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These decorated pieces of art are to be completed by April 1st, and will be gathered and delivered to our Litter costs our state over 11 million dollars annually cleaning our roadways from debris and litter. To bring a continuous awareness to our communi y, T.D.O.T. provided a grant to Cheatham County to educate our kids and the community about the negative impact litter has on our community. The Iris Tennessee Cheatham project was created and developed by The Keenan Gr up, I c. to further enhance this mission. Mayor, David McCullough was proud to present the awards just prior to the auction that was conducted by Stephen Carr, a local acuti n er and realtor. Every one of th Ir s structures were purchased and will be on display at various businesses, courthouse as well as some being donated back to the schools. “new”Museum of Litter at the Cheatham County Courthouse lawn for an outdoor art exhibition during Earth Day week April 2014. The Cheatham County Chamber of Commerce will be helping to gather business involvement to participate in a public auction where each sculpture will be auctioned off by Auctioneer, Stephen Carr. Both the class builder of the sculpture and the school who decorated the sculpture will share equally in the proceeds. Not only is it a litter awareness project, it is also a fundraising effort to enhance the art departments at all the schools, or however each school chooses to allocate their funds. ALL MONEY RAISED AT THE AUCTION GOES 100% TO THE SCHOOLS! 2014 winners! What started out with fourteen 5 foot x 3 foot iris shaped wooden structures built by the tech ed class at Sycamore High School, turned into a spectacular Museum of Litter public exhibition and live auction on April 22nd 2014, raising over $2,200! It was a beautiful sunny afternoon at the Cheatham county Courthouse! The front lawn was littered with gorgeou museum quality masterpieces created by every school in the county as well as the CC Library story time kids. With 100% participation, t was a vision to behold.

Iris Tennessee Cheatham August 2013 Kidsville News! began this year-long school project to help bring awareness of the consequences litter has on our community, environment and financial resources. Sycamore high school technical education class, directed by teacher, John Staggs, are creating 13 sculpture bases of the Tennessee Iris. One 3’w x 5’h wood sculpture will be delivered to each participating elementary, middle and high school in January ready to cover, decorate and colorize in order to create a Masterpiece! The mission is for all the students, parents and teachers to get involved in decorating their school’s Iris sculpture only using found litter within the community. The sky is the limit as to what you can create. The mission is to gather“ugly and costly” litter using it to create a beautiful Tennessee Iris sculpture.

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Ashland City Elem AMONG THE STANDARDS ARE: • Each piece of art must be safe for the public to interact with • Each must be durable for handling by the public • Design standards do not allow any direct product advertising, inappropriate verbage or images • Each must be able to withstand light rain Kidsville News!, The CC Dept of Education and the CC Mayor’s office will have the final approval of all art submitted. measure 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall. On this base sculpture, found litter items are to be attached in any form or fashion to beautify and colorize. They can be painted or whatever else is desired to make this a sculpture masterpiece. These sculptures will be displayed outdoors, so it must be reasonably weather resistant. This can be accomplished by using shellac, or other items that can withstand light rain. Create a mosaic of color! Just because trash is ugly, you can transform its use into a beautiful masterpiece!

Cheatham County schools are blessed with an abundance of talented amateur artists! The art that will be represented at our first Museum of Litter will be the result of hundreds of hours of work by students, teachers and parents. technical excellence Sycamore High tech e John Staggs Senior Tech Ed Class are busy creating Iris sculptures!

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Bees fly from flower to flower, sipping nectar and collecting grains of pollen. Bees have a special tongue that sucks up the nectar and a crop in their throat for storing it until they get back to the hive, where it is turned into honey to use as food. Many plants depend on bees to spread pollen, helping them to reproduce. Flowers that attract bees are usually yellow, blue, or purple. Many bees specialize in

one plant species. In areas where different flowering plants bloom at the same time, this keeps different bee species from fighting over the same flower! Honeybees and bumblebees live in colonies or hives. All the bees in the colony work together for the good of the hive. Each has a job to do: the queen lays the eggs and the workers build the honeycomb, care for the larvae and collect the food. Source: http://kids.sandiegozoo.org/animals/insects/bee

