Over the last few weeks, the students at St Mary’s Catholic school in Cranbrook have been working hard on an Inquiry based learning project. Each student, on their own or with a partner was to design a "City of the Future" . The outcome from this project was amazing!!! The students based their design on … Continued
It is Earth Week and the students at Kootenay Orchards and St Mary’s Cathoilic school are celebrating in style!! All 3 classes, taking part in the Beyond Recycling Program selected Trash to Treasure as their class project. The creations were awesome !!! Some examples of the amazing treasures were, a painted tire seat, juice box … Continued
Grade 4 and 5 students from South Nelson School spent all day Friday getting the low down on what we throw down. This enlightening tour to the Ootischenia Landfill, the Waste Management Recycling Materials Recycling Facility in Brilliant, the RDCK transfer station and the Nelson Leaf’s Bottle Depot illustrated for students what happens to our … Continued
This week, the students of Ms. Elias’ Gr 4/5 and Mrs. Evdokimoff’s Gr.5/6 classes got a chance to tour the Ootischenia Landfill and the Waste Management Recycling Facility in Brilliant. It was an eye opening experience for the students to see where our waste goes when we throw it ‘away’. At the Ootischenia Landfill, we … Continued
Mr. Marzke’s grade 4/5 class started April with a trip to our local landfill! This Creston Valley Landfill is about a 5-10min drive from the school so it really is in our backyard and reinforces the concept that there is no ‘away’. We can throw out our garbage, but it all stays on Earth, and … Continued
Students in Ms. Leaches class got outside to learn about various challenges that communities around the world face with “Our Water.” Students rotated between three communities with different water issues including Water Abundance, Water Scarcity and Economic Water Scarcity. Students worked in teams to determine how the water in each community would be used for … Continued
At South Nelson we are nature. However, sometimes as humans we forget that we are inseparable from the natural world. With this Beyond Recycling lesson we contemplated the complex connections between soil, water, air and sunshine and all living organisms, including us. We considered how each organism plays an important role in the intricate web … Continued
The students at Rossland Summit School were amazed at this hands-on activity in this weeks Beyond Recycling lesson, Sustainability. Their classroom floor was converted into a world map, however the countries were all odd sizes. This represented the population of each country according to its size on the floor. For example, North America was very … Continued
This week we looked at how we are all connected to the Earth. In the lesson, "We are Nature", the students discussed various ways in which we are all connected to our planet and how we have a role in protecting and taking care of it. One slide in the presentation, received much attention, that … Continued
The lesson on Water was an eye opener for many students today. It offered not only great discussion about how much is actually available for 7 billion people on our planet..less than 1%, but the students had the unique opportunity to work in groups having to ration, haul and try to not waste, the allocated … Continued
