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. - Recycling collect all the fruit and vegetables from their lunches.

Fort McMurray Islamic School Fort McMurray We are replacing disposable Energy - Energy We are using vermi- Conservation white board markers with conservation composting to help reduce - refillable ones lunch food waste Composting

Fort Saskatchewan Christian Fort Saskatchewan Caring for Our Watersheds: Conservation - Outdoor Camping Trip to build Outdoors - School Saskatchewan River Water skills for camping, cooking, Outdoor and building fires and skills appreciation for our environment. Graminia Spruce Grove Fully functioning aquaponics at Energy - Energy Tower Gardens throughout our Outdoors - Graminia School efficiency division create many new Gardening learning opportunities

Grande Cache Community High Grande Cache We are providing subsidized Conservation - Our Student Leadership group Conservation School water bottles to all of the Water promotes environmental - all students in our school to reduce citizenship by designing all of waste. our activities from an environmental perspective. Grande Yellowhead School Jasper The Palisades Stewardship Outdoors - Division and the Palisades Education Centre welcomes Nature Stewardship Education Centre - over a thousand of students connection GYPSD #77 and Parks Canada each year to have experiential education adventures in Jasper National Park. Harry Ainlay High School Edmonton We are planting gardens on our Outdoors - We create naturalized areas on Outdoors - school grounds Gardening school grounds. Nature connection Heritage Christian Academy Calgary Outdoor Ed students pledge to Energy - Energy We implemented a school-wide Conservation reduce their environmental efficiency waste diversion program - Recycling footprint. including recycling and composting.

Highwood School Calgary Grade 3 students will design, Energy - Energy Grade 4 students will design Energy - build and test with a variety of conservation and make their own solar Renewables recyclable materials a small ovens, solar powered iPad First Nations solar green house. Grade 4 chargers students will design and make their own solar ovens, solar powered iPad chargers

Hillview School Edmonton Every spring we plant Outdoors - Our students our creating a Energy - vegetables in our school garden Gardening green innovation product that Energy and harvest them in the fall. will green the planet. efficiency Horace Allen School Coleman Our School Eco Club (K-3) is Conservation - We are designing an outdoor Outdoors - initiating waste-free lunch waste reduction classroom/garden project for Nature program with parents sewing re- an un-used area of our appreciation useable sandwich bags to give schoolyard! every student at Earth Day Assembly. Ian Bazalgette School Calgary We are raising awareness of Conservation - water shortages on First First Nations & Nations Reserves across Water Canada.

J H Picard elementary Edmonton We learn about insects and Outdoors - We keep our school yard Conservation planted a bee garden Gardening clean! - Land

J Percy Page Edmonton All English papers submitted in Conservation - most English classes are Land electronically submitted. J.J. Nearing Elementary School St. Albert We walk to school. Energy - We encourage students to use Conservation Transportation reusable water containers and - Water purchased a bottle refilling station. Jasper Elementary School Jasper We recycle juice boxes and Conservation - bottles and the money is Recycling invested with Plan Canada's Gift of Hope.

Jasper Elementary School Jasper We do an animal life cycles field Conservation - We learn about rocks and Conservation school where the students Wildlife minerals in our community - Land spend time outdoors learning through hands on experiences about animals from local with local experts. experts.

Jasper Place High School Edmonton We are working on 'no idling' Conservation - We are working on Energy - parking spots for the school. Air quality encouraging students to Transportatio carpool and providing n designated parking spots for carpooling. Jean Vanier Catholic Sherwood Park We encourage composting in Conservation - We have tower garden vertical Outdoors - each classroom composting aeroponic growing systems. Gardening Kildare Elementary Edmonton Our Environment Club is Conservation - Our Environmental Club Outdoors - involved in paper recycling, Recycling regularly picks up litter in and Nature litter control, and promoting around our school field. appreciation Earth Hour/Earth Day activities. Kisipatnahk School Maskwacis We recycle bottles, cans, Conservation - cardboard and paper. Recycling

