This PowerPoint presentation introduces the Green Pirates team and their project to educate elementary school students about recycling. The team consists of 5 members from UMass Dartmouth with different roles. Their mission is to spread recycling awareness to students in New Bedford. Their goals included participating in a beach cleanup with Taylor Elementary, providing blue recycling bins, teaching about ocean trash effects, and making a lasting impression on students. They worked with Taylor 5th graders over 3 events on recycling lessons, art projects, and a beach cleanup. Their efforts aimed to promote long-term recycling habits in the community.

1. Green Pirates Final PowerPoint
Jessica Zielinski
Katie Fuller
Amanda Porter
Justin Ciambelli
Chris Hanifin

2. Meet the Green Pirates
 Chris: Wiki editor, Researcher
 Katie: Liaison between group and school communicator
with Marissa, Dr. K, and the group and the school
 Jessica: Updates the time, agenda meeting director,
power-point creator
 Justin: Creator of lesson plan
 Amanda: Organizer, editor, and craft manager

3. Team Mission Statement
 We are a group HR majors at the University of
Massachusetts Dartmouth who are looking to
educate the community by reaching out to New
Bedford students. Using our skills and education
effectively, we will strive to spread recycling
awareness and make a lasting impression. We will
educate elementary students on how to correctly
recycle, while creating a fun educational
environment they will enjoy learning in. Our
overall mission is to leave a lasting impression on
the students which will be brought home with
them, therefore encouraging recycling at home.

4. Goals of the Green Pirates
 Participate in a recycling event with our
community partner - Taylor School
 Spread recycling awareness to the school
 Teach about the effects of trash in the ocean
 Sustaining what we have taught in the classroom
as well as involving the entire school
 Making a lasting impression on the students and
have what they learn brought home with them

5. Goal # 1
 Participate in a recycling event with our
community partner - Taylor School
◦ Beach Cleanup

6. Goal # 2
 Spread recycling awareness to the school
o Providing students with Blue Bins who didn’t
already have one

7. Goal # 3
 Teach about the effects of trash in the
ocean
◦ Using our lesson plan to teach the students and
have those students teach the 1st grade

8. Goal # 4
 Sustaining what we have taught in the
classroom as well as involving the entire
school
◦ Leaving up the students art project for the
whole year to remind of ARD.

9. Goal # 5
 Making a lasting impression on the
students and have what they learn brought
home with them
◦ Stop & Shop bags we provided them with

10. Green Pirates Operating Principles
 Team members will attend all meetings, and will contact
the group 24 hours in advanced (email, or text) when
they can not make a meeting
 Team members will work to the best of their abilities.
 Work is divided up evenly
 Individual tasks are delegated fairly
 Each group members opinions will be valued and
respected

11. Service to community partners
 The Green Pirates worked with the Taylor
elementary school. We focused on
working with the fifth graders. To spread
the word on recycling and find out what
the students learned from us, they then
presented their art project (ARD event 2)
to the 1st graders.

12. ARD Event #1
 Monday, November 5th
 A lesson was given on recycling along
with a post quiz to see what the 5th graders
retained.

13. ARD Event #2
 Wednesday, November 7th
 Plastic Bag Art Project!

14. ARD Final Event
 Monday, November 19th
 Beach Clean up!

15. Community Involvement
 Umass Dartmouth groups were notified of our
beach cleanup.
 The green pirates gained valuable partnerships
with both Stop & Shop, Lynn Coish, and the
New Bedford and Dartmouth Recycling
Coordinator Marissa Perez-Dormitizer

16. Recycling Awareness, Education and
Behavior
 The art projects were not only presented to the 1st graders but
will also be hung up for the rest of the school year to remind
the students of what they learned during our time there
 The second day of teaching, one girl explained to us how she
told her mother about what she had learned in school that day
and her mother proceeded to create a chart that was hung on
their refrigerator
 38 applications for blue bins were given to the students and 5
students brought them back.

17. Sustainability
 Along with the idea of recycling the right
items and throwing away the rest, we
wanted to promote sustainability to our
students
 We received 38 reusable bags donated to
us from Stop&Shop

18. Creativity
 We had the fifth graders make a replica of the poster that
Marissa has in her office, which shows why it is
dangerous if a plastic bag ends up in the ocean
 During this groups had to draw the animal and somehow
incorporate the bag on it to show how dangerous plastic
bags are for a diverse amount of sea animals.

19. Important teamwork lessons learned
 Voicing your opinion during a group meeting
 Realizing each others strengths and weaknesses will help the
group work together and complete tasks
 Each member of the team needs to do their work and be
reliable. The group as a whole needs to trust that individual
member will do their share and get their tasks done efficiently
and on time
 Being open to other team members’ suggestion allows for
new and creative ideas

20. The Green Pirates succeeded even through
our setbacks we encountered:
 Hannigan School Issues
 Market Basket
 Total School Involvement

21. Any further Questions?
Thank you Taylor School!