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Help students find materials that will give them adequate information to complete their research projects. Students can use the resources your library provides or research topics on the Internet (from credible sources.) Tell your students how you want them to record their findings. Help students research ideas related to litter. You might also send a letter home to the parents; they might want to be involved and help their children with their projects. Check out books from your school’s library geared to young inventors. Students can research the reasons people litter and invent items to discourage littering. Plant trees and flowers around school grounds: Ask local nurseries or your school administration to donate trees or flowers to your school. When planting trees, seek guidance from experts to ensure the best chance for survival. Remind students to wear clothing that can get dirty. If possible, give them latex or garden gloves to wear while they are planting or ask them to bring them from home. Before beginning this lesson discuss with your class how different types of potential litter are reused, recycled, or reduced. Brainstorm with your class and help them construct a list of commonly littered items. Encourage students to think of ways the listed items may be reused, recycled or reduced.

RESEARCH PROJECTS: Research how litter affects the environment. Record your findings within guidelines.

SCIENCEFAIRWITHANANTI-LITTERTHEME: Remember these science fair projects need to have an anti-litter theme. For example, students can determine the length of time it takes certain pieces of litter to decompose or the effects litter has on the earth. INVENT ITEMS THAT DECREASE LITTER 1. Invent items to decrease litter. For example, invent items to make it easier for people to dispose of litter, or products that help different types of trash or yard waste decompose. 2. Wear clothes that can get dirty and be ready to work in the mud. Clean up an area on your school grounds and then beautify it by planting trees or flowers. You will follow your teacher’s instructions about where to plant the trees or flowers. DISCUSSING LITTER Brainstorm with your classmates and make a list of items you see littered. Discuss the negative effects each type of litter has on the environment. From a positive perspective, give examples of how each item may be reused, recycled, or reduced. MAKING YOUR OWN HABITAT GARDEN Make your own habitat garden by using a two-liter plastic soda bottle and plastic wrap. Cut the bottle in half and put a small amount of dirt in the bottom of the bottle. Place a small plant into the dirt, along with some pill bugs. Put a piece of plastic wrap on top of the section of the bottle with the plant inside. Now poke small holes through the plastic and reattach the top half of the bottle (you had previously cut off ) back onto the lower half of the bottle that is holding the plant. Tape the two halves together. You now have a completed habitat garden.

Assist students in constructing their habitat gardens. When they are finished, discuss how they were able to reuse a pop bottle and plastic and help the environment at the same time.

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popularity, garden clubs were being organized, and Nashville had become known for the iris. Gardeners campaigned to have the iris designated the state flower,

Tennessee is one of seven states that have two state flowers. The Purple Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) is the Tennessee’s wildflower and the iris became the state’s cultivated flower in 1933. Other states that have two flowers are, South Carolina, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio and Oklahoma. In 1919, the Tennessee General Assembly passed a resolution providing for a state flower to be chosen by a vote of the state’s school children... with the process to be overseen by a five-member commission. The resolution stated “That the flower which shall be named by the school children and certified by the commission shall be recognized as the State flower.” Shortly after the resolution was enacted, a newspaper listed children’s favorite flowers as including daisy, elder bloom, goldenrod, red clover, rose, sunflower, water lily, wild rose, and violet. However, after the votes were counted, the commission announced that the school children had selected the passion flower, making it the state flower. The Purple Passionflower, called “Ocoee” by the Cherokee and colloquially known as “maypop”, is native throughout the state and was reported to be abundant. By the early 1930s, flower gardening was growing in

and in 1933 the General Assembly adopted a resolution stating “The State of Tennessee has never adopted a State Flower” and designating the iris as the “State Flower of Tennessee.” Because the General Assembly had designated the iris as the state flower without rescinding the previous designation of the passion flower, the state essentially had two state flowers until 1973. In that year the General Assembly resolved the confusion by designating the passion flower the state wildflower and the iris the state cultivated flower. The act naming the iris as the state flower did not specify a particular color or variety of this diverse plant. However, according to the Tennessee Department of State the purple iris is generally considered to be the state flower. Source links:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tennessee_state_symbols

