Since 2012, Green Apple Day of Service has impacted
We will take 150 children from a LEED-certified school to a LEED-certified Coca Cola bottling plant for a tour of the bottling process and to show the sustainability of the building. This demonstrates that huge companies are taking care of their carbon footprint and we can do the same in our daily lives.
Our students love to embrace nature at our school and what better way is there to learn about our nature than to be immersed in it while learning or reading a book.
This project is in the development phase. It is to include establishing a half mile walking path around the school grounds and resurfacing the playground area with sustainable materials.
Provide clean up and upgrade of existing rain garden. Trash removal, weed pulling and adding in new mulch.
For the past 12 years, all eighth grade students at my school have worked in teams to design and implement initiatives that positively impact our environment in some way. For example, last year one team encouraged school and community members to switch from using disposable plastic water bottles to reusable bottles.
The sustainability culture in the Whitefish School District has been growing in the past few years with recycling and composting programs, a newly built community sustainability center, and greenhouse. My students will be working this year to educate their fellow students on the importance of these programs by creating short educational videos.
Students will learn how to cook what they grow in the garden. They will infuse all subjects to bring their learning and understanding full circle. By the students learning how to cook what they grow they will live a healthier lifestyle and have healthier eating habits. Kids are more likely to try new foods that they grow.
Repair, improve, and maintain trails and gardens of Ford Elementary School. Ford Elementary is a Gold Level Green Ribbon School. We believe learning happens in the outdoors.
Volunteers will be engaged in cleaning interior spaces and doing weeding/clean up of the school's exterior grounds.
cleaning the street, painting, cutting shrubby, and making the street beautiful
In September, landscaping is probably most likely activity. We have a horse show in the fall so we spend time prepping the farm
Hello, we will be picking up litter at Rose Playground and surrounding streets, cleaning weeds and leaves and doing a paint project and closet clean out inside the buidling
The same as last year out side yard work, light painting, and cleaning
Gardening and cleaning up of site
mulching and cleaning
Parking Lot cleanup Front Yard Cleanup Back Yard Cleanup Balcony Cleanup
All volunteers will be working on an Urban Farm. Projects will include weeding, compost turning, spreading mulch, moving soil, harvesting/drying herbs, and painting
Outside gardening work including removing bushes if possible AND scrubbing chairs in our social hall.
Weeding, mulching, Planting, painting
(1) Re-touch paint from last year's project: stairwells and exterior doors, (2) Paint large and small conference rooms, (3) garden projects, including assembly of raised beds (raised beds and materials already provided--some tools needed)
We will be doing exterior painting of yellow parking areas, exterior doors, and staining wood planters with exterior stain. Interior masonry painting of foyer . Weeding out back in the playground. Cleaning indoors.
yard clean up, repairing deck equipment, painting, cleaning, power washing, etc.
Outside yard work - cleaning inside - painting
The volunteers will be cleaning sidewalks, street curbs, and a park of litter only. They will also paint 260 ft. plus of fence area on the street area, 6 porch steps for the elderly.& white front doors. Paint street curb too. They will cover a 30 city block within a neighborhood area called Carroll Park.
Painting parking lot lines Painting steps for CAUTION Weeding, mulching, trimming bushes Raking mulch, sweeping leaves
Working in the various planting beds and graveyard repairing damaged areas and replanting where needed.
Some weeding and trash pickup. Some mulching. Possibly some planting. Some painting and cleaning.
weeding, mulching
Date: Saturday, September 15, 2018
Time: 9:00am-3:00pm (stay as long as you can)
Where: Great Lakes Academy 8401 S. Saginaw, Chicago, IL 60617
What to do: Sign up!!
There will be some yard work, mowing and trimming. there will also be some lot clearing work, removing trash and weed whack lot. Finally there could be some paining of interior rooms
This is a forest setting. The team will be clearing the trails in the park, using hand tools. Strongly recommend long clothing.
landscaping, painting, cleaning
Outside grounds clean up, light carpentry, basement clean up, other clean up
Variety of farming and site clean-up tasks, including removing trash and debris, pulling weeds, wheelbarrowing and shoveling compost and soil and woodchips. Possibly trenching paths and creating new growing spaces. Cleaning shipping containers and wash station.
Assist Philadelphia Water Department grounds crew clean and re-plant an existing rain garden. Work will involve trash and weed removal, planting of new plants, and installation of a small rope fence.
Short Avenue Elementary is thrilled to participate in the transformative Green Apple Day of Service incorporated into our annual beautification day.
Cleaning the church parking lot and side street adjacent to the church
Volunteers will be doing landscaping(weeding, mulching, planting), bench and picnic table repair and repaint, and house cleaning(dusting, sweeping, glass cleaning)
a) Clean up outside garden area -pulling weeds, dead plants, sprucing up path-way. b) Cleaning main room carpet/spot carpet cleaner c) Potential service project on site - TBD.
Volunteers will clean and rehab in our neighborhood park and will tend to recently planted trees
Gardening and Painting
Trail clearing and invasive removal
We?ll be pulling and digging weeds, cutting overgrown vegetation, digging out invasive vegetation, raking leaves, and other general park maintenance.
Weeding, mulching
Green Apple day- Outdoor classroom
Painting a community room, walls , trim and bookshelves, in a convent next to Queen of Peace. .
Outside clean up and painting projects
The Wissahickon Sustainability Council is a 501c3 that works to green Cook-Wissahickon Elementary and Middle School. We will have a community event at the school focused on ways to green your home and neighborhood. We will have the volunteers help with setup, cleanup, as well as running activities, such as arts and crafts.
Yard work (could include weeding, mulching, separating stones out of garden beds) Painting outdoor shed Cleaning house windows
We would be so thankful if the students can help our site stay clean and safe for the children... spreading mulch under playground swings to guard against fall injuries. Pruning shrubs, weeding outside. Inside general cleaning.
General cleanup of school yard and Children's Cottage playgrounds and Children's Garden. Planting in front gardens.
They will be preparing to paint and painting multiple rooms in our retreat center.
Planting flowers in the front of the school. Cleaning and painting 10 classrooms and hallways painting a Mural (artistic design in 2 rooms) Assisting in setting up classrooms (with teachers present)
Mulching, picking up sticks, painting driveway edge lines
They will be building a fence around our Community Garden, putting up shelves in our Pre-School and Cleaning the windows of the church
Streamside cleanup of new location in CRC Watersheds.
We will be cleaning out the numerous flower beds around the church and school. We will also be adding/spreading mulch to our playground. there will also be some cleaning inside the church and school.
