Kids take action in the Huron River Watershed with help from the Leslie Science and Nature Center and General Motors.

Thanks to the generous contribution from General Motors over 810 students from 4 middle schools in the Huron Valley School District participated in the GREEN program this spring. Eighth graders from White Lake Middle School, Oak Valley Middle School, Highland Middle School and Muir Middle School monitored the health of the headwaters of the Huron River. With their results students took action to make a positive difference in their watershed. Some project highlights are listed below. Congratulations on all of the hard work.

Project highlights:
-Water conservation messages were used to decorate a horse for a horse show.

-Sidewalk chalk footprints with environmental messages decorated the school sidewalk highlighting how to reduce our human     
  footprint.

-Fortune cookies stuffed with environmental messages were passed out at the school dance.

-Students dressed up as the earth and stood on the corner of M-59 and Duck Lake Road with "Going Green" signs promoting    
  conservation and recycling

-Students created a youtube video http://www.solarnet.tv/forum/index.php?topic=25318.0
 
-Students decorated paper bags from Meijer and Kroger with environmental messages. Bags will be given out to customers so       
  when they get groceries they get an environmental message as well.

-Water bottle labels with water conservation messages. They put them over the regular water bottle labels and we are using these   
  at our Field Day.

-Bookmarks were made and distributed at the White Lake Library.

-Plastic Bottle Recycling - After students identified plastic bottles as the largest source of litter at our site, students designed a plastic bottle recycling program at our school.

-Single Use Plastics Campaign - Also based on the knowledge of plastic bottle litter, our students started a poster board            
  campaign lobbying against the use of single use plastics and encouraging students to use alternative ideas.

-Gummy macroinvertebrates sold to raise money for LSNC. They have made labels for them that talk about Macroinvertebrates and  
  how to protect them.

-Decorated trash and recycling cans placed at Lake Sherwood to reduce the amount of litter present.

-Water Quality Data