Students at St. John Neumann School are learning, doing and teaching others about composting and recycling.
Tag Archives: #RICH
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.
Singing About Recycling
Kindergarten students at Catawba Trail ES were learning and singing about recycling this Earth Day.
Owl Education
Harmony School partnered with Congaree National Park Volunteers to educate the public about local owl species at Soda City’s Earth Day Celebration.
Coffee Pod Seed Starters
Students at Lake Carolina Elementary Lower School celebrated Earth Day by reusing coffee pods as seed starters for pea and bean plants to plant in their school garden.
Plant Native
The Dutch Fork High School Earth Club reported that the native All Spice bushes they planted recently on their campus are already turning green! The bushes were donated by local Master Gardener, Barbara Waters. Club members also planted pineberries outside their garden.
How To Be Green
Nancy Frick’s first-grade students at A .C. Moore ES are learning what it means “to be green.” Students are recycling, composting, and making projects with reused materials.
My puppet, Dumpy, and I had fun visiting this Green Steps classroom!
Building a Pallet Compost Bin
Sixth-grade students at Green Charter School of the Midlands researched how to build compost bins out of wooden pallets. After researching, they drew up a plan to create their own compost bin using wooden pallets they received for free. The students worked together to secure the pallets to a fence and then added more pallets as walls to complete the compost bin.
Pizza Box Loom Workshop
Dutch Fork ES recently hosted a workshop for district teachers to make pizza box looms. Students will soon be weaving plarn (plastic bag yarn) made from used grocery bags into 16” mats that can be made into a variety of fun and useful projects.
Cardboard Challenge
Students at the Green Charter School of the Midlands are busy making creative projects during their “Cardboard Challenge” Reuse project.