Volunteers will be painting 22 classrooms
pulling weeds, shoveling mulch and compost, picking up trash and garden cleanup, moving wood piles and trimming trees
The volunteers will be removing gardens and preparing the clubs playing fields and playground for fall/winter. This will include turning soil, pulling weeds, moving benches, planting fall flowers, etc. Also, the other half of the group will be doing cleaning and organizing projects indoors in preparation for the 2018-2019 school year.
Spread mulch & wood chips, Weed and clear some garden space & plant produce. Turn compost piles
The group will be removing the summer gardens, turning soil, picking weeds, and preparing the gardens for fall crops. We will also be doing a general clean up of the exterior of the building. The other half of the group will be cleaning and organizing program spaces and touching up paint in the hallways, lobby, and literacy center.
They will be weeding, pruning, mulching, painting, picking up trash and cleaning in our food spaces. Thank you so much!
They will be removing shrubs, trim hedges, planting and mulching Cleaning child care area
Weeding, pruning, planting. Cleaning.
Are you unsure how to get started with your green program? Need help getting buy-in, support and resources? After this event you will be able to define the value of green to your school, identify 10 actions and assemble a team to support your greening efforts. Attendance can either be in person or virtually.
Volunteers will be working with the residents of St.Elizabeth's Recovery Residence to clean and garden the gardening planters outside the residence.
Volunteers will be helping us in the new Edible Garden by painting the garden shed. They will also assist us in the care of the gardens.
Working on a Urban Farm! Weeding, feeding mulching trees and plants in orchard and Farm. Painting picnic tables. Cleaning greenhouse area.
On Villanova's Day of Service Saturday RWCC ask our neighbors in the 600 block of South 60th Street (Cedar Avenue to Walton Avenue) to remove their cars. Then we begin the clean up.The corridor's street & the back alley ways are cleaned out.
racking leaves and cutting back vines in back yard. wiping down and cleaning ledges and blinds in gathering area. (freshening up classrooms. We have three faculty members helping . Thank you!
Various tasks including weeding, planting, etc. Also apple picking.
A cleanup of the Darby Creek. Areas will be muddy and this event will take place completely outdoors so it is best for participants to wear comfortable clothes they are OK with getting dirty and bringing a water bottle.
Yardwork - clearing weeds, etc. at back and front corner of the yard. Good saw needed. We have other tools. Painting - interior - stairwell wall Sanding and staining small decks -10' x 11.5' and 4.5' x 8' An electric sander is needed.
cleaning cabinets in kitchen, dusting, outdoor gardening, weeding and pruning
Gardening and cleaning up of site
The Carolinas Green School Working Group will be installing a green wall for Ashley Park School that will not only help clean the air for the students but it will provide an educational opportunity for the students to understand the benefits of plants and how they help us.
Our entire school participated in service projects to celebrate International Day of Peace on September 21, 2018. The day started with students donating snacks to Littleton Promise, an after school tutoring program for immigrant children in our local community.
We will be painting activities on the playground to provide healthy choices of exercise during recess.
We will clean up our butterfly garden and nature trail.
STEM activities with recyclable materials.
We will paint a mural in our school to promote growing up green.
Hillcrest staff, students, and their families will gather in the Hillcrest Learning Garden to collect and package the nutrient-rich soil created by the red wigglers in our four vermicomposting bins. Work parties will also, remove compost from our food scrap composting system and clean out the bins.
Students and families at Plumosa School of the Arts will prepare our raised bed vegetable garden for the new school year.
Hillcrest staff, students, and their families are invited to Joseph Whidbey State Park for a morning of trail clearing, beach clean up, and tending to the nine Garry Oaks previously planted in Heron Grove. Hillcrest has officially adopted Joseph Whidbey State Park after applying through the Washington State Parks Adopt-a-Park Program.
Haskell is partnering with The Discovery School in the creation of an Outdoor Learning Space which includes the construction of a central Learning Pod structure, creation of a chalkboard wall and significant landscaping. This effort will also include the construction of a pallet green wall and pallet seating structures.
The students in our Environmental Stewardship class are students that struggled in the normal high school environment. They were referred to our alternative program, due to their unique needs. These students excel working with their hands and participating in collaborative projects with groups from our community.
K Raheja Corp is one of the leaders from the developer community in India and they are committed to LEED. They had organised Knowledge session for their key clients in 3 cities, wherein they showcased K Raheja Corp’s imagery as a key creator and contributor to ‘Green Buildings’ amongst their client.
Irrigation repair and some installation. Weeding and Pruning of outdoor learning areas.
We have many outdoor learning spaces around our school where students and community members will be working to maintain a safe and clean learning space. For example, McDill Elementary has a beautiful wooded area behind the school. There are existing walking trails that are in need of maintenance.
Another in our series of projects at Stonebridge to bring the students' outdoor classroom to life.
Auburn Athletics, the Waste Reduction and Recycling Department, and the Office of Sustainability need volunteers to help educate football fans on the correct objects to throw away and to recycle at the football game on September 29th against the University of Southern Mississippi.
Verdani Partners, a sustainability firm, will be hosting a Green Apple Day of Service event at Olivenhain Pioneer Elementary in partnership with OPE's PTA and parents as well as Green Leaf Environmental Services (https://www.greenleaflandscapeservices.com/)
volunteers will help high school students build raised beds for growing organic vegetables which they will use in their culinary arts class. Students learn how to cook healthy meals, reduce water use, cultivate soil, seed, harvest, rotate crops, create a regenerative landscape and support their community.
The Green Apple Day of Service is a national event that gives teachers and students the opportunity to transform all schools into healthy, safe and productive learning environments through local service projects.
We will be planting several trees and shrubs around the grounds of Walt Disney Magnet School in Chicago's Buena Park neighborhood. The plants will provide shade, wildlife habitat, carbon sequestration, and reduce stormwater runoff while providing an opportunity for students to interact with and learn about nature.
This year we will accomplish the following:
1) Clean up 3 neighborhoods around the school
2) Plant a dedication tree for Rick Papapietro, a long time volunteer.
3) Work on 14 emergency portable solar power stations for Puerto Rico.
4) Plant 200 spring bulbs.
Irrigation repair and some installation. Weeding and Pruning of outdoor learning areas. We also need to finish painting a pallet fence on our nature trail as well as cutting back " invasives", spreading mulch, and removing debris.
Our first project is our blueberry Garden. We have received a Whole Foods Grant for our garden and we will be building six raised beds as well as a chicken wire cover for the garden. This will also involve adding soil to all the beds.
