Use this form to document your MN GreenStep project. Use a new form for each new project. Note that often the best solutions solve many challenges at once. This form, allows you to list multiple best practice actions that your project achieved. For example, the MN GreenStep Schools program encourages the integration of environmental education best practices with other best practices to achieve facility or programmatic improvements in environment or health. If your school planted a rain garden, and involved youth, or involve youth in educational programming about the rain garden, then you might want to tell a story of the rain garden and its educational integration in one place, but count it toward multiple best practice actions in both environment and environmental education categories.

The content from your Project Story form will be included in your MN GreenStep Schools Page. The documentation of your project serves three main purposes. First, the documentation demonstrates successful completion to GreenStep program staff to preserve the integrity of the program, and provide recognition for school accomplishments*.  Second, the documentation, which can be viewed by the public, serves as a story of school greening so students, staff, and community can take pride in the accomplishments. Thirdly, the documentation supports a statewide community of people invested in green schools that share their stories of what they accomplished, how they did it, struggles they faced and how they overcame them, as well as the benefits they received. All three purposes should be considered while completing the documentation. Depending on the project, the documentation task could be an opportunity for students to interview the team to document the story.