Mme. Whittick’s students set up a recycling station in their classroom last week. The grade 6 & 7s took scrap paper and old newspaper and transformed them into colourful art supplies to be used in a future project. After weeks of discussing our waste-filled consumer habits and all the necessary processing of our stuff, the students put … Continued
Where does your power come from? The grade 6/7 students at Windermere Elementary can now follow their energy from the dam all the way to the outlet. Looking first at the benefits of electricity and how our lives would be different without power, the students in Mme Whittick’s class discussed the environmental impacts of both renewable … Continued
What a rainbow! The grade 4/5 students in Mrs. King’s class at J.A. Laird made an impressive rainbow of recycled paper this week. They’ve been learning about “closing the loop” of our waste – which means changing the linear life cycle of an item into a loop, where the “waste” materials are re-used as something … Continued