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15 new wooden BEE PASSIONATE 3 x 5 foot structures are currently being constructed by the Sycamore High School Tech Ed class under the supervision of John Staggs. These structures are planned to be delivered in December to all county schools for found litter decoration so you can create a masterpiece out of litter. Cheatham County’s second museum of litter on the courthouse lawn will take place April 22, 2016 with voting by the public for winning entries as well as a public auction raising money for the schools. Letter to the Editor

24% , meaning that if 100 homes had waste service, 24 of them also participated in some sort of recycle program. By this definition the following natural resources were saved. 271,603 Trees 55,542,792 Gallons of Oil 111,085,763 Gallons of Water 515,678,870 Kilowatt Hours 686,997 Cubic Yards of Landfill Space Recycling can happen in many different ways. Think about this, if you take your clothes that no longer fit to a second hand store, you recycled them. When you refill a water bottle and use it again, you recycled it. If you donate used electronics to a needy family, you recycled them. You can recycle in many different ways using various methods, the question is, will you actually do it? - source: Waste Industries

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TRASH ART CONTEST: If your class is not currently working on theBEE PASSIONATE ennessee Cheatham project, you can create art out of pieces of litter.

Help students collect pieces of litter for their projects and find examples of trash art or sculptures made from items that would be considered trash. Ask them to think of other ways to reduce, recycle or reuse trash. Assist one half of your class in painting a landscape mural that is litter-free; assist the other half of the class in painting a landscape mural full of litter. Display them in your school so the rest of the student body will recognize the difference litter-free can make. The purpose of the tube is to transport the student’s papers and art projects rolled up in the tube so the papers aren’t damaged. Make sure the students have art supplies to decorate the tubes. This teaches students a practical exercise in reusing products.

MURAL PAINTING/DRAWING: Half of your class will draw or paint a landscape mural that is litter-free. The other half of the class will draw or paint a landscape mural that is full of litter. Display murals in your school so other students will notice how beautiful landscape is when it’s litter-free. PAPER TOWEL TUBE ART CARRIER: Bring an empty paper towel tube to school. Decorate the tube with markers, paint, construction paper, etc. Write your name on it so you can take it back and forth between school and home with your papers rolled up in it. POSTER CONTEST: Design an anti-litter poster

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THE HONEY BEE... Ashland City • Pleasant View • Kingston Springs • Pegram • Springfield The honeybee was recognized as the official state agricultural insect of Tennessee in 1990. Tennessee recognizes three other insects as state symbols: the firefly, ladybug, and the zebra swallowtail butterfly The social honeybee (Apis mallifera) plays a vital role in Tennessee agriculture by pollinating crops, trees, and grasses. Bee pollination is critical to plant and human survival - beeswax and honey are just surplus gifts from this tiny wonder of nature. The plant world expends a lot of energy attracting bees and other insects with brilliantly colored flowers and sweet nectar (nectar is produced solely to attract pollinating insects). The honeybee is recognized as an official state symbol in seventeen states, primarilly because honeybees play such an important role in agriculture. A honey bee, in contrast with the stingless honey bee, is any member of the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax.

Scientific name: Apis Rank: Genus Higher classification: Apini Lower classifications: Apis koschevnikovi, Apis cerana

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Let’s Talk Trash! Sound Familar?... As I walked down the hallway in my house, I stepped over something that was left in the middle of the floor. My mother noticed what I had just done and asked me why I didn’t bend down and pick it up? I replied, “it’s not mine.” Then my mother said, “The day you stop and take responsibility to pick it up, then I will know you have become responsible.” Boy did that give me food for thought! I felt like I had been treated like a little kid even though I was 14! From that day on, I began to take responsibility to pick up things when confronted with something that was “out of place.” The person who left ‘it’ was the ‘litterer’ and I was the person who ignored it, only to discover that I had to become a responsible person to remove and place the item into its proper place and inform the “litterer” not to do this again. Watch people today! It will amaze you as you watch them step over, around and ignore things, just like I did when I was a kid. What does that say about their responsibility? How about when you finish a drink or candy bar? What do you do with the empty can and

