Archive for September, 2009

Feeding our Eco-Silos

Our eco silos have been built and are being fed with organic material that comes from scraps left after the preparation of food in the HS kiosk and the Teachers Launch. We are happy that things are in place and the process has started.  The next steps are: to include other areas of our school and finally to [...]

September 29, 2009 ·  · No Comments
Posted in: Gardening/Composting

Put Your Green Foot Forward This School Year

Visit discoveryeducation.com/thinkgreen for a comprehensive set of free K-12 lessons, videos, and interactive tools that will reverse the way you think about waste. Highlights include: K-5: Teachers and students virtually sort through materials that would otherwise go to waste to discover different properties of various recyclable materials. 6-8: Students begin to think about their own [...]

September 24, 2009 ·  · No Comments
Posted in: Connections to curriculum

Be WISE – Activities for grades 5 to 12

WISE:  Web-based Inquiry Science Environment from Berkeley for grades 5-12, with one-week units on real-world evidence and current science controversies, including global climate change, hybrid cars, genetics, and recycling: http://www.wise.berkeley.edu. Sent by John Kurtenbach

September 15, 2009 ·  · 2 Comments
Posted in: Connections to curriculum, Our Carbon Footprint, Websites

Feeding the Future

Quechua Indians from the mountains of Peru have been granted money from a new multi-million global fund to preserve agricultural biodiversity. New studies and history has shown that agricultural biodiversity is essential to the resilience of agriculture. Climate changes will affect agriculture. New systems and mass production relies too much on a small range of [...]

September 14, 2009 ·  · One Comment
Posted in: Connections to curriculum, Gardening/Composting

Climate Change Solutions Poster Contest!

As the 40th anniversary of Earth Day approaches, it’s time to start this school year thinking green! Earth Day Network is holding a back-to-school Student Climate Change Solutions contest for K-4th graders. Winners will be announced on Earth Day Network’s website and newsletter and will receive a prize package, including an autographed copy of the [...]

September 10, 2009 ·  · 3 Comments
Posted in: Events