Sprucing up our outdoor garden/environmental/edible classroom with Bilingual signs identifying vegetables/fruits to support our new Wilshire Crest ES Spanish/English Dual Language program, fruit tree care, weeding, mulching, installing irrigation, cleaning up our raised beds for our SEED to Table program.
Teachers, Students, and Parents will walk around the school property and clean up the trash and waste that has accumulated. Our school is near a busy street and some liter gets thrown out by our school grounds. We have been participating since the beginning of the GADOS began. This is Ogdensburg’s 7th annual Green Apple Day Of Service.
Our students are very excited about our new recycling club this year! We need more bins to help students fulfill their recycling needs. The students will learn everything about how the recycling process works to how to determine which material does and doesn't get recycled. We have enthusiastic students that are very excited to start recycling!
We are having a school-wide garden clean up day! We will be working with partners from WSU SNAP-Ed and Island County Public Health to clear weeds, lay down new bark, and clear out old growth to get our garden ready for fall. Everyone will get involved to help our garden shine and take pride in our outdoor learning space.
Green Team students at Stephens Elementary LRSD will assemble gift bags next Friday - October 5 - Energy Efficiency Day - with items to help others reduce energy consumption and lower utility bills. Gift bags will be distributed through the school’s food pantry.
Our 6th graders are brand new to Boston Green Academy, and their Green Apple Day of Service project will help introduce them to what it means to think sustainably. All of our 6th graders will learn about the importance of recycling and then will make Marker Recycling Baskets for all the 6th-12th grade teachers at Boston Green Academy.
Our school is embarking on a project to enhance our outdoor learning environment. We are creating a series of play zones on our back blacktop. The idea is to create play zones that encourage students to maintain fitness and expand their social circles while building strong social-emotional skills.
Munsey School community members were invited to participate in the Munsey School Beautification Day. Representatives from Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America, schools, church and friends were invited to participate in the weekend project. We cleaned the various landscaped areas at the school.
Alder students have built many gardens around our community including gardens by the community center and by the primary schools. This year they're bringing it back home to Alder Avenue by rebuilding our gardens. Students have been working on reshaping the gardens since Spring, and are in the process of building a hoop-house.
This year's projects are as follows:
Hydroponic Towers & Grow boxes
Refurbish Existing Grow boxes
Compost Boxes
Interactive learning & growth chart
Kid projects – age based activities for students who come to Green Apple Day
Contingency project – Hose run for water for Hydroponic Towers
A team of volunteers from Dar Al Handasah - Beirut office Joined the Sustainability Movement 2018 Campaign to work on a Sustainability & Environmental awareness project at "Leila Saad School-SABIS Mtein" . The team worked on a set plan to provide the largest possible impact on the Students.
USGBC-NCR will work on October 6th to help John Burroughs Elementary School revitalize heavily used parts of the school by painting Lockers, create new sensory learning experience for students through sensory tables converted from benched, and plant a new garden for students and teachers to use in learning about agriculture and sustainability.
This year we will be updating/ building out our chicken pen , finishing our garden benches, and "lasagna layering" the garden beds. Our chickens had an "unfortunate event", so we will be building out a more secure pen for the new birds. Extra hands, (woodworkers in particular) are needed for that, and to complete our garden bench project.
A team of volunteers from Dar Al Handasah - Beirut office Joined the Sustainability Movement 2018 Campaign to work on a Sustainability & Environmental awareness project at "CTI - Christian Teaching Institute" . The team worked on a set plan to provide the largest possible impact on the Students.
The Prince William County Solid Waste Department and the Prince William County Schools Energy Management Team, partnered to host a whole school assembly entitled "Recycle Magic" presented by Nate Unsworth. The assembly was a 1 hour presentation of magic and presented content on recycling and water conservation.
The Prince William County Solid Waste Department and the Prince William County Schools Energy Management Team, partnered to host a whole school assembly entitled "Recycle Magic" presented by Nate Unsworth. The assembly was a 1 hour presentation of magic and presented content on recycling and water conservation.
The Prince William County Solid Waste Department and the Prince William County Schools Energy Management Team, partnered to host a whole school assembly entitled "Recycle Magic" presented by Nate Unsworth. The assembly was a 1 hour presentation of magic and presented content on recycling and water conservation.
The Prince William County Solid Waste Department and the Prince William County Schools Energy Management Team, partnered to host a K-1 school assembly entitled "Recycle Magic" presented by Nate Unsworth. The assembly was a 1 hour presentation of magic and presented content on recycling and water conservation.
A team of volunteers from Dar Al Handasah - Amman office Joined the Sustainability Movement 2018 Campaign to work on a Sustainability & Environmental awareness project at "Rosary College School" . The team worked on a set plan to provide the largest possible impact on the Students.
Before throwing anything as a waste, try to make optimum usage of it, by way of repeated use.
In order to reduce environmental impact we will reuse and recover wood and fabric products (wooden frames, boards, crates, check marks, textile, canvas bags, wooden frames).
Workshop - My Plant Project
Workshop Kokedama Moss Balls
In partnership with University of KY and our local municipality (Lexington Fayette Urban County Government), six Fayette Co Public Schools will plant 40 trees on our campuses Oct 10th, 11th and 12th.
Building a shaded outdoor teaching space
There are many reasons to maintain a garden at school. Gardens teach students about the important role of land in our lives: providing wildlife refuge and habitat, growing vegetables and fruit for instruction or cafeteria use, and providing places to divert water from storm sewers.
Pharr Elementary will be cleaning up their garden to prepare for another year of great learning outdoors. If you want to come see how every subject can be taught outdoors and get a little exercise and fresh air while you are doing it, come join us from 8am to 11am on Saturday, Oct 13. Bring your gloves and any tools you have.
We will facilitate a garden clean-up at the school as well as teach students about composting. The day will include multiple activities to boost the student's understanding of waste management.
Jefferson Community Work Day will be held on Sunday, October 14th from 10am-2pm.
A team of volunteers from Dar Al Handasah - Cairo office Joined the Sustainability Movement 2018 Campaign to work on a Sustainability & Environmental awareness project at "Manaret Heliopolis International school" . The team worked on a set plan to provide the largest possible impact on the Students.
USGBC staff will volunteer with Martha's Table, a local organization that gives out fresh fruits and vegetables to families in under-served neighborhoods. The food markets are run at schools, and parents and students often come together.
We build a compost area 2 years ago using recycled materials. However we outgrew the area with the amount of food we were composting. The existing compost materials are starting to decomposs and break. We would like to build a larger compost area that we can divide into the 4 nine weeks to allow us more room to compost all the waste.
