Step 1: Form your Group

• Sign up for Roots & Shoots online.
• Consider nominating a group leader and recruiting an advisor who can give you advice. 
• Decide where, when and how often you will hold meetings. 
• Get organized: develop a system for keeping records, in a binder or online using a program similar to Google documents.

Step 2: Identify and Research a project

• There are two questions you should start with:
  1) What are your group members interested in?
  2) What is an issue in your community? 
• Begin by exploring your community, and brainstorming ideas.
• There are great ideas on the Project Blue, and Planet Releaf site for water or forest related projects. 

Step 3: Plan your project and take action

• When your group agrees on a project to tackle, you may want to do further research by: interviewing a community member or expert, or researching a topic online.
• Use the Project planning worksheet to identify the Who, What, When, Where, and How of you project.

• If you're holding a fundraiser for the Jane Goodall Institute, look at directions for donating
• If you're holding an event, make sure to get the word out (here are some tips).

Step 4: Reflect, Celebrate and Inspire others

• When the project is completed, it is a time to reflect on the successes and challenges that took place.  Submitting your project into the database is a great way to reflect and share your project with Roots & Shoots members around the globe. 
• Celebrate! Your group has worked hard - acknowledge this with a movie night, a pizza party or another activity all of you will enjoy.
• Share your project with others - with a video, poem, or display at school, etc.  
• For your forest related project, tell us about the project and create a presentation. You could win a walk in the woods with Dr. Jane Goodall!