausewecanreuseit.
Change lightbulbs
For reduceenergywecan replace lightbulbs by compact fluorescent
lightbulbsthat are lesspollutant.
Communitygarden
Wecancreated a communitygarden ,studentscould plant vegetables in a
greenhousegardenspace. The studentsthat help couldbring home fresh,
free, local and organicfoodfrom the garden.
Melanie Dorado
Adelina Mehmedova
Daniela Brit