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wrapper, just leave it? Or do you take the responsibility personally to put garbage where it belongs? Years later... I became an art student in college and we were given an art project to create a “found object” piece of art. I was a bit confused as to what that meant, but quickly learned that is was a matter of a scavenger hunt to find things that were discarded on campus in the most remote and sometimes in obvious areas. Believe it or

Debbie Keenan The Keenan Group, Inc. Publisher Let’s Talk Trash! debbiekeenan@earthlink.net 615-746-2443 155 Keenan Court, Pleasant View, Tennessee 37146 Check out my special Editor’s note on page 4! I hope you enjoy this school-wide, year long Anti Litter Program. Now that all schools have their BEE Passionate Tennessee Cheatham wooden structures, it will be exciting to see what collection of litter each school will add to create art masterpieces! We’ve grown to 16 pages! More fun, more facts and more stuff! Thank you to all our sponsors who help make this project a true success. In each issue of Let’s Talk Trash! we will feature updates on this project. Become involved to stop littering in our couunty. It starts from early childhood!

not, I found a commode of all things, thrown into a ravine as well as an old tire and a street cone. As I dragged all of my found litter items back to the art studio, I was wondering what on earth would I do with this litter to create a piece of

art. Well, the bowl of the commode became a face and the tire placed over the cone became a Mexican hat. It looked sort of like this, but a whole lot better! I wish I had the picture to show the actual one, but you get the idea. See what beauty you can create with litter in the BEE PASSIONATE TENNESSEE CHEATHAM PROJECT! (see pages 8&9)

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What does the bumble bee have to do with the Passion flower EDITOR’S NOTE!

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Across 2. Take the _______ to put litter in its proper place. 3. What it is called when people throw something out of their car 5. What is Tennessee’s cultivated state flower? 6. What do bees make? 8. We should all be concerned with our... 9. What it’s called when something is reused 10 What is not good for the environment

When we decided to combine our state wildflower, the Passion flower and the state agricultural insect, the Bumblebee, it became clear that we must “BEE”come aggressive about the negative impact litter has on our community, wildlife, agriculture and waterways. According to the Journal of Ecology: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ j.1365-2745.2011.01793.x/pdf “Declines in availability of plant resources to pollinators are a major cause of pollinator loss. Nectar, the main energetic resource for pollinators, plays a central role in behaviour and composition of pollinator communities like BEES. Our results demonstrate that litter inputs and competition between plants for soil resources can alter nectar traits linked to plant attractiveness to pollinators. This supports the idea that below-ground plant–plant interactions for soil resources can influence above- ground plant–plant interactions for pollination services.”

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Glass bottle 1 million years Fishing line 600 years Plastic bottle 450 years Disposable Diapers 450 years Aluminum Can 80-200 years Foam cup 50 years Tin Can 50 years Plastic bag 10-20 years Cigarette Butt 1-5 years Milk Carton 3 months QUESTION: What are you doing to stop this waste from landing on the side of the road? Stopping someone from littering today is a great thing, but doing it every day is what we all need to be doing. *Information Source: U.S. National Park Service; Mote Marine Lab, Sarasota, FL. This important information was provided by our sponsor: Waste Industries.

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LANGUAGE ARTS/ ENGLISH Projects:

Anti Litter Classroom Projects These classroom / homeschool project ideas can be used in any grade by altering the degree of difficulty you assign to the projects. Use what ideas you can from these lesson plans and

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RESEARCH PAPER ON THE EFFECTS LITTER HAS ON THE ENVIRONMENT Use your school library to find information on the effects litter has on the environment. From this information write a research paper using your teacher’s specifications. PERSUASIVEESSAYCONTEST: Using the information you gathered while writing your research paper, compose a persuasive essay encouraging citizens not to litter. You can enter this essay into a classroom/school contest; make sure you are very persuasive in your writing. Submit to Let’s Talk Trash! and The Ashland City Times for possible publication. READING CONTEST: Pick books to read from the list your teacher has provided for you. Remember this is a reading contest, so read as many books as you can from the list. WRITE A PLAY OR SKIT; Write a play or a skit to encourage people not to litter or a play or skit that demonstrates the negative effects litter has on our community and Tennessee. WRITE AN ACROSTIC AND/OR POEM: Write an acrostic and/or a poem that relates to litter. POETRY CONTEST: Write a poem of any kind that relates to litter. Enter your poem in a classroom poetry contest your teacher may set up for you. JOURNALWRITING TOPICS: Write a journal entry on the anti-litter topic that your teacher assigns to you.

