School Fundraising Ideas for the Classroom

Have FUN learning to help the environment while raising money for your school!

With our School Fundraising Ideas, you can earn up to $40 per phone collected, and leave your students with a greater sense of community service. Following are some fun ways to get the students involved, and participating in something much greater than just a fundraiser.

Classroom Activities
Games & Crafts
Fun Facts & Recycling Tips for Everyday

 

Classroom Activities

Every great teacher knows the best way to learn is by doing. Following are some activites that will encourage student participation:

1. Start the CellFund Fundraiser Program.
2. Organize or volunteer your class for a recycling day at a beach or park.
3. Take a field trip to learn about recycling.
4. Place recycling bins in the classroom. Maybe create a reward system for students who participate in using them.
5. Throw a PARTY at the end of the fundraiser for the class that collected the most used cell phones to raise money for their school.

 

Fun Facts & Recycling Tips for Everyday

• Cell phones and their batteries contain hazardous materials that are harmful to the environment if not disposed of properly
• By recycling one aluminum can, you can save enough energy to run a TV set for 3 hours
• By turning off the water while you brush your teeth, you can save 9 gallons of water EVERY time you brush
• Leave the oven door closed when mom's baking cookies. Each time you peek, you lose 25 to 50 degrees.
• A 5-minute shower can consume 35 gallons of water using a standard shower head
• Water pumping is one of the greatest uses of electricity, so every drop conserved counts

(above information taken from www.oberlin.edu/recycle/fact.html)

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