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Megan Schroeder rides her bike or walks to school to do her part to help the planet.
Children stop to take photos of street signs for an after-school project as they walk to school from the YMCA in Garfield,N.J.Across the country,schools are encouraging families to forgo their cars to promote healthy habits,relieve traffic congestion around school buildings and reduce auto emissions.
She also likes the incentives that her school,Bear Creek Elementary,uses to reward kids who ditch mom or dad’s car in favor of biking or walking.
“You get treats,too — usually some kind of food.I won a bike at the awards ceremony,” said Megan,8,of Boulder,Colo.“Since I like animals,I want to save the environment.”
Across the country,schools are encouraging families to forgo their cars to promote healthy habits,relieve traffic congestion around school buildings and reduce auto emissions.Students who live too far to walk or bike are asked to form car pools,use public transportation or walk part of the way.
Prizes for walking or biking to school range from bottles of water to digital cameras,bike bells and bicycles.Many schools and community groups are funding the programs with grants from the national Safe Routes to School program,administered by the Federal Highway Administration.The FHA has funded programs in 40 states.
“It’s unrealistic to just say,‘go out there and walk,’ “ said Darleen Reveille,a public health nurse who works for the city of Garfield,N.J.She has worked with the Garfield Public Schools and the local YMCA to develop walk-to-school programs that appeal to parents and children.
1、How does the Bear Creek Elementary encourage the students to walk or bike to school?
2、Why are so many schools doing this?
3、Who is in charge of the programme?
4、What do students who live far away from school do?
5、What does Darleen Reveille mean by saying,“It's unrelistic to just say,"Go out there and walk"