Group 2 Jake Smith Patric Aldred Ravi Arimilli

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Group 2

Jake Smith

Patric Aldred

Ravi Arimilli

Danny Smith

Aileen Zhao

Planting your Happy Meal???

• Package includes one seed of a variety of choices of plants, a small block planting medium, and a little booklet of teaching kids how to grow these plants.

• The idea is to get kids to be environmentally aware.

• This spring has been declared the

Environmental semester.

Plants to be used

• Pumpkins

• Sunflowers

• Lima bean

• Oak (acorn)

• Watermelon

• Redwood

• Tomato

• Corn

• Willow

• Dogwood

• Wild flowers

• Maple

• Apple tree

Environmental Beneficence

• This toy is not made out of petroleum-based products.

• The planting medium chosen is vermiculite,

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• Other Happy Meal Toys eventually are thrown away to contribute to land fill wastes, but our idea will actually help the environment

Enticement to kids

• Learning

• Giving responsibility to kids, feel important

• Parent and child bonding in this project.

• Want to collect all the different plants

• Non gender-specific

Costs

• Seeds, bought in bulk, are inexpensive ~$.03

• The potting medium would cost a couple dimes

~ $.30

• Packaging is minimal ~ $.01

Safety

All seeds are nontoxic and completely safe for children.

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