This is an activity session. Participants will be immersed in the Green Actioneers program as if they were family members coming to Green Actioneers Family Night in their local elementary or middle school with their kids. Each group of four or five participants will be designated as a “family” as they come in the door and will be given a copy of the 246-page bilingual (English/Spanish) “Green Actioneers Family Action Guide” to review together. The book has details on over 100 “Green Actions” that a family can perform.
For the first exercise, the designated “kids” in each “family” will find actions in the book they know their family can undertake. One by one these “kids” will report their chosen actions to the larger group at which point all the other kids will jump up and shout “We can do that too!” We’ve done this in many schools and the kids love the interactive “gamification” of the program.
The second exercise replicates what happens next in the school. We’ll put up a banner on the wall that says, “Our Green Actions” across the top and every individual can put up PostIt notes on the wall telling everyone what they have done or are doing to “go green,” to save energy, water and money and get us all to a clean and green future. When we do this in a school, the chart on the wall grows exponentially. It is like a scouting merit badge sash that kids can see and add to every day. It becomes the motor for the ongoing program.
