School Specialty. Planning & Student Development

The Green Primary edition teaches young students the importance of taking responsibility for our Earth through environmental themes and action-based activities. Help students go green 365 days a year! Go Green at Home activity pages include puzzles and games to encourage students to think about sustainability and get the entire household involved.

It can be the basis for a new environmental program or supplement an existing program already in place at your school.

Monthly Themes:

• Sustainability
• Air Pollution
• Water Pollution
• Energy Conservation
• Waste Minimization
• The 3 R's
• Climate Change
• Ecosystems
• Resource Conservation
• Environmental Stewardship

Social responsibility learning continues in the Green Elementary planner. Each month offers a different activity taught by putting planner lessons into action at school and at home. Family Connections on monthly pages encourages family members to be involved in helping save the environment. By participating in green activites at home and at school, students easily make being green a part of their lives.

Monthly Themes:

• Sustainabilty
• Air Pollution
• Water Pollution
• Energy Conservation
• Waste Minimization
• The 3 R’s
• Climate Change
• Ecosystems
• Resource Conservation
• Environmental Stewardship

Middle and high school students are encouraged to take even more action and make a bigger impact. Monthly calendars interspersed throughout the full planner emphasize the importance of each green theme. Engaging writing and "try-at-home" activities provide context and prompt students to retain ecological literacy. Students are challenged to "get the facts" through fun eco-based quizzes.

Weekly "go-green" tips encourage students to take action on the cause at hand and helps them appreciate fun, motivational content, such as ECOlingo, ECOlogical Fact, ECOtainment, and ENVIROmentality tid-bits.

Monthly Themes:

• Sustainabilty
• Air Pollution
• Water Pollution
• Energy Conservation
• Waste Minimization
• The 3 R’s
• Climate Change
• Ecosystems
• Resource Conservation
• Environmental Stewardship

Easy integration.

Whether you have an existing environmental program at your school or want to start one, this planner program serves as a catalyst for change in your community and facilitates world consciousness in your students.

Created with Green materials.

The green planner is created with green materials: 30% PCRC Green Seal certified Wausau Exact opaque paper; EPS-approved vegetable-based soy inks; 95% post-commercial waste EnviroKoil; and 30% PCRC mill-certified recycled-plastic cover.

Providing Green ideas.

Every page of the planner contains environmental information, tips and activities that engage and inspire students at school and at home. Additional online support furthers your green goals and a page also explains to students “How Green is my planner?” going over the green materials used to manufacture their planner.

Encourages everyone’s involvement.

This all-encompassing program serves as a launching pad for getting your school, community, parents and students striving toward a better environment.

Supported with educator tools.

To ensure our products are easy to use and provide the most impact possible, we provide extra resources that help educators integrate the program into the classroom. Learn more about our product support in the Online section above.

Online Educator Support Pieces

The included educator support pieces elevate the program's effectiveness without adding more work for busy teachers. That is why we created Green.schoolspecialty.com, a password-protected website where educators can download support pieces.

• Resource support package: Program overview, staff support guide, classroom teacher guide, and parent/family guide—all available for download to help teach the onTRAC® planning system.
• Lesson plans: These 11 ready-made lesson plans reinforce concepts introduced in the Green planner. Extension activities are also included to help take specific lessons further.
• PDFs for use on interactive whiteboards: Download a reusable onTRAC® calendar PDF that helps educators model planner use and teach the onTRAC® planning system. Go one step further and order the full planner PDF to model the student planner in its entirety.
• Family newsletters: Send these already prepared newsletters to encourage home-to-school communication and address the same topics found in the Green planners.
• Quarterly educator newsletters: These newsletters provide information and tips to administrators and educators about the resources available and how to utilize them effectively. Delivered four times per year: August, October, January and March.

All this support adds additional value and helps educators get the most from the Green planner program.

Planners are great tools for your students, but why not have them work a little harder for you. Customize them with your school's information, and use them as a continual communication piece between administrators, teachers and students.

School Handbook:

The most efficient and cost-effective way to communicate school policies, schedules and events is to add your important school information right into your planners. Learn more about school handbooks.

Handbook Resource Pages:

Add additional academic resources to your handbook. Choose from more than 100 resource pages. Our extensive library of helpful resource pages can assist students in a number of subject areas. View our complete library of resource pages.

Content Supplements:

Put a spotlight on important issues relevant to your school by choosing from our vast library of supplements. Advance school priorities with resources tied to current curriculum and standards, critical life skills, health and wellness, and more.

Cover:

Design your own cover that reflects school spirit, or choose from one of our templates that align with the goals you've established for you school. Incorporate your school name front and center, right on the cover!

Enhancements:

Add a few more features to make your planners truly inspiring to students. Planning stickers, pagefinders, trackable hall passes, planner tabs, student ID/CD/Home-School pouches, two-hole ruler attachments – choose the enhancements that raise the cool factor.