The students in Mrs. Spensely/Ms. Gibbard’s gr 5/6 class have been talking a lot about waste. Food waste in particular. The Beyond Recycling program starts with a unit on waste, and how waste has changed in type and amount over the years. The gr 5/6’s have been applying this learning to the delicious topic of … Continued
Beyond Recycling partnered with the RDCK for a pilot program to bring infrared cameras to three classrooms this winter. The cameras plug into iphone or android devices and make heat loss visible. Students from Twin Rivers Elementary in Castlegar, Adam Robertson Elementary in Creston and JV Humphries in Kaslo participated. Students from the three classes … Continued
The Gr. 5 students at Rossland Summit School held a very formal debate around the five energy sources: Fossil Fuels, Wind Power, Solar Power, Hydro Power, and Nuclear Power. Each group came very prepared, as well as in their best dressed, to share knowledge and pros and cons of all the energy sources. A pick … Continued
As a final wrap up celebration, Mrs. Spensely/Ms Gibbard’s class had one more food related activity: a Real Food Potluck! Real Food is defined as: · Nutritious: healthy · Near: local · Now: seasonal · Naked: not packaged in disposable wrappers · Natural: whole foods or not heavily processed The students did a great job … Continued
Students in Mrs Julie’s class at Mc Kim school in Kimberley, spent the last few weeks of March researching the various types of Energy and their impacts on our planet. Students worked together to learn all about their energy sources and those of the other debating teams. The lively “tennis match” style debate was full … Continued
Water is a necessity of life, so that means that everyone alive has sufficient water, right? Wrong! As the grade 5/6’s in Mrs. Reinarz’s class learned through the Our Water activity, there is not enough available clean water to meet the worlds use. During this activity, students had to decide how to distribute water among … Continued
Our class EcoChallenge came at the same time as there was much discussion in our community and the broader Canadian community about single use plastics, in particular plastic bags. The challenge we came up with was to create a bin for a local grocery store to implement in their store as a “Take a Bag, … Continued
November 15, 2019 Today our class got to wrap up our unit on lifecycles by making paper! This was a much anticipated lesson by the class (one student actually requested it before knowing it was on the schedule)! Up to this point the class had learned about resources and the lifecycle of the things they … Continued
This was the first year I was a Beyond Recycling Educator, I faced a number of challenges but was always excited to teach these classes, and would leave the school feeling uplifted! The challenges I faced were largely around: 1. Feeling confident and prepared for each lesson 2. Working with a busy schedule on both … Continued
Is your water clean? Is it accessible? As it turns out, this depends on where you live in the world. As Mme Lapierre’s class discovered, most Canadians have access to clean drinking water but many people around the world do not. This week’s lesson, Our Water, had the students re-enacting two alternative water accessibility scenarios. … Continued
