Student’s from Mrs. Broderick’s Beyond Recycling Class prepared, set up and ran a booth at their school’s Spring Fling. The booth had fun activities where players could test their recycling knowledge and learn more about where to recycle: small appliances (at the landfill), where to take hazardous waste (landfill on Saturday’s 10-4pm) and where to … Continued
Larry the Garbologist visited two Beyond Recycling classrooms to help do waste inventories. Some of the surprising things that Larry found in the classroom’s garbage cans were food waste and items that could be recycled. This inspired one of the classes to set up a compost bin in their classroom. The classes discussed how to … Continued
The students at McKim School took on the challenge to see if all the things they are learning in the Beyond Recycling class truly make a difference. Our Waste Trip adventure started at the Kimberley Transfer Station where they are piloting a new recycling program. The new program has been a real success. We then … Continued
On Tuesday, May 21, Ms. Newton’s grade 4/5 students at Begbie View Elementary school in Revelstoke held a potluck lunch with the challenge of bringing dishes that are made with real foods only, and as much local food as possible. And did the students ever deliver! After the students each gave a short presentation about … Continued
What is better than going on a education field trip? Biking there instead of taking the bus!! The students at Glenmerry Elementary in Trail BC jumped on their bikes and rode 13 km to visit 2 grocery stores as a part of the Beyond Recycling Good Food Field Trip. The students were ready to investigate … Continued
Ms. Newton’s grade 4/5 class form Begbie View Elementary went on a an informative and exciting local farm field trip May 14. Every student in the class hopped on a bike and cycled 2km to Track Street Growers urban farm in Revelstoke. Once there, farm owners Stu and Sarah, showed the class how their compost … Continued
On April 16, Ms. Gadbois’ grade 5 class from Arrow Heights Elementary school in Revelstoke went on a field trip to two different sites that deal with waste created in Revelstoke. The first stop of the trip was to the Landfill and Transfer station. After all the students piled onto the scale to get a … Continued
The grade 5 Twin Rivers class has been saving all the one time use plastic lunch snacks that their class uses since the beginning of the year. This pile has been growing remarkably quickly. We decided to do something about it. We would use natural materials to make reusable snack cloths that would reduce the … Continued
In November of 2018, both the Grade 5 and Grade 6 class at Twin Rivers took a trip to the various locations in their town where the waste and recycling ends up. It was such a powerful field trip to take for the students to have an experience to see what actually happens to their … Continued
Evolution of Waste On October 24th, 2018, we dove back in time to investigate the evolution of Waste and how we managed to have such a waste crisis on our hands now. We explored what we call waste and how that changed over hundreds of years. We traveled back in time to the various … Continued