A team of volunteers from Dar Al Handasah - Amman office Joined the Sustainability Movement 2018 Campaign to work on a Sustainability & Environmental awareness project at "Latin Patriarchate School Shafa Badran" . The team worked on a set plan to provide the largest possible impact on the Students.
A team of volunteers from Dar Al Handasah - Beirut office Joined the Sustainability Movement 2018 Campaign to work on a Sustainability & Environmental awareness project at "Soeurs des Saints Coeurs Couvent " . The team worked on a set plan to provide the largest possible impact on the Students.
PA Build My Future expo gives high school students the opportunity to have a day to work in the construction and design industry through an interactive showcase.
USGBC staff will volunteer with Martha's Table, a local organization that gives out fresh fruits and vegetables to families in under-served neighborhoods. The food markets are run at schools, and parents and students often come together.
1 hour Interactive awareness presentation
3 hours Hands-on Activity:
Storm water collection for irrigation use
Plant a Vegetable Garden
Preserve Day: A Celebration of GA's Outdoor Spaces
https://www.germantownacademy.net/distinctly-ga/preserve-day
Saturday, October 20, 2018, 11am – 1pm
Presented by the Nature Program and Parents' Preserve Day Committee
The Philbrick School is requesting funding to create a Habitat Garden on the grounds of the school; an outdoor space for all community members (e.g. students, teachers, staff and parents) to learn, work, and play while connecting to nature in meaningful ways.
Students, their parents and staff will work together to create a seasonal landscape using plants and other natural materials.
The U.S. Green Building Council Maryland Community is continuing to work with Garrett Heights Elementary Middle School on their outdoor classroom, and projects to enhance their outdoor space. Volunteers are needed to support this special workday!
Dress appropriately for the weather and service project tasks:
Painting
A team of volunteers from Dar Al Handasah - Pune office Joined the Sustainability Movement 2018 Campaign to work on a Sustainability & Environmental awareness project at "SOS Children's Village Pune" . The team worked on a set plan to provide the largest possible impact on the Students.
The Tower Companies is partnering with the Audubon Naturalist Society (ANS) based in Chevy Chase, MD to assist in restoration efforts at Woodend Sanctuary. Woodend Sanctuary is a beautiful 40-acre property, which is currently undergoing a 50 year master restoration plan.
A team of volunteers from Dar Al Handasah - Dubai office Joined the Sustainability Movement 2018 Campaign to work on a Sustainability & Environmental awareness project at "The International School of Choueifat - Dubai" . The team worked on a set plan to provide the largest possible impact on the Students.
USGBC staff volunteered to prepare the garden for winter at Green Ribbon School award-winner Yu Ying Charter School. We turned and removed the soil around the garden beds, laid down weed barrier, and replaced the soil. The school can now put down wood chips to make it easier for students to come out and have class in the garden space.
A team of volunteers from Dar Al Handasah - Beirut office Joined the Sustainability Movement 2018 Campaign to work on a Sustainability & Environmental awareness project at "Mabarrat Charity Association" . The team worked on a set plan to provide the largest possible impact on the Students.
A team of volunteers from Dar Al Handasah - Beirut office Joined the Sustainability Movement 2018 Campaign to work on a Sustainability & Environmental awareness project at "International School of Choueifat " . The team worked on a set plan to provide the largest possible impact on the Students.
The U.S. Green Building Council-Los Angeles (USGBC-LA) Chapter has selected its third annual Legacy Project, The Discovery Garden, created by the City of Simi Valley.
A team of volunteers from Dar Al Handasah - Cairo office Joined the Sustainability Movement 2018 Campaign to work on a Sustainability & Environmental awareness project at "Nermine Ismael International School" . The team worked on a set plan to provide the largest possible impact on the Students.
Boston Green Academy is the only school in the Boston Public Schools that has an Environmental Science and Technology Career and Technical Education Pathway. All twenty of the 10th graders in this pathway created the following project and will carry it out.
USGBC staff will volunteer with Martha's Table, a local organization that gives out fresh fruits and vegetables to families in under-served neighborhoods. The food markets are run at schools, and parents and students often come together.
GBCI India partnered with TERI School of Advanced Studies for the Climate Jamboree 2018, attended by over 7000 students from schools across the National Capital Region. Youth were engaged and and empowered to build a sustainable future through multiple workshops during the three day engagement.
We will be creating an outdoor garden classroom on the school property. We will begin by planting vegetables in raised planters, construct potting benches, and add stepping stones.
A team of volunteers from Dar Al Handasah - Beirut office Joined the Sustainability Movement 2018 Campaign to work on a Sustainability & Environmental awareness project at "Dar Al Aytam Islamic - School" . The team worked on a set plan to provide the largest possible impact on the Students.
The team at Miron Construction is excited to bring back the "Be Green" video contest. We had so many great submissions last year, including the winning submission from Madison Elementary School here in Stevens Point, that we decided to up the ante this year.
USGBC staff will volunteer with Martha's Table, a local organization that gives out fresh fruits and vegetables to families in under-served neighborhoods. The food markets are run at schools, and parents and students often come together.
We will be hanging up multiple posters around the football field to encourage recycling of cardboard boxes. We will also be attending a few games to talk to people about the importance of recycling and remind people where to put their recycling.
For our EcoLeaders project, 6 University of Nebraska-Lincoln students will present to five 5th grade classrooms about what it means to "go green," what happens to their trash, and the importance of conserving energy.
A presentation on methods of conserving energy in classrooms will be presented to students. The purpose is to inform students about different energy sources in the classroom and ways that they can conserve that energy.
We presented a project about scarcity and the Tragedy of the Commons to a class of 2nd graders using a nonrenewable resource: Goldfish. We had the students sit in a circle then passed a bowl around first telling them to take as many as they wanted.
Create a booth teaching students about what they can do to conserve water and electricity as well as recycle.
The students will be working in groups for about two weeks starting November 6th in their science classes. They would have finished their science lessons on heat transfer, insulation, efficiency., etc.and math lessons on percentage, discounts, areas, etc.
Our group is going to do a presentation for a fourth grade class about recycling to educate and promote sustainability.
Our team's project's goal is to educate and inspire students, teachers and staff about our impact on the Environment and benefits of having Sustainability goals.
Technical Customer Service is excited to participate in the Green Apple Day of Service by picking a day this fall, and working together as a team to prioritize inquiries from students, teachers, schools, colleges, and universities, and inquiries from consultants regarding educational project types.
Five third grade classes, approximately 125 students will benefit from the Munsey School STEAM Garden. Students will learn how to plant and cultivate a garden of assorted winter vegetables. Each of the five classes will be responsible for monitoring the growth of vegetables in each of the six planters.