Help students get familiar with your school library if they are not already. Students may need direction to find the appropriate information for this paper. A litter fact sheet can help with this assignment. Ask your librarian to help you compile a list of books that relate to the effects litter has on the environment and any other environmental books that are educational. Supply your students with this list and encourage them to read as many books as they can in a set period of time. The students who read the most books could win prizes of your choice. Give out awards, and post a list of the winners outside your classroom for the rest of the school to see. Consider asking students to present oral book reports on their favorite books. Ask them if they have changed their behavior or attitudes about litter or the environment. Explain acrostics and different types of poems to your students. Help them compose an acrostic or a poem that relates to litter.

Help your students determine what type of poem they would like to write. Make sure they use an anti-litter theme. Set up a poetry contest to involve your classroom or school as a whole. Determine an appropriate award for your students.

Assign your students a journal topic with an anti-litter theme.

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Littering FACTS for Kids An estimated 51 billion pieces of litter wind up on America’s roads and roadsides every year, according to the non-profit group Keep America Beautiful. Businesses spend about $9 billion to clean that up and governments and non- profit organizations spend another $2 billion on litter pickup. Litter prevention measures are in place in communities across the U.S. and around the world, as are programs to raise awareness of the threats litter pose to the environment, property values and overall quality of life. What’s in Litter? A little more than half of all litter you find on the ground is food and beverage packaging. About 55 percent of all littering is done on purpose, by people deliberately dropping items on the ground. Tobacco products, particularly cigarette butts, are the single most littered objects, representing 38 Litter can be dangerous in numerous ways, whether it’s a piece of junk falling off the back of a truck or trash that threatens wildlife. For example, the plastic rings that hold a six-pack of cans can be swallowed by seabirds or can get tangled up with birds and other animals. If litter includes items such as used oil or paint cans or chemical containers, traces of those chemicals and products can wind up in waterways, affecting freshwater supplies and the habitats of many animal species. Source: http://www.ehow.com/info_8674070_littering-kids.html What Can You Do to Help Stop Litter? _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ percent of all objects. Dangers of Litter

Quiz: 1. How many pieces of litter wind up on American’s roads every year? __________________________________ 2. Litter is: check all that apply o cigarette butts o Plastic Bags o cans o puppies 3. Does Litter post a threat to our environment? Why? ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ 4. How many pieces of litter wind up on American’s roads every year? ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________

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Clyde White loading Bee Passionate 3ft x 5 ft wooden structures for delivery. About 85 percent of all littering is the result of individual choices, so by educating people and changing behaviors, you may be able to help reduce the amount of litter that accumulates on the ground. People are also more likely to litter in areas where there is already litter on the ground. Even with all this litter out there, it’s worth noting that about 83 percent of all trash is disposed of properly, meaning about 17 percent of all garbage ends up in public spaces as litter. Read more : http://www.ehow.com/info_8674070_littering-kids.html

John Staggs, teacher of Sycamore High School Tech Class.

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get PASSIONATE!

“Every month in Cheatham County, we pick up over 8,000 pounds of litter along our county roads. I am thankful that by participating in Tennessee’s Stop Litter program, we are able to help in the education of our county’s children regarding the importance of putting trash in its proper place. I want to thank Clyde White who oversees this program, and Debbie Keenan, with The Keenan Group, Inc., for putting together an education program which helps all ages see the importance of keeping Cheatham County clean for ourselves, our visitors, and generations to come,” said Mayor, David McCullough. The Bee Passionate Tennessee Cheatham is a 9 month litter awareness project developed with a county litter grant from the Tennessee Department of Transportation as well as sponsorships from local concerned businesses in the county.

