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KNMB is dedicated to offering education programs throughout the state that assist in the preservation and enhancement of the natural beauty of New Mexico by encouraging communities to improve their surroundings. Programs focus on a variety of topics, including conservation of our natural resources by reducing, reusing, recycling, litter clean-up and anti-litter education, and composting. Other programs promote planting trees and Arbor Day. These programs are taken on the road to schools and other community groups by KNMB’s mascot, Dusty Roadrunner, and the Environmental Education Specialist. Dusty Roadrunner has promoted beautification and litter control in New Mexico for over 40 years.

For more information and to schedule any school programs, please contact Kori Taylor, Executive Director, or 1-800-760-KNMB.

Arbor Day National Poster Contest (Grade 5)

5th grade students are encouraged to participate in the annual Arbor Day National Poster Contest, sponsored by PNM in collaboration with KNMB, State Forestry, and Tree New Mexico. Teachers can use the contest to help increase students’ understanding of the importance of trees in the production and conservation of energy.

Awards will be provided for the top 3 posters submitted. Awards will include savings bond, framed certificates, environmental educational books and a ceremony with a tree planting at the school of the 1st place winner.

Poster contest guidelines should be followed carefully and are available at http://www.arborday.org/kids/postercontest/.

Mail your school’s winning poster by February 12, 2010 to: Kori Taylor, Keep New Mexico Beautiful, PO Box 90924, Albuquerque, NM 87199-0924.

To the right you will see the 2009 National Arbor Day Poster Contest 1st place winner: Geneva M. of Stillwell, Oklahoma.

For more information please contact Kori Taylor, Executive Director, or 1-800-760-KNMB.

Trees Are Terrific! (Grades 3-6)

Students will identify ways trees “work” to protect our natural resources, estimate the economic value of urban trees, describe ways trees enhance human environments and natural ecosystems, and recognize appropriate planting sites for urban trees in their community.

For more information and to schedule any school programs, please contact Kori Taylor, Executive Director, or 1-800-760-KNMB.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (Grades 3-5)

Dusty Roadrunner and KNMB’s Environmental Education Specialist conduct waste audits in schools throughout New Mexico to teach students and teachers how to reduce, reuse and recycle. In 2008, they visited 20 schools around New Mexico, from Hondo to Gallup. In this activity, 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students sort, count, and weigh their classroom trash. The data is recorded on a chart by category, making it easy to see what type of trash is the most common. Then students brainstorm ideas that reduce the amount of trash in their classes. It is no surprise that in most classes, paper constitutes the majority of trash. Paper waste makes up more than a third of all trash in America. Students are making a difference by putting their ideas into action!

For more information and to schedule any school programs, please contact Kori Taylor, Executive Director, or 1-800-760-KNMB.

Schoolyard Litter Detectives (Grades 2-6)

Schoolyard Litter Detectives is an environmental education program designed to help students clean up and analyze the litter in their schoolyards and develop a plan to teach others about keeping the schoolyard free of litter.

Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22, but your students can participate in Earth friendly projects any time! Contact KNMB’s Kori Taylor, Executive Director, or 1-800-760-KNMB for more information.

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