The students at Twin Rivers Elementary School in Castlegar celebrated the end of Beyond Recycling with a fantastic potluck. Gr 5/6 students were excited to bring in a dish to share that encompassed the 5 N’s, or as many as they could. The 5 N’s are (in no particular order) Now, Near, Nutritious, Natural and … Continued
Many of us say or have heard the statement: “Just throw it away” but where is away, exactly? This question, along with other wonders about how we can be more sustainable, was the focus of this amazing field trip. Two Beyond Recycling classes embarked on this experience, Mme Russell’s Gr. 5/6 class from Twin Rivers … Continued
What are the raw materials needed to make a soccer ball? How about a pencil, or a pair of jeans? This is what the students at Robson Community School learned during the Lifecycle of Stuff lesson. The Gr. 5 students in Mrs. Posnikoff’s class started the lesson by trying to guess what product their groups … Continued
The Grade 5/6 class at Twin Rivers Elementary School in Castlegar had fun making paper this week in Beyond Recycling. This hands on activity really showcases the raw materials, trees and water, and their role in creating paper. The “mini paper making factories” were set up with all the equipment: water, shredded newspaper, coloured paper, … Continued
Beyond Recycling partnered with the RDCK for a pilot program to bring infrared cameras to three classrooms this winter. The cameras plug into iphone or android devices and make heat loss visible. Students from Twin Rivers Elementary in Castlegar, Adam Robertson Elementary in Creston and JV Humphries in Kaslo participated. Students from the three classes … Continued
The grade 5 Twin Rivers class has been saving all the one time use plastic lunch snacks that their class uses since the beginning of the year. This pile has been growing remarkably quickly. We decided to do something about it. We would use natural materials to make reusable snack cloths that would reduce the … Continued
In November of 2018, both the Grade 5 and Grade 6 class at Twin Rivers took a trip to the various locations in their town where the waste and recycling ends up. It was such a powerful field trip to take for the students to have an experience to see what actually happens to their … Continued
Evolution of Waste On October 24th, 2018, we dove back in time to investigate the evolution of Waste and how we managed to have such a waste crisis on our hands now. We explored what we call waste and how that changed over hundreds of years. We traveled back in time to the various … Continued
In November of 2018, both the Grade 5 and Grade 6 class at Twin Rivers took a trip to the various locations in their town where the waste and recycling ends up. It was such a powerful field trip to take for the students to have an experience to see what actually happens to their … Continued
A Waste-full History