USGBC staff will volunteer with Martha's Table, a local organization that gives out fresh fruits and vegetables to families in under-served neighborhoods. The food markets are run at schools, and parents and students often come together.
A team of volunteers from Dar Al Handasah - Cairo office Joined the Sustainability Movement 2018 Campaign to work on a Sustainability & Environmental awareness project at "Evolution International School" . The team worked on a set plan to provide the largest possible impact on the Students.
A team of volunteers from Dar Al Handasah - Beirut office Joined the Sustainability Movement 2018 Campaign to work on a Sustainability & Environmental awareness project at "Saint Mary's Orthodox College" . The team worked on a set plan to provide the largest possible impact on the Students.
A team of volunteers from Dar Al Handasah - Beirut office Joined the Sustainability Movement 2018 Campaign to work on a Sustainability & Environmental awareness project at "SOS Lebanon HQ School" . The team worked on a set plan to provide the largest possible impact on the Students.
A team of volunteers from Dar Al Handasah - Beirut office Joined the Sustainability Movement 2018 Campaign to work on a Sustainability & Environmental awareness project at "MAR ELIAS Orthodox-TRIPOLI" . The team worked on a set plan to provide the largest possible impact on the Students.
USGBC staff will volunteer with Martha's Table, a local organization that gives out fresh fruits and vegetables to families in under-served neighborhoods. The food markets are run at schools, and parents and students often come together.
USGBC staff will volunteer with Martha's Table, a local organization that gives out fresh fruits and vegetables to families in under-served neighborhoods. The food markets are run at schools, and parents and students often come together.
Stake fallen trees on campus, weed outdoor classroom and butterfly garden, assist teachers with new plantings in planter boxes, assist with planting two new trees, and seal new stumps in outdoor classroom seating area.
1. Assess and repair greenhouse and repair/restore planter boxes.
2. Implement a year-long sustainable gardening lesson plan into science curriculum.
Stagger grade units so that maintenance of plants is continuous through the school year (4th would plant seeds, 6th grade would harvest, etc.)
Parents and volunteers, including USGBC staff, cleaned up a garden that was going to redesigned at the school by Fresh Farm DC. The garden had some rat burrows and was not laid out for best use by the students. The new garden will be used as a teaching tool and food garden for students.
Grimm and Parker Architects partnered with the William S. Schmidt Center for Environmental Learning and Outdoor Education to lead teachers at Fairmont Heights High School (recently opened new school and LEED Gold Certified) through a professional development worksession.
There is an existing Science Garden at Banyan Creek Elementary that was in need of cleaning up, replanting of planter beds, painting of planter beds and benches, etc.
Throughout the years the Guatemalan public education system has suffer from different deficiencies both, in infrastructure and in quality of information taught to children. Having this in mind, we chose to focus on school sponsorships for our Green Apple Day of Service initiatives.
Our team's project's goal is to educate and inspire students, teachers and staff about our impact on the Environment and benefits of having Sustainability goals.
USGBC staff volunteered with Martha's Table to hand out free fruits and vegetables to students and families at KIPP Douglass at their Joyful Food Market.
USGBC staff volunteered with Martha's Table to hand out free fruits and vegetables to students and families at Early Childhood Academy at their Joyful Food Market.
Our team's project's goal is to educate and inspire students, teachers and staff about our impact on the Environment and benefits of having Sustainability goals.
Our team's project's goal is to educate and inspire students, teachers and staff about our impact on the Environment and benefits of having Sustainability goals.
A team from Gilbane Building Company delivered a presentation to approximately 65 students as well as teachers and school administrations regarding sustainability in construction and the future of the construction industry as it relates to green building and sustainable processes and principles.
A team of volunteers from Dar Al Handasah - Pune office Joined the Sustainability Movement 2018 Campaign to work on a Sustainability & Environmental awareness project at "High Vision English Medium School" . The team worked on a set plan to provide the largest possible impact on the Students.
Understanding the components of CO2, how it's created and its impact in the classroom. Use CO2 monitor to measure and explain to students how CO2 concentrations build up. Outline steps to improve air quality.
A team of volunteers from Dar Al Handasah - Beirut office Joined the Sustainability Movement 2018 Campaign to work on a Sustainability & Environmental awareness project at "Al Amir Shakib Irslan Public School" . The team worked on a set plan to provide the largest possible impact on the Students.
Funding is requested for a portion of a "start up" project of beautifying a barren area of the school ground that is presently unused and is often trashed. The area measures some 50 X 100 feet and has three small trees and 3 old benches and an old table. It is currently an eyesore as people walk through it and toss their trash.
To design and build an inexpensive and effective hydroponics system for schools
Students will be conducting an energy audit on items at school. There will be a discussion on what they can do to conserve energy in their every day life. The project will be done with two groups of students.
Students will be conducting an energy audit on items at school. There will be a discussion on what they can do to conserve energy in their every day life. The project will be done with two groups of students.
USF workday to do the maintenance of the vegetable garden.
This is the first year our school is truly focused on sustainability efforts. Sustainability (such as recycling, using less energy, reducing, etc.) is new to many students, families, and staff members in our community.
My classroom is a home away from home for the 65 4th and 5th graders that come through the door every day. My students often see their teachers and classmates more than their own families and have a strong bond as a classroom community.
My kindergarteners would like to learn about the environment using Lakeshore’s learning tubs.
The Green Team at I.S. 240 A. H. Magnet School of Stem has launched a recycling campaign to cut down the use of plastic bottles. They have chosen to make a difference in our environment by using reusable water bottles instead of purchasing, and recycling one each day.
The Green Team at I.S. 240 A. H. Magnet School of Stem has launched a recycling campaign to cut down the use of plastic bottles. They have chosen to make a difference in our environment by using reusable water bottles instead of purchasing, and recycling one each day.
Vegetable Garden Installment.
Becker Elementary, built in 1936, is located in south Austin, Texas. Students enrolled in the school's Two-Way Dual Language program study in both English and Spanish. The school offers an excellent enrichment academic program and also has a chicken coop and green garden classroom, where each class tends its own garden plot.
We have small orchard with some fruit trees (apple, peach, and pear) that have been planted over the years. However, the orchard area is not mulched, and it is cumbersome for custodians to mow around the trees, especially if there is any fallen fruit on the ground.
Sustainability (such as recycling, using less energy, reducing, etc.) is new to many students, families, and staff members in our community. We started a "Green Team" of about 35 students, grades Pre-K through second, to help spread awareness and understanding of sustainability.
