Future in the Bag Community Action Guide

• This guide will help students develop a reusable shopping bag swap station for a grocery local store. 
• Students will learn about the environmental impacts of single-use plastic bags and single-use plastic bag legislation. 

Positives

• This is a community action guide that will help teachers and students create and implement a local reusable bag program.
• The guide contains reading material on single-use plastics.

Additional Prerequisites

• Teachers will need to allocate an appropriate amount of time for planning and putting this project into action.
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Differentiation

• Schools could use this resource for a school-wide Earth Day service project.
• Art classes could design and decorate reusable bags.
• This is a "low floor, high ceiling" project as the basic idea of creating a reusable bag station is fairly simple, but the work can be taken further into areas such as public policy.
• Civics classes could read about bag legislation and discuss how legislation works on the community, state, and national levels.

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