Printer Restrictions?

Today in the 4th, 5th, and 6th grade classroom, the students where doing a research project. I noticed something that they where doing way too much of:

Printing

Not to mention that most of the pages where not needed. They where either blank or didn't have the information that was needed.

What I would suggest is to have a short mini lesson on how to get the information they want without wasting too much paper.

The lesson would include how to copy and paste text from the site to a word document. Also what is important to copy and paste such as the site you got it from, pictures that will be helpful, paragraphs that contain your information and perhaps some surrounding paragraphs as well.

This would be a great mini lesson for earth day for the important of not being wasteful.