The Green Science Fair organized by a student-led Horizon Middle School Green Team included interactive displays about alternative energy (sunlight, water, wind), composting worms (red wigglers), how to Reduce-Reuse-Recycle-Repurpose, and numbers from the local landfill detailing how (via a reduction in metric tons) the city of Kearney, NE has r
My hope is to reduce paper usage in the classroom by providing whiteboard tables.
Our goal as an Eco Club at Ashwaubenon High School is to provide clean and more efficient energy for our school. We want to start the process of using less fossil fuel-based energy that creates air pollutants and increase the amount of clean energy.
The objective of this Recycler Machine is to reduce solid wastes that we are going to produce in our event named Pachas Fest 2019. Recycler Machine is used in order to deposit inside it; plastic bottles, plastic cups, TetraPak containers, and batteries. This way, we are going to reduce solid wastes that would arrive to the landfill.
At Fernbank Elementary, we go GREEN! We implement recycling in all classrooms and hallways--paper/cardboard and plastic are placed in the recycling by our school community.
To raise awareness of conservation efforts by using whiteboard tables instead of paper.
Water bottle refilling station
Our school has had the amazing opportunity to send our 5th graders to Nature Bridge for the last 20 years. With increasing costs, our students and their families are having a harder time affording to go.
Girls For A Change (GFAC) is a nonprofit that empowers black girls in metro RVA to visualize their bright futures and potential. Our Chesterfield center offers after-school and summer programs for first through eighth graders.
Discussed with 7th Graders about Climate Change, Global Warming and impacts of energy use on the society and the environment. Discussed issues at the national, regional, state and local levels and ways in which they can be addressed by renewable energy, efficiency and conservation and how students can help reduce their own footprint.
My project is called Help Us Dig It: Building an Outdoor Learning Lab for Providence Middle School. The goal of our project is to construct an outdoor area where our students can learn about growing food, observe nature, and have more access for learning outside.
My students have identified an area of our school grounds, secured the necessary permissions, and have made connections with local garden clubs and cooperative extension members to help get this project done.
Clean up and plant new herbs and vegetables in our edible garden. We also want to create a compost bin in our garden to help create fertilizer for the garden and help with trash around campus. We will be creating the compost using wooden pallets at our school.
Whiteboards are are perfect for "green" guided practice and recording new strategies we are learning. They allow my students the ability to record, share, and discuss their thinking. Unfortunately, regular sized dry erase boards are far too small for some concepts, or ideas, and limit my students' creativity.
Through the Green Schools Quest, an annual project-based challenge issued by the U.S.
Provide 2nd students with children's literature on the subject of soils, composting and ecology. This grant will also be used to purchase a composting bin, buckets and pick sticks to allow students to participate in keeping our school clean.
Every year, my students complete an Earth Day Project. We learn about how society is currently trashing the Earth and how we need to be respectful and love the Earth. We will spend our class period collecting trash that has carelessly been left by uninformed peers.
Students will work with teachers to improve movement in the classrooms by the use of Kagan Structures which include fun movement with activities. We will host a fun run , which students will invite guests to come exercise with them at school. This will improve their health.
USGBC staff volunteered through the local non-profit Martha's Table to provide fruits and vegetables to students and their families in an under-served area of DC. The market was a "Stay and Play" market, which meant there were also cooking demonstrations and games to educate students and parents about healthy eating and new foods.
Our students are attempting to raise awareness about the waste issue of plastic water bottles. We are setting up a booth on Earth day to trade out all disposable water bottles for reusable water bottles. Our students aim to help reduce landfill waste.
In class, my students and I look for ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle. The children are cognizant of turning off the lights when they exit the room. They recycle paper, plastic water bottles, cans, and cardboard. We also have a worm composite in our classroom.
Paint and Clean up areas, bathrooms, create and designer gardens and orchard with recicle pots and wheels.
We read "Why Should I Recycle?" by Jen Green. We talked as a group about recycling and composting, with many of the students eager to share about their practices at home. A bag of materials was brought in, and each student had the opportunity to decide if a particular material would go to the landfill, recycling center, or compost.
Recycling is going through a huge overhaul, due to declining markets and contamination of recyclable materials. It is projected that Millennials will be the largest consumer group in the next few years with a strong influence on the retail market.
Purpose
Present science concepts of thermal energy and its interaction with buildings and show how architects and engineers make decisions.
Question to students
How do architects and engineers consider heat interaction when designing a building?
Clean up the beaches of Jacksonville beach. Reduce litter on our beaches.
Have you ever wondered about the plants all around you?
Miles Jones is an urban school in the city of Richmond, Virginia. This is a Title 1 school and 100% of the students are on the free lunch program. Approximately 25% of the 650 students are ESL students. Teachers at the school have been trying to raise the awareness of environmental issues and outside opportunities with our students.
Eco Urban Gardens will be hosting students and community volunteers at the Arroyo High School Garden to assist with the installation of the Regenerative Learning Garden.
My students care about their environment as well as their health. They all enjoy maintaining the school-based organic garden. The produce they grow, they take home and share with their families. Many times this is a great way to have parents more involved with the school.
Our school has signed up to participate in the Connect the Dots Green School Challenge with USGBC. Some of the goals in this partnership are "environmental stewardship, community outreach and to compliment curriculum standards." After meeting with school representatives and our assigned mentors, we developed a three-prong project.
MRHMS students are going out into the community to lend a helping hand in neighborhood gardens, public parks, and neighborhood spaces.
Students from the Environmental Science class at the University of Nebraska are going to be working with our garden club students to help them build and create Monarch butterfly boxes and insect homes for our garden. We hope that these boxes will help the monarch population increase and help them as them migrate through Nebraska.
Our goal is to build 4 raised beds where our students can plant, tend and harvest vegetables and flowers.
We are eager to explore our theme: The Three R's: Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling
These books, like Michael Recycles, will introduce the theme and help develop skills which will stay with them for a lifetime.
We will be hosting a campus wide clean up in honor of upcoming Earth Day. We will be building a water shed in our WISE Garden (Wildcats Initiative for a Sustainable Environment) with upcycled rain barrels being build off a fence using sheet metal as a make-shift "roof" on a wooden frame.
At our Green Apple Day of Service (April 8th, Earth Day event) our students will be completing service projects across our campus.
This is our 10th year having the Activism Fair at Dundee Crown and the students always get compliments from the organizations that attend. We will have organizations representing a variety of foundations including suicide and mental health awareness, environmental, and animal welfare.
This project aims to restore a small parcel of eroded lands and that currently produce problems of poor air quality to which the students are exposed, turning them into urban farms. The activity will be carried out in two stages, the first will be a short talk on sustainability and why it is important, aimed at students and their parents.
