All GREEN Schools projects

The Nature Kids Club organized an entire school, community playground clean up. Students do appreciate a clean area to play in. ☺

The Nature Kids Club presented at an assembly challenged others to not throw garbage outside on the grass instead they could put it in the trash cans.

There are some Nature Kid Club Members whose classes are planting flowers and vegetables in our classrooms. It brings some oxygen into the learning environments & teaches students how to care for it.

The Nature Kids Club reminded other to turn off the taps off when they leave the washrooms because water is precious. Remember, no playing in the water and making messes! That is wasteful! There are people without clean any drinking water!

All classrooms turn their lights off when they are not in the room. The Nature Kids Club, made signs to go next to all of the light switches using recycled paper. This encouraged the entire school to turn the lights out when they left their rooms. If it is not necessary for lights, turn them off. If it is not necessary for technology, turn it off!

One student chose to focus on the bat during a structured mammal inquiry. He taught the class that bats "see with their ears," and we consolidated learning about echolocation and a little bit about predator/prey relationships by playing the game Bat & Moth outside.

Our Grade 5 class did a school clean up where we picked up trash from around our school to promote sustainability!

We began work on our outdoor classroom in the fall of 2015 securing funding and planning out what we wanted accomplish. By the fall of 2016 we completed our initial phase of the project. We wanted to turn an underused portion of our school field that held a small grove of trees into an outdoor classroom that our students could learn in.

We planted over 60 plants native to Alberta in...