150 Ways Schools Show Climate Leadership Spring 2017 Projects School Location Your Leaf for Project 1 Your Branch Your Leaf - Project 2 Your Branch A.H
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150 ways schools show climate leadership Spring 2017 projects School Location Your Leaf for Project 1 Your branch Your Leaf - Project 2 Your branch A.H. Dakin Edson We implemented school wide Conservation - School wide recycling program Conservation composting, with a composting Composting and energy reduction - Recycling bin in each classroom challenges Archbishop Joseph MacNeil Edmonton We have developed our own Outdoors - We explore our local Outdoors - "Kinder-garden" to grow food, Gardening community to discover Nature beautify the environment, and changes in nature. appreciation attract pollinators. Ascension of our Lord Calgary We go to Weasel head park in Outdoors - We use our outdoor class room Outdoors - Glenmore park SW yearly ( for Nature to for many learning activities. Nature about 10 years plus) to explore appreciation connection water quality, living things in the park, different plants and trees and students get to do an urban hike. Aspen Heights MicroSociety Red Deer Aquaponics Program in our Outdoors - Our students operate a Conservation Science Classroom Gardening licensed bottle depot. - Recycling Aurora Elementary Drayton Valley We grow our own veggies Outdoors - We no longer use overhead Energy - aeroponically and use the grow Nature fluorescent lights. Energy lights as our light source. connection conservation Banded Peak Bragg Creek If clean water is a human right, Conservation - why doesn't everyone have Water access to it? Bertha Kennedy Catholic St. Albert We collaborate with the City of Conservation - We have indoor classroom Outdoors - Community School St. Albert to collect compost in Composting gardens that grow salad Gardening each classroom. vegetables, tomato plants to sell as a fundraiser and microgreens. Canmore Collegiate High School Canmore Performing an energy audit of Energy- Energy Re-start our school composting Conservation our school, and moving towards efficiency program - renewable energy infrastructure Composting Captain Nichola Goddard School Calgary Our annual Green Commuting Energy - Challenge aims to reduce our Transportation carbon footprint and increase Cbe learn Calgary We'reour daily hosting physical a farmers activity market Outdoors - We are hosting a conference to Outdoors - to bring environmentally Gardening engage and inspire the Nature friendly products and produce community and students in appreciation to our community environmental and energy sustainability Chief Justice Milvain School Calgary We are encouraging people to Conservation - We collected Christmas Lights Energy - stop buying and throwing away Land & Wildlife that did not work anymore and Renewable plastic. We are the Nature Kids donated them. In turn, we energy Club from Chief Justice Milvain used those donated parts to School. buy a Solar Light. Chinook Park School Calgary We recycle holiday lights to Conservation - recover the copper. We donate Recycling the $ to send LED lanterns to South Sudan. Chinook Park School Calgary We are reducing idling in our Energy - anti- school community. idling Clandonald School Clandonald Students participate in the Conservation - Gardening - we grow apples Outdoors - Community Clean-up every Recycling and carrots for healthy school Gardening year. We pick up litter, snacks. Our hydroponic recyclables, etc., helping the garden is adding green environment and being vegetables to our menu. responsible citizens. Cold Lake High School Cold Lake Fundraising to install a 3rd Conservation - The students have chosen to Conservation water bottle filling station, and Water focus on improving and - Recycling conducting an awareness expanding our recycling campaign. program, and changing behaviours to make recycling easier and the "norm" within our school community. Connaught Calgary Our class shows leadership in Conservation - We created Alberta animals Conservation worm composting with our Composting completely out of recycled - Wildlife kindergarten and grade 1/2 objects and items such as buddies. fabric scraps that are on display around our school teaching students about our wildlife. Connect Charter School Calgary Our Grade 7 students are Conservation - Our "green team" will be Conservation researching the potential Wildlife educating our school about - Recycling impacts and possible solutions recycling and composting. of the construction of the Ring Road on the Weaselhead Natural Park. Consort School Consort Our synthetic biology club is Conservation - We are growing plants in Outdoors - engineering a bacteria to safely Air quality tower gardens in the school Gardening break down hydrogen sulfide and developing a community gas instead of burning it. garden on