The core activities of this kit are to prepare for and run a day (or a week) of change. This requires a base line survey of how one class of staff and students, or the whole school, ordinarily get to school. Following this various activities are run to further understanding of and learn more about the importance of sustainable transport (see following pages for some good ideas to choose from). After learning about sustainable transport the class involved (or whole school) runs a day (or week) of change, where each child and staff member attempts to travel to and from school in a sustainable way - walking, cycling, using public transport or car pooling. The days of change are also surveyed so that you can monitor how well you have done and how much pollution you saved from going into your local school environment (and into everyones lungs!).
An easy step by step recipe for success follows.
Step one: Survey all individuals in the class about how they ordinarily get
to and from school for a day/week.
Survey forms to help you to run the
survey are available here.
Step two: Analyse results and plan Smogbusters Week/Day:
• How many kilometres were travelled by car/walking/cycling/bus/train?
• What percentages of the whole are they?
• How much pollution went into the atmosphere from these ways of travelling?
• Graph individual results
• Total the class results and graph
Step three: Learn about sustainable transport and all the benefits it has for air quality, global warming, health and wellbeing, and our sense of community. See following pages for some good ideas to get you started.
Step four: Decide what improvement you would be looking for in the Smogbuster Way To School period?
• Would it be a 10% reduction in car travel or more?
• Discuss different ways of travelling to and from school.
Step five: Run a Smogbusters Day of Change (or even better a week!)
Step six: Evaluate and promote your success.
• By how many kilometres did you reduce the vehicle kilometres travelled?
• How much pollution did this represent? (see conversion table overleaf)
• Organise a way of congratulations the students, parents and teachers
involved.
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