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Visit Juliyen's page to learn how he and his friends are working with towns to voluntarily stop using plastic bags.
What single element has the greatest influence on the world's topography? Water
What single resource has the greatest impact on people's health and quality of life? Water

Hi kids! For fun activities and games visit some of these sites!

'Paddle to the Sea'-The story that inspired our desire to paddle.

Watch 'SuperHero'-Ganymede the Waterkeeper motion video - World's Greatest Environmental Superhero!

Read 'The Word'-Visit to read what other kids are doing in their community to protect the environment and reduce the use of 'use and toss' containers and bags.

Check out Juliyen's Page to learn how he and his friends are working with towns to stop using disposible plastic bags. You can too!
Online Watershed Games Visit these sites for fun online games and activities.
Native People and Culture Visit games, legends and info about the native traditions and people in areas we've travelled.
Kid Related Projects Visit projects initiated for kids and by kids that are connecting communities with their local lakes, rivers and oceans.

FLAT STANLEY IS HERE!!
Flat Stanley is Here! - Click on the picture to check out Flat Stanley and his adventures with the Beach Walk Project team.
Flat Stanley Home - Click here for Stanley's other adventures.
E-mail Flat Stanley

Fun Online Watershed Games and Activities

WaterAid-LearnZone - Here you will find a wealth of teaching and learning resources for use in the classroom, home or elsewhere.

KidsStuff - Projects, art and Experiments to involve kids and students with environmental protection.

Water Games - Site includes an arcade of learning based games and the new game WaterLife: This game is based on the ecosystem of a United States west coast estuary and follows a human, Valerie, as she encounters Oscar the sea otter, and the Claminator. The friends are challenged to learn about the factors that produce healthy estuaries, food webs, and why estuaries are essential to ocean life and to humans.

WaterShedGame - Water...we all depend on it for survival. But water is a scarce resource—only one percent of all water on earth is freshwater! How can we keep this water pure and fresh?.

ManateeGames - Do you have what it takes to build a manatee, guide a mother and calf to safe shelter, or identify manatees by their scar patterns? Play the manatee games below and find out. You'll have fun and learn about manatees at the same time.

Native Traditions and People

Legend of the Lost Salmon-Yakima - This story is about when the people ignored the directions of the Creator about caring for the salmon, and the salmon disappeared. While Coyote is up to his old tricks, Old Man Rattlesnake comes to their aid.

Native American Games and Info - is an organization working to preserve and promote American Indian languages. This "Facts For Kids" section is designed to provide simple online information about American Indians in an easy-to-read question and answer format. We encourage kids, to look through our information on American Indian tribes to get the best feel for the cultures they are studying.

Kid Related Watershed Projects

River of Words Project - Connects kids and their communities to their watersheds and imaginations through poetry & art.

JULIYEN'S PAGE

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Hi my name is Juliyen. Earlier this year my friends and I discovered how bad disposible plastic bags can be on our environment and specifically our oceans.

Read 'The Word'-Our Kids Blog on what we're doing in our community to protect the environment

With the help of my friends Keenan, Ellen and others we are now working with local towns in Oregon and Washington to voluntarily stop using plastic bags and instead use reuseable bags, backpacks or very large pockets. Hopefully stopping the use of plastic bags will also help people start to think about reducing their use of all sorts of 'use and toss' containers and bags.

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If kids in every community worked to voluntarily stop the use of disposible plastic bags, we would save the environment and ocean from millions of plastic bags!

Below is some more information on how you as a fellow kid, or your organization can help. Please contact us if you would like to help in making your town free of plastic bags.

Do something drastic. Cut the Plastic.
Help make your town a plastic bag free community!

-Over 500 Billion plastic bags are used each year. Wow!!
-Less than 1% of plastic bags are recycled. Where do the rest go?
-Plastic Bags end up in our seas, lakes and rivers.
-Plastic bags kill creatures including: Whales, Dolphins, Seals and Turtles….ouch!

How can you or your organization help?

As A KID: You can organize a group of kids and adults in your town to promote a plastic bag free month. BYOB month. Bring Your Own Bag Month!

As A CLUB or ORGANIZATION: Your organization or club can help in the promotion of a BYOBag Month: Print copies of flyers, and hand them out.
Any youth groups or teams should enjoy this!

As A STORE: Retailers and big shops can instruct your clerks to announce a BYOBag month to each customer at the checkout stands.
You can also post copies of the flyers
You can also provide alternate re-usable bag solutions

For more information contact me, my friends or my Dad at 541-400-0969