Students in Mrs. Frick’s first grade class at AC Moore Elementary School learned about weathering and soil erosion by conducting an experiment using chocolate chip cookies. Students used q-tips, toothpicks, and water to “weather” and “erode” crumbs from the cookies. What a delicious demonstration! Then, students created vermicompost in a classroom bin to learn more about one way of restoring soil to good health. Finally, students created posters illustrating the principles of healthy soil for the “Life in the Soil: Dig Deeper” poster contest sponsored by the Richland Soil and Water Conservation District. These posters are being used to educate the community about the importance of healthy soil!
Category Archives: Blog Post
Reduce Reuse Recycle
Students from Ms. Pollard’s 7th grade ELA classes at Ebenezer MS inspire to us all to make good environmental choices with their recent YouTube skit.
Presidential Innovation Award
Green Step Teacher at J.B Edwards ES, Nancy Platt, has been selected as a Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators winner by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Environmental Education.
https://www.epa.gov/education/presidential-innovation-award-environmental-educators
Come congratulate her and learn more about her projects at the EEASC Conference June 8,9, 10. http://eeasc.org/conference
Value of Trees
Lexington County’s John Oxner teaches Irmo High School students about the value of trees. Redbud saplings were provided by Dominion Energy.
Trout Release
DNR’s Sarah Chabaane helps Irmo High School students celebrate their successful trout release this spring.
Aluminum Can Flowers
Students at Walhalla High School are upcycling aluminum cans into beautiful flowers for Mother’s Day gifts.
Upcycled “Brief-Cases”
Richland County Green Step Mentors are thrilled with their personalized upcycled “brief-cases” from the H.E. Corley ES Green Step Team!
Natural Community Art
Kudos to H. E. Corley ES’s art teacher, Khaldoune Bencheikh, for organizing this fantastic “Natural Community Art Project” for District Five Families at the Irmo International Festival in April.
Caring for Creation
Students at St. John Neumann School are learning, doing and teaching others about composting and recycling.
Operation Bedroll
Dutch Fork HS Job Skills students made and donated eight finished bedrolls to Operation Bedroll for Columbia’s chronically homeless population. Each bedroll requires about 700 plastic grocery bags and 80 hours of labor (40 hours to make the plastic bag yarn and 40 hours to crochet.) Now these students are learning to weave plastic bags on pizza box looms.