The bumblebee is Tennessee’s state agricultural insect, and the Passion Flower is the state’s wild flower, hence, Bee PASSIONATE! With the kick off of this program during the Back to School Bash last August, parents and kids were provided litter bags and other school related items to initiate litter awareness. The education component booklet, Let’s Talk Trash! began its delivery to all K-6th grade students packed with litter facts, puzzles, stories, and classroom activities and will continue every other month until May 2016. Littering simply put is by far the result of lazy and uncaring individuals who discard unwanted left over products on our roads, streets, waterways, and parking lots. So, how can we as a community stop this uncaring behavior and make our county beautiful? When one understands the negative impact litter has on the community, it becomes clear that it is the responsibility

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of every one of us. Beginning at the elementary school age level, we are helping to develop positive behavior and good citizenship and habits. This is the time where we can change and improve future adult behaviors to care about the environment in which we all live. Think about it, our kids dictate where we eat and shop. Did you know that McDonalds would be history if kids did not insist on Mom and Dad stopping to play and get that kids meal with the toy surprise? It is amazing what impact our kids have upon us! If children become aware of litter and its impact through education, they then notice when littering occurs. Educating our youth now is the way to change future adult behavior as well as our current adult behavior. Knowledge is Power! As part of the Anti Litter Program for all of Cheatham County School aged children, The BEE Passionate Tennessee Cheatham project has now entered it’s second phase with the art project that will be decorated entirely with found litter and were delivered to all schools on December 16th. These 16

wooden structures standing 5 feet tall and 3 feet wide were totally constructed by the students of John Staggs’ tech ed class at Sycamore High School. Clyde White from the Mayor’s office packed his trailer full and off we went! Early afternoon, as we made our way to Harpeth Middle School, we were met with wonderful news. Mayor, David McCullough would be joining us! A sight for sore eyes, David McCullough was greeted with great excitement as he has been recuperating from a major surgery since September. The Bee Passionate wooden structures will become awesome art masterpieces using only found litter by each school to be displayed at the 2nd Museum of Litter at the Courthouse on Earth Day, Friday, April 22nd with public voting and a live auction to raise thousands of dollars for our schools. Special guests will be attending including, but not limited to Channel 4 Snowbird! So mark your calendars now for this great event!

Where do penguins go to dance? (The snow ball!) Where does a penguin keep its money? (In a snow bank!) Why did the penguin cross the road? (To go with the floe!)

Where do penguins go to the movies? (At the dive-in!) What’s a penguin’s favorite salad? (Iceberg lettuce!) What do penguins have for lunch? (Icebergers!)

How does a penguin make pancakes? (With its flippers!) Why do penguins carry fish in their beaks? (Because they don’t have any pockets!)

Penguin riddles!

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INSTRUCTION SHEET

Here are a few Iris Tennessee Cheatham art pieces created in 2014. The sky is the limit of what you can create for this BEE Passionate Tennessee Cheatham Anti Litter Project!!!

PLEASE NOTE: The 10” x 10” circle attached at the bottom must be left blank for placques that will be applied after you complete your Iris Structure. It will have the logo and school name who completed this project. Please DO NOT ATTACH ANYTHING TO THE FRONT OF THIS CIRCLE. The Keenan Group, Inc., The CC Dept of Education and the CC Mayor’s office will have the final approval of all art submitted.

Your BEE PASSIONATE TENNESSEE CHEATHAM sculpture is constructed out of wood measuring 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall. On this base sculpture, found litter items are to be attached in any form or fashion to beautify and colorize. They can be painted or whatever else is desired to make your sculpture a masterpiece. These sculptures will be displayed outdoors, so it must be reasonably weather resistant. This can be accomplished by using shellac, or other items that can withstand light rain. Create a mosaic of color! Just because trash is ugly, you can transform its use into a beautiful masterpiece! AMONG THE STANDARDS ARE: • Each piece of art must be safe for the public to interact with • Each must be durable for handling by the public • Design standards do not allow any direct product advertising, inappropriate verbage or images • Each must be able to withstand light rain LITTER ITEM IDEAS: - plastic store bags - drink cans and cups - all kinds of plastic refuse - food cans - juice boxes, etc. - newspaper ( use it as paper mache) - plastic can rings - plastic bottles - left over pencils, pens, markers - straws and plastic utensils - bottle caps - discarded dishware - paper towel / toilet tubes - detergent bottles, empty tooth paste tubes, etc. - any garbage item that is SAFE TO HANDLE! - tires (cut in pieces for the adventurous)

