'Action for a cleaner tomorrow'
"Action for a cleaner tomorrow" ("Action") is an activity-based, interdisciplinary curriculum supplement that can serve as a starting place for introducing basic environmental education in the classroom. These lessons are hands-on activities that help students get the facts...think for themselves...form opinions...make decisions...and take "Action" for a cleaner tomorrow!
The current edition, featuring 31 lessons, is the best of the best - the most frequently used lessons by teachers in the past 14 years. Each lesson provides the learning objective and background as wellas teacher preparation time. Click here to view "Recycling 101 -- a sample lesson from "Action.".
DHEC's Office of Solid Waste Reduction and Recycling manages "Action" and "Action" workshops. In a three-hour session, you'll see how the curriculum supplement works. Each teacher completing the workshop will receive a copy of the curriculum supplement - 156 pages of South Carolina specific environmental information for use in the classroom.
To schedule a training or learn more about the "Action" training and workshops, click here or call 1-800-768-7348.
Here are some things you should know about "Action:"
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"Action," introduced in 1993, was developed and tested by South Carolina teachers.
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"Action" is designed for grades kindergarten through 8.
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"Action" has been correlated to the state's science standards.
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"Action" has lessons on recycling, waste reduction, composting, buying recycled, air and water. It has a glossary and an extensive resource section that offers background on specific issues from a global, national and South Carolina perspective.
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More than 40,000 teachers have attended "Action" workshops.
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The curriculum supplement and workshops are provided at no cost to schools or teachers.
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"Action" has won several national awards including the Excellence in Solid Waste Education Award presented by the Solid Waste Association of North America, the White House "Closing the Circle" Award and the National Recycling Coalition's Beth Brown Boettner Award for Outstanding Public Education.
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For more information about recycling in South Carolina, please call 1-800-768-7348.
This Web page was last updated on November 9, 2007.