Lacombe Composite High School Lacombe LCHS EcoVision Dow Outdoors - LCHS EcoVisions BEE WISE Conservation Community Gardens & Geodesic Gardening project increases pollinator - Wildlife Greenhouse grow organic fresh habitat, enhance pollinator produce for our school & populations and provide bee community keeping training Lake Bonavista School Calgary We compare growing results Conservation - We grow vertical gardens in Outdoors - from the Tower Garden to Land and Water our classroom. Assuming the Gardening traditional methods of growing. role of Botanists we use We look at the quantity and observations, inferences, quality of whats growing and comparisons and questions to the maintenance and resources aid in classification and care! required to sustain each. Lord Shaughnessy Calgary We grow micro greens and sell Outdoors - We are working to put solar Energy - them to local restaraunts Gardening panels on the Tsuu T'ina Renewables junior/senior high First Nations

M.E. LaZerte School Edmonton With recycle bins for paper and Conservation - Outdoors - We are teaching Nature beverage containers, an Eco- Recycling students how to grow plants connection Station for batteries, toner and garden! cartridges and small electronics, we recycle every day! Madeleine D'Houet Calgary Through "Planet Protector Conservation - Academy" the grade 7s Recycling explored the effects of trash on our environment.

Matthew Halton High School Pincher Creek "A Day on the Creek" event will Outdoors - We are researching, designing, Outdoors - get hundreds of Pre K-12 Nature developing and installing Nature students outside in Pincher connection interpretive signs at Beauvais appreciation Creek to learn their curriculum. Lake Provincial Park.

Meadowlark Christian School Edmonton The Gr. 3 class is growing a Outdoors - garden in the classroom using Gardening Earth Boxes.

Mills Haven Elementary School Sherwood Park "Every classroom is a little Conservation - "Our veggie garden and fruit Outdoors - greener and the air a little Air quality trees help us learn about Nature cleaner due to our spider locally grown produce!" connection plants!"

Monsignor JS Smith School Calgary Our environmental stewardship Energy - Energy We recycle paper, bottles and Conservation option class created a paper conservation cans with the help of our - Recycling towel reduction project to parents reduce costs, use less paper and energy; and reduce waste. Morinville Community High School Morinville In our Urban Ag class, we grow Conservation - MCHS students are designing Outdoors - commercial crops of basil and Composting and building an outdoor space Outdoor mint and we compost all our Outdoors - skills organic waste in worm Gardening composters and use this to fertilize our hydroponics tables.

Notre-Dame des Monts Canmore I teach multiple curriculums in Outdoors - We have a forest club for Outdoors - the forest close to our school: Nature grades 3 to 6 students. Nature music, physical education, connection appreciation language arts.

Olds High School Olds We tend and grow vegetables Outdoors - We study alternative energy Energy - on our green roof and in a Gardening sources and energy efficiency. Renewable community garden. energy

Penhold Crossing Secondary Penhold Endangered Species Awareness Conservation - Building of a living green Outdoors - School & Student Display Contest Wildlife wall/sphere Nature (education, project, donation, appreciation symbolic adoption)

Père-Lacombe Edmonton We collect the juice boxes Conservation - everyday in each class for Recycling recycling them.

Prince of Peace Calgary We constructed and placed bird Conservation - We built a hoop style Outdoors - houses in our local wetlands to Wildlife greenhouse to support Gardening help local birds. gardening at our school.

Queen Alexandra Edmonton We walked to River Valley 4 Outdoors - We visit a neighbourhood Outdoors - times this year to explore Nature park/playground and clean up Nature nature and allow students the connection the litter. appreciation opportunity for free play in nature.

Queen Elizabeth Elementary Calgary Composting paper towel and Conservation - Out students have created a Energy - food has enabled our school to Composting "Be bright turn out the light" Energy reduce our waste by about 85 campaign to use less energy. conservation % in only two months.

Queen Elizabeth High School and Edmonton Innovate Program: Energy Energy - Energy Developing a co-generation Energy - Argyll Centre with Edmonton Auditing schools and public efficiency system to reduce waste heat. Renewable Public School Board buildings energy

Ralph McCall School Airdrie How can we create a Energy - Energy How can we create a better Outdoors - sustainable community? conservation appreciation for Airdrie's Nature natural environment and appreciation history?