ATTACHMENT SUGGESTIONS: Glue, nail or wrap your “litter” item onto the

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We ask that you make sure the litter pieces you use are clean and bleached (if necessary). If you brought them from a creek or the river that there is no animal matter in them. The most abundant type of trash you more than likely will find will be plastic. Think of cutting these pieces of thrown away plastic into shapes and create a mosaic. We want to bring more awareness to the trash problem in our community. We could start by stopping the use of one-use plastic bags and one-use water bottles. Everyone should have a refillable water bottle and use it. There are so many things we could do as a community! If you need further assistance, please contact Debbie at The Keenan Group, Inc. at 615-746-2443! structure. Think of texture when you are planning your masterpiece. You can build all around your structure to create a 3-D effect! The sky is the limit! Once your sculpture is transformed with litter, you can paint, shellac or cover in any form to colorize it. Be safe, have fun and let’s see some gorgeous Bee Passionate Tennessee Cheatham Masterpieces!!!! In addition to being part of a public auction to help raise money for your school, there will also be Award Certificates and The Ashland City Times coverage for the following categories: Best of Show Most Beautiful Most Creative Best Use of Litter Most Colorful All will receive an Honorable Mention!

Kinston Springs Elem

West Cheatham Elem

Pegram Elementary Ashland City Elem

Remember: litter is also anything found where it does not belong!

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What are yours?

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The Flower that a honey bee visits must contain nectar, otherwise it will move on. Nectar is like sugar water, and this is what bees like–yummers! They suck it up using their tongue which is hollow like a straw–it’s proper name is a proboscis. Now the nectar is inside the bee’s tummy, and its little body then turns the sugar part of nectar (called sucrose) into different kinds of sugar (glucose and fructose). Some of the glucose then gets turned into an acid. By turning some of the nectar into acid, any bacteria is killed so it doesn’t get into the honey. This is why honey can last for years and years. The bee then moves this watery honey mix from its tummy, into its mouth, and then into the honeycombs of the hive. But this new nectar mix is still quite watery, so the clever bees get rid of most of the water by fanning the mix with their wings. The mixture is now thicker and resembles what we know as honey.

Different Types of Honey Honey can taste different depending on what flowers the bees have been feasting on. For example, if beekeepers keep their hives close to heather for the bees to enjoy, the honey these bees produce will be much stronger in taste. Different flowers give different flavours. All honey starts off as being clear and runny, however, over time, some honey can set and become thicker and grainy–this is called set honey. It’s easy to get it back to being runny though, just heat

To protect their honey, the bees will seal the honeycombs with wax. Those Clever Bees So, how do bees make so much honey? Well, once they find a good patch of flowers that they like, they go back to the hive and do a bee dance to point other bees in the direction of the tasty nectar. In its whole life, a single bee only produces about one and a half teaspoons of honey, but they live in really big groups, which means they can make a lot of honey when they work together.

for a short time in the microwave, or put the jar into a bowl of warm water. For cooking, it’s often

easier if the honey you use is runny. Source: http://miniyummers.com/how-do-bees-make- honey-for-kids/

BEE Facts:

There are three types of bees in the hive: Queen, Worker and Drone 4 The queen may lay 600-800 or even 1,500 eggs each day during her 3 or 4 year lifetime. This daily egg production may equal her own weight. She is constantly fed and groomed by attendant worker bees. 4 Honeybees fly at 15 miles per hour. 4 Honeybees’ wings stroke 11,400 times per minute, thus making their distinctive buzz. 4 Honeybees are the only insect that produce food for humans.

4 Honeybees will usually travel approximately 3 miles from their hive. 4 Honeybees are the only bees that die after they sting. 4 Honeybees are responsible for pollinating approx 80% of all fruit, vegetable and seed crops in the U.S. 4 Honeybees have five eyes, 3 small ones on top of the head and two big ones in front. They also have hair on their eyes! 4 Bees communicate with each other by dancing and by using pheromones (scents). 4 Honeybees never sleep!

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