Second graders at Manhattan
School for Children are doing their part to protect the
environment.
As part of their environmental
science curriculum, the class recently created an advertising campaign
encouraging people to go paperless.
The project included the
creation of a television commercial in which students appear individually,
telling the audience to "save the trees, save yourself"
and "save trees, go paperless,"
among other messages.
"When you cut down a tree, you
might be making paper but you are preventing us from having healthy oxygen," a
second-grader, Felix Wilking, said. "To help, you might use both sides of your
paper or just not buy things that are made of paper.”
The students have been learning
about recycling all year and have created an action plan for their school to use
less paper.
"Perhaps the greatest part of
this project is that our children feel attached to an important
cause,” second-grade teacher Stephanie Golaski said.
Teachers and students point out
their ad campaign was created without the use of paper.
Manhattan School for Children
is also fundraising to build a rooftop greenhouse which would be powered by
renewable energy and serve as a hands-on lab for students.