Rideau Park School Edmonton We plant a garden that Outdoors - We put up birdhouses and bird Conservation nurtures curiosity and learning Gardening feeders around our school yard - Wildlife through active and passive to increase biodiversity. interaction with the outdoors, while also enhancing biodiversity in our schoolyard. Robert Thirsk High School Calgary We have established and Outdoors - continue to maintain a living Nature wall in our school's common connection area

Robert Thirsk High School Calgary We are endeavoring to Outdoors - Outdoors - We envision that Gardening reconnect high school students Nature every classroom in our school to the beauty and value of their connection grows healthy and sustainable natural world. food crops.

Ross Sheppard High School Edmonton We partnered with TerraCycle Conservation - We researched Geothermal Energy - to recycle non-refillable Recycling systems and are ready to Renewable markers. introduce/bring the awareness energy to the public.

Sir John A. MacDonald School Calgary Installed a $40,000 solar panel Energy - project on the schools to Renewable provide some of our own energy energy and to bring more renewable energy teaching into the classrooms. St. Bede School Calgary St. Bede students explore their Energy - Energy Grade One students from St. Conservation carbon footprint and repay by conservation Bede School donate their juice - Wildlife designing/creating an outdoor boxes, milk cartons and water nature space to learn in. bottles to adopt endangered animals.

St. Richard Elementary Edmonton We are changing our Energy - Energy We are promoting the use of Energy - behaviours to use less conservation renewable energy in our Renewable electricity and help reduce our community. energy school's carbon footprint.

Strathcona Christian Academy Sherwood Park We grow fish and vegetables in Outdoors - We will install solar panels Energy - Secondary a sustainable ecosystem. Gardening Renewable energy Sundance Calgary We have vermicomposting in Conservation - our grade 4 classrooms - we Composting love our worms!

Tom Baines School Calgary We've planted red and white Outdoors - We've built pop bottle Outdoors - tulip bulbs to celebrate Gardening ecosystems. Nature Canada's 150th birthday! appreciation

Vital Grandin Elementary School St. Albert We are initiating a "Green Bin" Conservation - We have three Tower Gardens Outdoors - composting program to Composting that we plant and maintain our Gardening complement our recycling school. program.

Walter and Gladys Hill Public Fort McMurray We grow our own vegetables Outdoors - We organize weekly recycling Conservation School and herbs in our tower garden Gardening for paper, cardboard and juice - Recycling as well as our outdoor boxes. classroom. Weinlos Edmonton We grow vegetables in our Outdoors - The class maintains a small Outdoors - classroom! We eat them, save Gardening outdoor garden and visits the Nature the seeds, make compost, then trees in our park and a park connection start all over again. near the school. West Meadow Elementary School Claresholm Our Div. II students collect the Conservation - We have a school garden. The Outdoors - school's recycling of drink Recycling grade 4 and 5 classes are in Gardening containers, paper, cardboard charge of preparing the soil, and plastic. planting, tending and harvesting the vegetables. Westmount Charter School Calgary P.E.E.L- People for Energy and Energy - Environmental Literacy Renewable energy

Westmount Junior high School Edmonton We make winter snow forts. Outdoors - Nature Walking with a Outdoors - Outdoor skills pedometer Nature appreciation

Westmount School Okotoks We take our students outdoors Outdoors - We take our students off Outdoors - everyday, to local parks, ponds Nature campus into the mountains to Outdoor and into Kananaskis country. connection go backpacking. skills

Westwood Community High Ft. McMurray We are trying to 3D print a Conservation - Our students are building Outdoors - School wind turbine from waste plastic Recycling geocaches out of wood, which Nature will be hidden in the trails for a appreciation community activity

Westwood Community High Ft. McMurray We are building beehouses to Outdoors - We are working on an Conservation School place throughout our Nature awareness campaign to - Water community of Fort McMurray. connection educate our students about their water consumption

Whitecourt Central School Whitecourt We built an outdoor classroom! Outdoors - We are raising Rainbow Trout! Outdoors - Nature Nature appreciation connection

Wilma Hansen Calgary We go outside almost every Outdoors - class to participate in a variety Nature of outdoor activities. connection