Eco-Challenge Week 2 at Rosemont
This week, the students at Rosemont stepped up their Eco-Challenge actions and earned a total of 6756 points. Thirteen students brought in their booklets and received prizes. Well done!
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The Eco Challenge results are in!
The Gr. 6 students of Robson Elem. and Twin Rivers Elem. have been competing for the most amount of Eco points during the month long Family Eco Challenge. Both classes worked very hard at completing their actions and filling out their booklets. And the winner is: Twin Rivers with 36,615 Eco points. Awesome work! Robson … Continued
Salmo Finishes EcoChallenge in Style
Anyone participating in the ecochallenge has the fun, though especially challenging, option of coming up with your own ideas on how to decrease your ecological footprint – in each of the areas we’ve looked at (water, food, transportation, energy, stuff). For some people who already do a lot of the suggestions in the booklet, this … Continued
Rosemont EcoChallenge Week One
And they’re off! Students in Mr. Schnare’s class have begun to incorporate their EcoFootprint-shrinking actions into their day-to-day lives. This week, students were rewarded for their commitments and challenged to shortening their showers and saving energy and water. FortisBC donated some great shower timers that will be used for the next few weeks! Week 1 … Continued
EcoChallenge at Rosemont
Mr. Schnare’s class is excited to be participating in the EcoChallege. After completing our Investigations last week, we are choosing actions this week to commit to, in order to shrink our Ecological Footprints! We are especially excited about timing our showers and making them shorter, as well as cutting down on waste. Another popular action … Continued
Eco Challenge at Mc Kim Middle School
The grade 5 students in Ms Stewart and Mrs Mitchell’s class at Mc Kim Middle school in Kimberley, have started their Family Eco Challenge. Their first week has already shown to be an absolute success with students and their families, making changes to reduce their ecological footprint. The class has also taken on the responsibility … Continued
The EcoChallenge Finds Redfish Elementary
Mrs. Schmidt’s Grade 4/5 class took up the Beyond Recycling EcoChallenge in force this week. From trying to turning off lights as often as possible (including at friends’ houses) to trying to recycle more, there are lots of commitments that the students are going to try to make habits. But then there are the students … Continued
EcoChallenge East Kootenays – Week 2
We are earning more and more ecopoints in the East Kootenay schools as students take more and more actions with their EcoChallenge booklets. Students were excited to receive shower timers from Fortis as prizes for participating in the challenge. This week students earned: 756 ecopoints in Fernie (8 students tracking) 3698 ecopoints in Jaffray (17 … Continued
Eco Handprint
Part of the EcoChallenge is looking at ways we can grow our EcoHandprint – all the good things we can do to help the Earth, to save the Earth’s resources, and to make sure we’re sharing more evenly.
Eco Handprint
Part of the EcoChallenge is looking at ways we can grow our EcoHandprint – all the good things we can do to help the Earth, to save the Earth’s resources, and to make sure we’re sharing more evenly.