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
In this lesson, students learned the difference between weather and climate, and how the atmosphere protects us from harmful UV rays. We also explored how greenhouse gases in the atmosphere act like the glass on garden greenhouse, reflecting some of the sun’s radiation back to Earth and keeping us a nice warm average 18 degrees … Continued
Did you know that cavemen produced no waste at all? And that today we produce an average of 2.1kg of waste per person per day!?! That’s as much as a stack of field guide books – every day! What a difference a little time can make. Mr. Mac’s class made this discovery by dressing up … Continued
Back for a second year, Mr. Mac at TM Roberts in Cranbrook is keen to challenge his students to push themselves and commit to making their lifestyles more earth-friendly. This started with the first EcoChallenge of the year, inspired by learning about the history of our waste. Mr. Mac’s class challenged the other Beyond Recycling … Continued
Recently in Ms. Juliet’s Wildflower class in Creston, we appreciated the wonderful qualities of water! The students shared their appreciation for water like: they could drink it, swim in it, jump in puddles, watch the rain drop on a windowsill.
Today’s lesson was all about how people are interconnected and dependent with the incredible diversity of life on earth! Mr. Brauer’s grade 5/6 class at Yaqan Nukiy braved the cold morning for a brisk walk through the forest to get some insight on our relationship with nature. The students made great observations on how we … Continued
Sustainability was the theme of this week’s Beyond Recycling lesson at Begbie View Elementary school in Revelstoke. Though all of the students had heard of the word “sustainable”, we took part of the lesson to define the word so we could better understand what it means to live a sustainable life. We talked about the … Continued
When you get up in the morning and brush your teeth with your electric toothbrush, pull on your jeans and t-shirt, and grab a pencil to write down today’s to-do list, do you ever stop to think about how the batteries you use, jeans you wear and pencil you just used were made? It’s hard … Continued
