Description:
Cleaning our homes and work places can be hard on the environment, depending on the products we use and how we use them. Many commercially available cleaners contain hazardous chemicals that can damage living things, as well as the air and water around us. The Clean and Green campaign provides some easy alternatives to harmful cleaning products, and the products are easy to make and safe for students to use.
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Learning Objectives:
The Clean and Green campaign provides some easy alternatives to harmful cleaning products, and the products are easy to make and safe for students to use.
Tools & Materials:
Baking soda, liquid soap, essential oils, containers and rags.
Time Required:
1 class period over 3-5 weeks
Evaluation Rubric:
Ask the building operator and the students in your class the following questions: 1. WastheCleanandGreenCampaignsuccessful?Didyouachieveyour
goals? (2. WhatpartsoftheCleanandGreenCampaigndidordidn’tworkwell? 3. Whatkindsofreminderswouldhelpyoutocontinueusingenvironmentally
friendly cleaning products?
Teacher Notes:
An audit is a test or assessment that provides necessary information for the action project/campaign.
Pre and post audits should be done to give you information about what needs to be done (pre), and if you have been successful (post).
Pre-Audit: A pre-test or assessment to give students information about whether the campaign is needed. Pre-audits establish a baseline to measure what success would mean. Audits can also give information about some of the barriers and benefits of a campaign, helping students plan what information to give during the project.
Education and Monitoring: While the campaign is going on, students may monitor how well the behaviours are changing and what still isn’t working. This monitoring may give information about what to do differently to achieve greater success.
Post-Audit: This measures if the campaign has not been successful, has met the goals, or surpassed them. Additional auditing done after a period of time can show if the behaviour is lasting or has been generalized to other similar behaviours.
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