Tabling & Outreach | Pennsylvania Road Salt Action

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Tabling and Outreach Ideas and Materials

We always say that it's going to take 10,000 conversations to significantly reduce road salt usage in Pennsylvania! This page has ideas and resources to help you spread the word.

Tabling ideas and materials

Social media posts

Letters to the Editor and Op-Eds

Posters, flyers, etc.

Stuff for kids: coloring pages and temporary tattoo design

Tabling Ideas and Materials

Posters for tabling events

What you can do at Home Poster in English

What you can do at Home poster in Spanish

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"Please could you salt the driveway?"

In this interactive activity, an audience volunteer is invited to spread salt on a mock “driveway” surface. This is then compared to a visual representation of the recommended spacing of salt crystals for effective deicing.

The activity serves as a great springboard for discussion about using the proper amount of salt, and practical alternatives.

Materials:

Paving block or sheet of cardboard
Box or tray that is slightly bigger than paving block to catch salt
Cup of rock salt
Brush to clean paving block between uses
Sheet of poster board or cardboard with white dots 3" apart to represent correct spacing of salt crystals. Fold this in half so it is not visible until the "reveal"

Steps

1. Say: "Oh no! Did you see the weather forecast? There's supposed to be a freak storm coming in tonight with 6" of snow! Please would someone volunteer to salt the driveway?"

2. Show the audience the "driveway"

3. Audience member pours salt onto "driveway"

4. Unfold the board to reveal the correct spacing of crystals

5. Discuss the correct amount of salt to use and alternatives to using rock salt

Social Media Posts

Click the link below to find a series of eight daily social media posts that you can share to raise awareness about road salt pollution. These can be customized with your own data and pictures.

Road Salt Social Media Posts

Letters to the Editor and Op-Eds

Here is a link to a guide to writing a letter to the editor or op-ed from Izaak Walton League that includes examples about road salt pollution

Letter to the Editor & Op-Ed Guide

Posters, flyers, etc.

Posters, flyers etc.

Shovel More, Salt Less Poster

Stuff for Kids

In this activity, kids and their parents look at the posters with Tyrone that show things people can do at home (above), and select one action they can take. The kids then either write or draw a picture of the action on a cardboard die-cut fish. The fish are then displayed and the kids receive a reward - a temporary tattoo or a coloring page (see below)