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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
Plastic
bags used this year:
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.
 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
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