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Q. Hi.
For a school assignment I have to create a school that is as ecologically friendly as possible. Do you have any ideas for anything. Best answer goes to the person with the most useful information.This is for a secondary school
Answer
There are many ways to recycle at school.
Recycling and Reusing are the easiest ways of being ecologically friendly.
First, find an old wharehouse or large building that isn't being used instead of building a new building.
Buy only recycled paper and some of your necessary equipment for the school at recycle shops and repair shops. Try to use old things as much as you can especially things that are hard to recycle.
Buy only recycled paper for use with your computer printers, your copiers, and your fax machines.
Use both sides of paper. When you give back assignments that have only used one side of the paper, teach the students to cut up the paper into little squares, staple it together with other recyclables, and make a daily planner from it, or a homework memo pad.
Have students bring their own cups and eating ware to school so you don't have to use plastic spoons and individual milk cartons. Buy milk by the gallon instead, and pour the milk for each student.
Require all students to take the bus or to walk to school. Do not provide parking spaces for unnecessary vehicles. Ask the teachers to take the bus or to walk with the students.
Use the computer and a computer Projector to lecture the class instead of a chalkboard, whiteboard, or other devise that uses up chalk, markers, or other "trash" makers.
Ask students to take home with them their own trash. If a student uses a lot of tissue paper, then let them take it home in a reusable bag, and get homes involved in recycling.
When you use up markers, take them apart and reuse them in an art project, or find something to use them for. If you cannot, make sure you recycle the plastic.
Plant trees around the school, and have students grow their own vegitables in a garden. The school could use those vegitables to put money back into the school fund by selling them to the market if the students did a good job, and it teaches the students about the satisfaction of a well done job. Even give the students a tenth of the profit that it made.
Get rid of all paper records, and have them all done by computer backing them up on CD Roms, HD storage devices, and in the central District offices so you don't lose it all should the computer crash.
Require all students to get an email account, and allow parents access to the computer room to view student reports and newsletters if they don't have access to the internet at home.
Send all reports and communications by email unless it is urgent, then call the parents! If all else fails, try to use as little paper as necessary to communicate notes home. Perhaps have the parents buy a notes home notebook for the students, so all the notes home are organized in a file in chronilogical order, and the parents will know just how much trouble their teen had been in during that year.
Have auto sinks that only dispense water for 20 seconds, about the time that most kids spend with the water running over their hands when washing anyway. Use auto dispensing toilet paper dispensers so that a logical amount of toilet paper is given to the student to cut down on waste, and don't let it give anymore or at least a couple of minutes so the student will not keep pushing the button for more and more.
If a student has the runs, he or she shouldn't be at school anyway because how can he or she concentrate if he or she is so sick?
Have students bring their own water bottles from home. It cuts down on wasted water, and it cuts down on wasted time as the student tries to get a drink maybe even during class.
Have clothes drives to fund the theater class by providing old clothes that can be cut up or used to make costumes or whatever is needed.
Use some of that old cloth to wash windows and to use as erasers on whiteboards or chalkboards if you use them.
Have students use mechanical pencils because then you don't waste pencil lead as much, and you don't need to use so many trees for the wooden outside of the pencils.
Let students use electronic organizers to organize their assignments and meetings at school.
Use the electronic organizers to give passes to students who must leave class in the middle of lessons. Each teacher can have a secret code that changes daily, and if a student tries to use fraud, the hall monitors will know the code at any particular part of the day.
The teacher types in the memo
Destination
Teacher name
Teacher code
Give tests by computer, and you can buy those art pen programs so that the students can write their handwriting on the tests, so they don't have to know how to type.
This would be preferable so you can check the student's spelling.
Have classes about how to recycle and to live with nature rather than against it.
This is all I can think of.
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