Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Teaching youth: Northern Michigan University EarthKeeper Student Team Eco-Christmas

Marquette, MI - Dozens of youngsters from across Michigan created recycled holiday cards and homemade tea bags for gifts during the Northern Michigan University EarthKeeper's Eco-Christmas Workshop at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette. The Northern Michigan University EarthKeeper (NMU EK) Student Team hosted the workshop Dec. 12, 2009 across from the children's library attracting several mothers from the Lower Peninsula and a teacher from Paradise in the eastern Upper Peninsula who plans to bring the idea into her classroom. While finding ways to entertain and educate her children while her husband checked out job offers in Marquette, Tara Strong of downstate Grand Blanc brought her young daughter and baby son to the Upper Peninsula Children's Museum and then the Peter White children's library. My husband is here interviewing for a residency position for after med school, said Strong. We just found out about the project from the librarian. I love it. I love the recycling idea. We're also on a very limited budget and so I really like the idea of recycling and hand making things. I think it's great. Strong said she and her daughter are having great fun. I've been making crafts, said Anja Strong, 4. I made a tea bag and I have a honey bear stick Joined by her brother & a friend, NMU EK Student Team member Ellen Lindblom, 18, said the end of the semester meant lots of scrap paper lying around the university. School just ended and people have lost of papers left over ...

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