Last week, Ms. Elias’ Beyond Recycling class had an eye-opening discussion about the World’s water supply. Through hands-on demonstrations, the class was able to visualize just how precious clean water truly is. Despite the fact that our planet is covered by 70% water, only a tiny fraction of that water is usable to humans and … Continued
On Feb 18 JV Humphries students participated in Energy Debates! Students worked in groups to research their energy source (either Solar, Wind, Hydro, Nuclear, or Fossil Fuels) using the school’s ipads and Beyond Recycling student page resources. The debates went super well and students got pretty heated up to defend ‘their’ energy source!! For our … Continued
This week in the Beyond Recycling Class at Yaqan Nukiy, we got to use both our wit, our critical thinking and our research to hash out an Energy Debate! We had five teams: Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Nuclear Energy, Hydro Power and Fossil Fuels. Leading up to the Energy Debates, we have been discussing energy, … Continued
At South Nelson the grade 4/5 class has been engaged with the Beyond Recycling Program twice a week since the New Year. After many lessons, much diligent research and impressive presentations, it was time to celebrate by getting messy! To the chorus of 5 whirling blenders, all hands were on deck (including some awesome parent … Continued
After considering the typical life cycle of paper, students in Ms. Elias’ Gr.4/5 class at Twin Rivers got a chance to make their very own paper! With a pile of paper scraps from classroom recycling bins and a whole lot of enthusiasm, the class got to work blending, squeezing, and rolling pulp into paper. By … Continued
The students at Kootenay Orchards and St Mary’s Catholic school in Cranbrook. All the classes had the opportunity to learn about the "life cycle of stuff ". Students were able to take the information and dive in deeper with their groups to investigate a particular product. The students did an amazing job, sharing how their … Continued
First of all..Paper Making is so much fun and so messy!!! The students at both Kootenay Orchards and St Mary’s Catholic School had a blast making paper before the Christmas Holidays..as if the energy in a school is not already pretty high the last week before school, we decided to add to it..and it was … Continued
Over the last couple of weeks, the Beyond Recycling class at Kinnaird Elementary has been learning about the story of our stuff. The class investigated every step in the ‘Life Cycle’ of everyday items, starting with the extraction of raw materials from the Earth, the manufacturing, distribution and consumption of goods and finally, the last … Continued
Ms Franke’s class of grade 3/4/5 students at JV Humphries investigated the History of Waste on December 1. The students learned how our production of waste has increased over time, not only with the exponentially more people, but our habits of producing waste. We learned that the first peoples used to produced very little waste … Continued
Mrs. Hendry’s grade 5/6 class started the Beyond Recycling program travelling back in time. We went to see the types and amounts of waste created by people in different times in history, in different places in the world. By looking at some of the ways people have lived on this planet, and the consequent waste … Continued
