Students at White Knoll HS painted cans and other upcycled containers for plants to improve air quality in classrooms.
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Champions of the Environment
Congratulations to Certified SC Green Step School, Meadow Glen Elementary, for being selected by SC DHEC as one of eight schools across the state to be selected for a $2,000 Champions of the Environment grant for their project “Plants Improve Air Quality Inside and Outside.”
Litter Pickups
White Knoll HS’s campus is cleaner following Litter Pickups by their Green Step Team.
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Students collect and sort recycling at White Knoll High School. Green Step’s teacher, David Cann, then delivers the materials to Lexington County’s Edmund Landfill where the material will be transferred to Sonoco Recycling’s Material Recovery Facility to be baled and sent to factories.
Reuse Project
5th Grade art classes at Meadow Glen ES made symmetrical mandellas out of old CDs.
Climate Victory Garden
Students in J B Edwards Elementary School’s Low Country Sustainability Program manage a climate victory garden which is registered here:
https://www.greenamerica.org/gardenlisting/lowcountry-sustainability-program
Put your school garden on the map by building and registering your climate victory garden.
https://www.greenamerica.org/climate-victory-gardens
Learning about Soil
Students at Dent Middle School learned about soil with Green Steps mentor, Karen Jackson, testing infiltration rates and estimating the percent of sand, silt, and clay before building their new rain garden.
Principal of the Year
The South Carolina Association of School Administrators (SCASA) has named Rhonda Rhodes of Taylors Elementary School the 2019 South Carolina Elementary Principal of the Year. Rhodes is in her fifth year serving as Principal at Taylors. She previously served as Principal at Wren Elementary in Anderson County and Principal at Ravenel Elementary in Oconee County. Both Taylors Elementary and Wren Elementary are Certified SC Green Step Schools.
Green Purchasing
Students at Dutch Fork ES recently made and sold holiday ornaments to raise money to buy plants to improve air quality in their classrooms. Great Green Purchasing Project!
Leave No Trace
Students at Walhalla HS participated in an awareness workshop for their “Leave No Trace” project.
