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
“Reduce Reuse Recycle” has been a common motto over the course of the Beyond Recycling year. However, recently students at Martin Morigeau School in Canal Flats were challenged to put the “reuse” statement into action. Students were first introduced to others around the world who have made amazing products, objects, tools, or toys from items … 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
“Wow, that was so fun and so messy” replied a student in Mrs Kauffman’s class at Mc Kim school a few weeks ago. As a Beyond Recycling Educator, the paper making lesson is one of my favourite classes. I used to be a little apprehensive to do this lesson but now its my favourite and … Continued
Students at St Marys school had a chance to learn about how water is valuable to all and so limited in various parts of the world. Through an interactive activity students worked together as a “village” to determine how they would allocate water to 3 main areas (Agriculture, Industry and Human needs) depending on their … Continued
This week the students at St Mary’s school were busy creating their Trash to Treasure projects. The students will share their work with the entire school during Earth Week. If the students weren’t already busy with their regular classwork and T2T project, they chose to take on another project to honour the Earth and show … Continued
Grade 6 students at St Mary’s Catholic Independent School in Cranbrook went on a fun journey through time. Students explored the various ways humans have dealt with waste over the years. Some students bravely got dressed up as historical characters as the class learned how human innovation, agriculture, industry and behavioural change have had an … Continued
