As a wrap-up to Beyond Recycling at Hume School we celebrated with a Real Food Feast. The students were challenged to bring something to share with the class that was nutritious, grown locally, grown organically, homemade without unknown ingredients, used little to no disposable packaging and available in season. After introducing how and why each … Continued
The grade six students from Isabella Dicken Elementary School took the challenge to take things they would normally recycle or throw away and turn it into something useful again. Students really took this challenge to heart and made some amazing items that extended the lifecycle of the materials they used.
The students of Ms. Juliet’s Wildflower class did a plastic free lunch week right after spring break this year. In preparation for this Eco Challenge we made beeswax wraps and sewed some drawstring bags that could be used for snacks in their lunch kits.
We took a Good Food Field Trip to Save-On Foods to investigate food choices at one of our local grocery stores.
When we did our Real Food Potluck at Ms. Juliet’s Wildflower class there was an interesting theme that kept coming up as the students described their dishes they brought- family! Some brought homemade salsa made by grandma with tomatoes from their garden. Others brought cookies and bread made with their mom’s help. Another student brought … Continued
Climate change is a challenging topic to grasp, so thankfully Mrs. Turcon’s class had a series of visuals to help them work through it. First, a model scale was created to help visualize the balance between carbon producers (forest fires, volcanoes, humans burning fossil fuels) and carbon absorbers (trees, oceans). With this, students could see … Continued
Mrs. Turcon’s grade 5s and 6s at McKim Middle School are learning all about how they can make their lives more earth-friendly, and go Beyond Recycling. As part of the first unit of lessons on waste, the class learned how to make new paper out of old paper. They started by tossing scraps of paper … Continued
And the Best Energy Source is…Well, that depends. Where are you? What time of day is it? What natural resources do you have available? How much money do you have? And, who is debating the topic? Mme. Webster’s grade 6 class rose to the occasion and debated the pros and cons of 5 different energy … Continued
Scrap paper was the primary ingredient in Mme. Webster’s class’ fruit salad this November. The grade 6 students took the challenge of “closing the loop”, using waste material to create something new. In this case, they diverted scrap paper from the recycling and used it to make new paper – in the shape of fruits … Continued
Everything you use has a story. A beginning, a middle and an end. A story of extracting the ingredients, a story of manufacturing -or producing – the end product, a story of transportation, even a story of what happens after it’s useful time is over. The students in Mme. Webster’s grade 6 class at TM … Continued
