4empowerment: Resources

Suggested Schedule

Cyberways and Waterways activities are adoptable to your local needs, as each school is unique. Here are a few suggestions to get going, but please feel free to expand beyond the basics noted below:

	Hands on leadership activities	4e web site activities
October	Conduct baseline for Garbology Campus Beautification project (Tip: involve other student organizations) World Water Monitoring Day (think of this one for next year, though some of StuCo’s may jump on it now)	Select an activity for your campus project
November	Conduct campus water baseline project	Review Resource Links for program ideas and resources
December	Begin discussions on Big Picture Project, Conduct Public Relations activities on Cyberways and Waterways program to-date (Tip: Involve your student paper)	Obtain forms to track garbology and water activities
January	Start Big Picture project	Advisors receive passwords to 4e site and enroll StuCo members to the secured student area of 4e's web site. StuCo members log on, update their information and check out student web site guide.
February	Mentor elementary and middle schools	Establish your campus "field site", participate in discussion boards with fellow StuCo members, and begin posting your garbology data and photos
March	Mentor elementary and middle schools Make headway on the Big Picture project	Finalize Big Picture Project idea, complete posting fall field data and photos, and participate in discussion boards
April	Communicate Big Picture project results at your school Geocaching’s “Cache In Trash Out” Day 22^nd - Earth Day	Post Big Picture project results, post data and photos from Earth Day activities
May	Conduct public relations in community about Big Picture results, conduct “project analysis” for improvement and discuss summer initiatives	Submit poll and survey ideas, post to the 4e-zine, and provide ideas for 2008/2009 school year
June	United Nations “World Environment Day”
June - August	Keep it going with summer programs