the grounds. Crescent Heights High School Medicine Hat Every year, we spend 4 days of Conservation - We have worked on creating Conservation (Medicine Hat) our learning in Police Point Park Land awareness of invasive species - Wildlife (Community Classroom). We in our area. focus on human impacts on the environment, stewardship, and indigenous land use (i.e. medicinal plants). Crestomere School Lacombe We manage the care & health Outdoors - Eco Club teaches students how Outdoors - of 6 bee hives, extract, bottle Nature (and why) to be master Gardening and cell the honey as a connection gardeners. fundraiser for the school. D.S. MacKenzie junior high Edmonton We hike in Edmonton's river Outdoors - Students learn how to build Outdoors - valley and teach students about Nature fires and cook on firepits. Outdoor plant identification and uses appreciation skills and they create photo scrapbooks. Dr EW Coffin School Calgary Recycling, reusing and Conservation - We are composting our paper Conservation upcycling 'one use' snack Recycling towels and we sell the - wrappers from lunch waste. compost in our community. Composting Dr. J.K. Mulloy Calgary Planting a garden (vegetable Outdoors - School-wide fundraising and Conservation and floral for butterflies, moths, Gardening awareness campaign of wildlife - Wildlife and bees) and creating an in our community. outdoor learning space complete with native plants. Ecole Dickinsfield School Fort McMurray, We reduce waste through waste Conservation - We have had a school garden Outdoors - Alberta free lunches, recycling, Composting for 5 years, to promote Gardening composting and gardening. engagement with nature & healthy eating. École La Verendrye & Helen Lethbridge Natural Leaders Project: Outdoors - Natural Leaders Project: Food Gardening Schuler Nature Centre Building Ecoliteracy and Nature Forest at Ecole La Verendrye Inspiring Stewardship Action in appreciation a New Generation of Albertans! École Lacombe Junior High School Lacombe We have a school and Outdoors - We use our outdoor class to Outdoors - community garden and school Nature provide learning opportunities Nature wide planting! connection using our natural world. connection Ecole Lacombe Upper Elementary Lacombe We take a nature walk through Outdoors - the J.J. Collette Natural Area to Nature learn the role of Alberta's appreciation native trees. Ecole McTavish Junior High Public Fort McMurray eco-YOLO: A student-led Conservation - We are taking care of our Outdoors - School initiative to replant trees in Fort Land school greenhouse, by planting Gardening McMurray trails after "The and taking care of our school Beast" wildfire in 2016. garden. Ecole Mountain View school Hinton We organized an anual school- Outdoors - School enviromental cub called Conservation wide Enviro - Day promoting Appreciation Dumpster Divers. - Recycling sustainability and beautification of school. Ecole Notre Dame High School Bonnyville We have created a new Conservation & Improving our school's Conservation Environmental Science course energy recycling program - Recycling at our school. Ecole Paul Kane High School St. Albert Bio 20 class is goes to the Outdoors - Devonian Botanical gardens, Nature and on a River Watch trip. connection Science 10's go to Prairie Greenhouses and Gardens. École Père Kenneth Kearns Sherwood Park We encourage to reduce our Conservation - By composting, we provide the Conservation Catholic School carbon footprint at our school Recycling Earth nutrients to help the soil - flourish. Composting Ecole Secondaire Notre Dame Red Deer Solar and Wind renewable Energy - We explore nutrient cycles by Conservation energy power our greenhouse Renewable building pop bottle terrariums. - used for Science and Foods! energy Composting Edmonton Christian Northeast Edmonton Each week in September Outdoors - Teaching younger students Outdoors - students visit their chosen tree Nature how to care for the trees. Nature on the school grounds and appreciation appreciation make observations about the changes they observed. Edmonton Christian Northeast Edmonton As part of grade six study of Outdoors - We tour a river valley ravine to Outdoors - School Trees & Forests, the students Nature explore different biomes. Nature visit classrooms teaching care appreciation appreciation for our trees. Elmwood Edmonton Elmwood children care for Conservation - We are learning about the Conservation caribou by promoting Wildlife importance of the North - Water conservation of wildlife Saskatchewan River’s corridors. headwaters! Exshaw School Exshaw We start every year with a Outdoors - hiking skills course in the Outdoor skills mountains over five weeks of classes. Father Scollen School Calgary Students in Preschool to Grade Conservation - The grade 4 students recycle Conservation 6 are using composting bins to Composting paper and bottles weekly.