Connections
Clean Sweep U.S.A.
The site initially contained resources related to garbage, source reduction, composting, recycling, waste-to-energy and landfills. Information has been added about Keep America Beautiful’s focus areas of litter prevention and beautification with new interactive games, background materials, and more. The lessons provide ideas for Web-directed research and in-class activities.
Clean Sweep U.S.A. (cleansweepusa.org), Keep America Beautiful’s Web-based educational resource for grades 4-8, was redesigned in 2007 with new lessons on waste minimization to accompany the existing lessons about litter prevention and beautification, thanks to a grant from the Office Depot Foundation. Clean Sweep U.S.A. has a series of interactive learning modules, created to help students, teachers and families address real-world issues about waste. The Web site, which was initially developed with a grant from the Department of Education in 2004 and marketed to teachers in 2005 with a grant from the Toyota USA Foundation, has expanded because of Office Depot’s ongoing support.
Keep America Beautiful
Sue Smith, Keep America Beautiful’s Director of Education & Training, field-tested ways to utilize the Web site with two Chicago classrooms and provided a “teach the teacher” workshop to 10 master teachers for Keep Chicago Beautiful. Through the first six months of 2007, Smith trained more than 1,000 environmental educators at 16 events throughout the country. ■
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