Current news reports on the spread of the swine flu have sparked Kid Scoop to create a Kid Scoop Special Edition dedicated to helping kids take simple steps to reduce their risk of infection.

We are offering FREE OF CHARGE the Kid Scoop "Germ Patrol" page to families, newspapers, schools, youth organizations, medical offices and more. As long as you are distributing the page at no charge, you are welcome to use it!

The page focuses on the importance of regular hand washing, explains how germs and bacteria are spread and how infections attack healthy cells in the body. This information is presented with engaging, standards-based educational activities and enhanced with follow-up material and related links.

• print as a poster and give to schools and medical offices in your community
• publish in the newspaper
• publish as an "ad wrap"
• publish in your Sunday comics section
• provide to schools as reproducible pages for classroom use
• provide to local PTO and PTA organizations for their parent newsletters
• provide as reproducible pages to local daycare, Boys and Girls Clubs and other youth organizations
• donate to doctor's and dentist's offices for them to reproduce and hand out to children in the waiting room

“A BIG THANK YOU for making your Germ Patrol page available to everyone for free. I really appreciate it! Coming from a small newspaper, being part-time, makes it difficult to utilize all the great products available. I really appreciate the opportunity to share this page with my teachers and our readers. I ran it today. Thank you again.”
— Wendy Stemple
Newspaper In Education Coordinator
Daily American

“Thank you for offering the germ patrol page free to all the NIE programs. I really appreciate it. I was not able to gain a sponsor for it, but the publisher said it was important enough to run with a sponsor. I am running it tomorrow & have 950 extra school papers going out. I really enjoyed the content. Thanks again!”
— Dawn McBride
Newspaper In Education Coordinator
Watertown Daily Times

“We're delivering 7482 additional papers on Tuesday with the Germ Patrol edition of Kid Scoop. We offered this at no cost to elementary schools. Along with the papers we will deliver the attached sheet to each teacher. Please share if others want to use this or do something similar. This is a great way for us to get into some schools that aren't participating in NIE. I'll follow up with a request to the principal to visit during a staff meeting to tell teachers more about NIE.”
— Janet Gibson
Newspaper In Education Manager
The Free Lance-Star

“I received a nice email from a teacher today about the germ patrol page we ran last Wed. I thought you would like to read it too:

"My kids had a blast reading the Kids Page yesterday. They made posters to put in the hallway. One group even acted out a quick skit about germs. Thanks for the page!!!”
— Sandy Fleming
Teacher
Riverside Middle School

“I promoted it to all schools K-8 and even had 2 High School Teachers, 1 art, 1 literature/speech who wanted papers too. The art teacher said they share supplies all day & wanted them to be aware of spreading germs. the Literature was going to use it for different speech topics & debate.”
— Dawn McBride
Newspaper In Education Coordinator
Watertown Daily Times