 | | Welcome to the beginning of your Green Lane Diary journey for 2013!
If you haven't yet received one, keep an eye out for your classroom poster arriving in the mail. You can use it to explore ideas and challenge your students to ACT - make positive changes to make a difference.
Each Thursday we’ll send you more inspiring ideas for using the website, the poster and iPad magazine over the term. Why not read through the eNews each week as a class to help keep motivated!? |
 | Keeping your Scrapbook
Keeping a diary (or in our case, a Scrapbook!) is a great way for students to express themselves. You can download the digital Scrapbook, use an old exercise book or create a word document - whatever suits you. Use the Scrapbook to suit your classroom – as a daily reflection tool or to document a class project – it’s up to you! Read on for a great example entry.
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 | Green Lane Heroes on the airwaves
The team at Primary Perspectives kids radio are featuring interviews with our Green Lane Diary Heroes. Listen to past interviews online and let us know if you have a hero who would like to be interviewed.
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 | How big is your footprint?
Have you calculated your 'ecological footprint'? You can help your students calculate how many resources they need to live their current lifestyle. It's a great way to get them thinking about about the changes they can make to help ‘even out’ the balance of resources used across the planet.
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 | Hello. Is it me you're looking for?
Searching for inspiration to help your students when they start brainstorming their own project ideas? Check out our Future Sparks competition winners from 2012. We asked students to make a video or convince us in writing about their BIG ideas for a sustainable energy future and were amazed by the results! Let their stories inspire you.
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 | A green canteen? Yes please!
Students at Albuera Primary School have been pretty busy! Not only have they campaigned for solar panels on their school roof but they also grow their own vegetables in the school garden for use in the canteen. Delicious! Find out more about them in Week One's Diary.
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 |  | | Every year Australians use more than 4 billion supermarket plastic bags, but we only recycle a tiny 3 per cent of them! The rest end up polluting our environment or in landfill. |
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| |  | | | The Green Lane Diary aims to get students thinking about environmental issues and taking action to make a positive change.
Because you know what works best for your classroom and your students, feel free to use the resources to best suit your needs.
Don’t forget to keep us informed – we love to hear your stories and nominations for Green Lane Heroes! | | |
    | | | Present your Green Lane Diary poster to the class and brainstorm possible class project ideas. Maybe you could start a recycling system, have everyone commit to being plastic bottle free or even start an environment column in the school newsletter?
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