Citizens United's Down Jersey, Celebrating Our Sense of Place - A Teachers' Curriculum, has been distributed to about 60 of an eventual 500 teachers and curriculum decision-makers. The first 200 will be distributed through teachers' workshops. Other packages will be distributed to teachers who make regular sails on the AJ Meerwald with the Bayshore Discovery Project.

Recipients of the teachers' curriculum package were asked to estimate the potential number of teachers they will introduce to the packet and the number of students they are likely to introduce to the activities. These are the astounding figures from the approximately 90 respondents: 27,000 students and 4,000 teachers. And these numbers represent the minimum because many teachers stated, "throughout Southern New Jersey", "unlimited" or plus signs after their estimates.

Here is a sampling of remarks made by teachers:

"Wonderful!"

"Thank you for the state core curriculum standards on each lesson plan! It looks great and easy to use!'

"Excellent"

"It is really well done and I'm so glad I got one!"

"We are planning to encourage field trips to the shore, especially related to migrating shorebirds."

"Excellent, a very impressive accomplishment."

"A very professional presentation, one of the best teachers' guides to cross my desk in many years."

"Fabulous resources thanks for all the work!"

"Great Idea!! Nice to have everything together."

"I love the theme and local focus. Good organization."

"Wonderful - it is organized and easy to understand."

"Possibly, I will use as my theme for a year."

"I look forward to utilizing and investigating!!"

"Great."

"I even love the box. What a cleaver idea to use an agricultural package to denote the importance of farming in Southern New Jersey."

"The packet is very impressive. I need time to dig into all of this wonderful information."