Alder Elementary is located in one of the most poverty impacted areas in Oregon and in a large hub of diverse immigrant populations. 84% of Alder students are children of color, 100% receive free/reduced price lunch, and many are bi-lingual, with 26 languages spoken in their homes.
How do we, as protectors of Earth, go beyond everyday recycling efforts and increase recovery and recycling rates of plastic films? Education and awareness.
Honeybees are such an important part of human existence and the recent negative impacts on hives and colonies have us concerned. We are located in a rural part of Pennsylvania where agriculture is a way of life for many people.
The Goddard School of Weston is participating in the Goddard’s Root for the Earth Campaign all during the month of April, 2019. Root for the Earth helps to promote environmental awareness in our community.
My students need a set of color toner, Magnetic Notebook Paper, and a Magnetic Paper Clip Holder for an Earth Day art, science, and writing a combined project.
Our School is participating in a school wide day of service for Earth Day! Activities will include: planting our school garden, picking up trash in the neighbor and learning about reducing our carbon footprint!
We will need all hands on deck to help expand our outdoor learning spaces at James Madison Elementary. On this day, we are making improvements to the schoolyard! We will be adding more trails to our 2 acre outdoor classroom and possibly planting a few new trees to our prairie area.
USGBC staff will volunteer through local non-profit Martha's Table to provide fresh fruits and vegetables to students and their families in an under-served area of DC.
Students and staff from Irving Middle School will do a park clean-up for the areas around the Irving school grounds. The area may include; Irvingdale Park, Stransky Park, and Rudge Park, along with the school grounds around Irving. This activity is sponsored by the Green Club and is being used to celebrate Earth Week!
Parkside Elementary School is saying "NO" to Styrofoam: On Friday April 19, the school cafeteria will use biodegradable trays and cutlery in place of the Styrofoam and single-use plastic that they normally use for every meal, every day.
Our garden area is going to be starting a composting area, where we will begin composting our cafeteria food waste. The students will receive classroom lessons on composting, recycling and a speaker will come from our City Waste Management Department.
Our school's Green Team is hosting a school-wide Recycled Art Show. We want to showcase staff and student talent as well as bring awareness to water and environmental conservation efforts. We will use money from last year's USGBC grant to offer prizes and local celebrities from the Nebraska Recycling Council, UNL, and Jr.
We are creating an event focusing on Global Sustainability and Pollinators centering on Hemp education and community involvement in Agricultural Communities by including this as a Green Apple Week of Service Project coinciding with our 2019 Earth-Ag Spring Festival in Hanford, Ca.
We revamped our Ethel Street Garden last year and opened it up to all students at our school. Our TK-2nd grade classes have been rotating through the garden with a trained Garden Ranger. It is now time to expand the garden to more easily accommodate our 3rd-5th grade classes.
Join Grimm + Parker Architects, the Chadwick Elementary School community, and Baltimore County Public Schools (and friends) on Saturday, April 27th 9 am - early afternoon to improve a wooded area and transform it into an Outdoor Learning Area.
We are eager to explore our theme: The Three R's: Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling
These books, like Recycle Everyday, will introduce the theme and help develop skills which will stay with them for a lifetime.
As part of Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts (PHSSA) charter, sustainability was established as a core focus of the schools education mission. All grade levels at PHSSA make use of curriculum that involves use of gardens on site at PHSSA.
Cole Elementary students will print prosthetic hand parts using 3D printing technology. These parts will be assembled by a Boy Scout Troop. Twenty prosthetic hands will be assembled and donated to children who are missing their hands. The e-Nable organization will distribute the prosthetic hands to children to who are in need.
River's Edge Academy hosts a bi-annual River Mile Cleanup along our local stretch of the Mississippi, picking up trash and debris and disposing of it appropriately, or putting it in our River Mile Cleanup display to raise awareness of river pollution and to demonstrate our impact.
Some projects include:
Cleaning out the sand box
Painting
Weeding
broken equipment repair
Tidy up messy hallways
Clean windows
Ball return from the roof
Specific class room repairs on handy tasks
Clean the stage cabinets
Donate, recycle or trash unwanted items.
Join USGBC Central Ohio to help transform the exterior of Hamilton STEM Academy in the Linden neighborhood of Columbus into a more welcoming and healthy environment.
Tampa Bay Farm2School.com is currently working with Greco STEM students to build a compost system at the community garden located on school property. Tampa Bay Farm2School is hosting and will provide management of this new community soil making site. The compost bins are a project of Greco STEM students.
Valencia Newcomer School is a very unique inner city school in Phoenix, Arizona, a member of the Alhambra Elementary School District. We are one of a few in the country that exclusively serve our local immigrant/refugee population. Our garden is in the beginning stages of development.
This team of students is passionate about creating awareness among our student body of the many issues threatening our oceans today including plastic pollution, oil pollution, over-fishing, ocean acidification and climate change.
Students will create emergency preparedness kits to have on hand at school in case of a natural, weather or another related emergency. The kits will be small enough to store in a classroom and will also be used to educate the Webber community on how to build an emergency kit for student homes.
The resources I have selected for my classroom are to enhance individual and group learning while teaching my students to be conscious of waste. I would like to teach math and reading using white board tables. I believe students need to understand the subject AND the important lesson of saving paper and caring for our planet.
"Caravan for the Planet" is a project on how we can reduce energy and water consumption. It is a project developed and managed by school students to learn about the value of one of the most precious natural resources and at the same time to promote more sustainable strategies on energy and water use.
"Caravan for the Planet" is a project on how we can reduce energy and water consumption. It is a project developed and managed by school students to learn about the value of one of the most precious natural resources and at the same time to promote more sustainable strategies on energy and water use.
"Caravan for the Planet" is a project on how we can reduce energy and water consumption. It is a project developed and managed by school students to learn about the value of one of the most precious natural resources and at the same time to promote more sustainable strategies on energy and water use.
we want to teach our kids about climate change and make them aware about the impact of their daily actions with games, activities, stories and songs
With the leadership of first and sixth grade, we will be planting our 2019 Giving Garden on our Green Apple Day of Service.
Students at our school all have significant challenges to their ability to learn and to be independent. Students have disabilities that range from moderate to severe cognitive impairment, physical impairment and autism. These disabilities radically impact all areas of their daily experiences and independence.
My students are a beautiful mix of focused young people.Through the school's mission, 90% of my students will graduate to post-secondary education. In order to maintain these high expectations, the students deserve to learn in a manner that best fits their learning style.
