The Green Lane Diary is a flexible resource aimed at exploring environmental issues and encouraging and empowering students to take positive action.

You know what works best for your classroom and your students. This is not a prescriptive program - use it to best suit your needs.  If your students choose to enter the competition - their stories will help to inspire other students as Green Lane Heroes.

Ten Weeks + Ten Topics = One Term of Fun

Broken up into 10 topic sections, The Green Lane Diary gives a broad overview of the environmental issues and offers useful facts, ideas for action and inspirational stories of those leading the way. Begin your ten week journey on The Diary webpage...

The Student's 'Green Scrapbook'

The students write an entry each day of the term in their diary. The only rule for their entries is that they are linked in some way to looking after our earth.

They can write about the steps they are taking to live more sustainably, a class project they may be doing or a topic they are learning about.

The diary is a space for them to record their observations, questions, ideas and discoveries.

Use it:

• As a daily homework task
• To record the progress of a class project (planting a veggie patch, undertaking an energy audit)
• To record individual student work on a research task

Some students might choose to expand their diary by keeping a digital version, making a movie, creating a website, keeping a special scrapbook full of their ideas.  All of this is fantastic!

We would love to see their work and it can be sent in with their diary at the end of term.

Missed The Green Scrapbook on the homepage or need more? Download extra copies of the Green Scrapbook.

Website

For more useful information and ideas, encourage your students
to visit the Green Lane Diary website regularly.

They can tell us what they have been working on, watch videos of Green Lane Heroes and link to more online information sources.

Extra copies of the student diary can be downloaded
from the site. There are also additional teacher's resources
and links for you to explore.

Get interactive

Green Cross Australia is enouraging teachers and students to get into multimedia to make their Green Lane Diary journey richer.

The Green Lane Diary YouTube Channel is beng developed and we will let you know more as the program unfolds.

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Entering the competition

We want to know what your students and community have
done and share it with others.

Prizes will be awarded by the Hon Peter Garrett MP
at a special ceremony in November 2011 to:

• Individual Green Lane Heroes
• Green Lane Hero classes

Get in the running and send in your class or individual student diaries (copies are fine) to Green Cross Austtalia at PO Box 12117, George Street, Brisbane, QLD, 4003 at the end of Term 3.

Your students may have made other material; videos, songs, presentations, websites - send them in to support their entry, we will display them.

Be in the running and let everyone know that kids can make a big difference!

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Assessment Ideas

Diary responses

• Use the student's diary responses as a writing task
• Evidence of the student's writing development (summative)

Project

• Students design an investigation based and use their diary to report on their progress
• Start a class project (conducting a water or transport audit, rehabilitate a local area, plant a veggie patch, start a worm farm). Use the diary to report on the project.

Reading response

• Ask the students to respond to their reading
  (use it to listen to students read & set comprehension tasks)

Investigate and present

• Students choose a topic of interest to them, pose a question and investigate it (hold a class expo and ask students to present their work. Film their presentations.