Use outdoor spaces for education
We have a large outdoor classroom that is an amphitheater that seats over 300 students. It is a great gathering space for kicking off school events and giving instruction in a larger setting. We also maintain a rain garden that has numerous native plants and a learning garden that can be used for more intimate courses of instruction. Four 4 x 12 planting rows help our students to roll up their sleeves and create their own green studies.
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Celebration Harvest/Plant fall greensOur Green Leaders celebrated their years accomplishments with certificate recognition, and tasting our summer harvest. We were hard at work harvesting their spring and summer crops and replacing them with fall greens. Planting edibles helps our students to learning about our seasons and the connection of time and life cycles in our world.
We have harvested and planted:
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Clean-upsClean-ups are an important part of getting out kids and parents involved in being a part of our environment. Our kids spend full workdays on school grounds. We all want the places where we spend our time to be a benificial environment. This allows everyone to have a personal stake in the game. The results bring about pride in where we work, learn and play. Our environment.
Our back to school clean-up kicked us off to a new year with a beautification of the grounds in the upper and lower building. Together we:
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International Walk to School Day: Oct 5, 2016 and Oct 4, 2017 (from six summits)Mt. Washington Green Committee oversaw and assisted with the Walk to School Day for 2016, and 2017. Kids and parents got to:
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Lunchtime Limbo
Green Committee played a role in assisting the Walk-A-Thon. A PTO fundraiser for the school. Green spaces were updated and monitored by Green Leaders. Energy Captains learned something special about energy transfer.
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Solar Panel TestingGreen Committee went to the Solar farm to gather ideas on solar power, creation and usage for Baltimore. We went along with Baltimore Energy Challenge colleagues. Together we:
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Student Activism to Vote Energy ComicsGreen Leaders and ECC members represented the hopes of our youth at Mount Washington.
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Recycling and composting structuresTogether we rolled up our sleeves and danced that fun line between work and play. Work worth doing is worthy, and play worth doing is worthy. With a common worthy cause, using our energy together is just right.
Together we created a compost structure for our school lunch. We purchased the kit and put together the hardware to achieve our goals. We updated the permanent compost structure that houses fall leaves. |
Earth Day CelebrationTogether our Green Council Leaders and Energy Captains ran information exhibits and games to share with all the kids of our school. We worked with our partners from the Mount Washington Preservation Trust to plant trees, plants, and shrubs. We mulched our other exposed green spaces with leaf mulch and wood chip mulch. Stopping erosion and nurturing our soil.
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