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." ~W.B. Yeats.
My students are inner-city youth confronted with many obstacles, both on and off campus. They are determined, toughened, and raw, but they also dream. They want better for themselves and their families. A challenge brings out the best in each of them and they crave those types of opportunities.
Please help my class get reusable water bottles! My students get thirsty throughout the day and the only way for them to get water is to walk down the hallway to the closest water fountain.
All of our students have seen plastic bags in the community and may know of the damage they cause in landfills and to our ocean animals. Our classes only have one loom on which to take plastic bags and transform them into bedrolls, pillows, and other useful items.
Our overall project has three components. The first is to establish a recycling program at the school. The second is attach a rain barrel with a solar powered pump to the module in the back. The third is to enlarge the existing garden, with edible plants, and to create a compost bin.
Students must have access to rich, hands-on lab activities in order to understand how real science works and how real scientists solve important problems.
This is a two part service project, between elementary and high school students. Working with art and computer science teachers, elementary students are designing and planning a site-specific crosswalk for school campus. This is happening on two elementary school campuses.
We created this project to get the students more aware of the environment. We chose the pollinator garden because we have open space on the roof and a greenhouse that has not been used for years. On December 1st we set up shop and assembled 3 planter boxes for this project.
Students from the Green Entrepreneurship Class and the Green Cooking Club at IDEA learn about sustainable urban gardening practices, grow their own food for cooking classes, and research and develop innovative solutions for environmental challenges like watershed management.
The purpose of our project is to fix the drainage issues at our school. We identified three main problem areas and their probable causes. We labeled them and divided into teams.
The Binford Garden Club was established as a scheduled elective class for students at Binford Middle School in grades 6-8 as part of a new club program developed for the 2016-2017 school year. The club aims to cultivate the interests of students in gardening and caring for the environment.
We are focused on the improvement of our Schoolyard Habitat, including the use of our new outdoor classroom for teaching, the use of our vegetable garden for teaching, our butterfly garden and pollinator pledge to increase pollinators, and to increase the general behavioral patterns of staff members to commit to community service with our studen
This project will help students express their knowledge and understanding. So far this year, students have spent time learning the foundation of knowledge and skills they will need as they move forward in the world of sustainability.
The re-usable water bottles will benefit our students so that they do not get dehydrated during field day which is a day that students spend outside playing multiple games and activities. It is usually held in June when it is hot outside and the students are thirsty.
The re-usable water bottles will benefit our students so that they do not get dehydrated during field day which is a day that students spend outside playing multiple games and activities. It is usually held in June when it is hot outside and the students are thirsty.
This project allows students to learn about the importance of reusing and saving money. With Earth Day just around the corner, why not learn about why reusing also helps save money. These items will be used immediately. Many steps that consumers can take to save money can also have a positive impact on the environment.
Our goal was to increase environmental and sustainability literacy in pre-schoolers by carrying out workshops with kids and teachers.
Our Environmental Club here at Sentinel High School would like to apply for the Green Apple Day of Service grant. This year’s environmental goal focuses on water conservation and sustainability. After an extensive brainstorming session, we hoped to use this money to purchase 100 - 16 oz coffee flasks/water bottles from Hydroflask.
Dry erase tables help reduce paper waste since less worksheets will be printed.
My students will decorate these awesome reusable tote bags for lunch and/or shopping. It is an art project that will also teach children the importance of recycling and not using plastic bags for one time use that fill our land fills.
The students will be participating in a stem activity in order to assist and recycling during lunch time.
Creating a garden as a learning tool and to provide produce to cultural association and local community.
Creating a garden as a learning tool and to provide produce to cultural association and local community.
William S. Baer School is a public school in Baltimore City for children with severe disabilities. We would like to work with the school to create an outdoor track for the students to use for outdoor activities and physical training exercises.
Go into any elementary school cafeteria at lunch and you will see a trash can overflowing with food waste. Despite our small school size, three to four large trash cans are filled every day with food waste and trash.
Help me give my students hand towels and the materials needed to wash and dry them naturally.
My first, second, and third graders will learn both practical life, environmental, science, and citizenship lessons as they work together in my Montessori classroom using, washing, drying, and caring for their new hand towels.
Help me give my students actual dishes and silverware instead of paper, plastic, and styrofoam as we learn to reduce, reuse, and recycle while preparing and sharing our lunchtime as a family.
Help me give my students a composter and rain barrel to use in their vegetable garden so they can help make the planet healthier as they learn to be healthier themselves.
My Montessori classroom integrates practical life into the daily curriculum which includes an outdoor learning environment and vegetable garden.
Help me give my students planters for our outdoor learning environment, so they can plant, care for, harvest, and then EAT vegetables as they learn more about plants and the world around them.
Getting Dirty to Get Cleaner Eating Habits! Potting Soil, Please!
Help me give my students organic potting soil and water-conserving coconut coir to plant their vegetable garden as they learn, grow, harvest, and EAT more nutritious snacks in our environmentally focused outdoor learning environment.
We Want to Welcome Our Fine Feathered Friends
Help me give my students a solar powered bird bath, bird feeder, and bird seed to observe, study, and help wild birds as we become better environmental citizens and make the world better for people and animals.
We Cannot Make a Tree, but We Really Need Three
Help me give my students three live trees for our outdoor learning environment which is currently surrounded by concrete and brick walls so they learn about and experience the benefits we all get from trees, while becoming environmentalists.
Help me give my students a chance to earn their green thumbs with garden beds!
The mission is to create an outdoor facility for education in mindfulness and environmental conservation. We want to accomplish this by restoring outdoor learning areas, provide opportunities to exponentially teach the science and economics of healthy farming and eating, and improve the sustainability of the Forest Oak Middle School campus.
Working with Early Childhood Health Outdoors (ECHO) we will build out a portion of their outdoor play area with a focus on natural play areas.
Forest Oak Middle School (FOMS) is a public school in Montgomery County, MD that serves nearly 900 students, the majority of which are Hispanic and African-American. The FOMS campus is unique in that it contains a variety of ecosystem types, including forest, stream, and meadow areas.
To fully enrich our science curriculum, students need to experience science first hand. This allows students to full grasp the wonders and awes of the science fields.
Construct raised beds for school and community garden.
This project seeks to bring all of our students together, from prekindergarten through grade 8, for the purpose of bringing our school garden beds to life.
We are a blended learning school focused on teaching through face-to-face, virtual, and independent learning. Many of our students are on their computers for at least 15-20 hours a week. We feel that a void that we have is a lack of focus on physical and mental well being through exercise, health education, and mindfulness exercises.