Environment Project

Environment Project

The Environment Project:

A Whole School Project (1997 - 1998 school year)

This project grew out of a seminar some of the teachers participated in and a grant proposal for creating a backyard habitat. Even though the grant fell through, the ideas for the project bloomed. The project started the school year in 4 "family" groups with "parents" from the older class and "children" from all 3 classes. There was a photo scavenger hunt to locate places in the backyard based on clues in the photos. The families created natural art work on the fence and had a New Beginning backyard project:

	painting the old climber and spray painting leaf patterns,
	creating a new table top,
	cleaning up the front yard - weeding the beds, clearing stones, etc., and
	cleaning up the memorial garden.

Each class extended this in some cases working with another class. In the spring all the students made / decorated birdhouses.

Younger Class

	Printing and words about the Memorial Garden
	"Natural" math - measuring, counting, groups, making math problems for the class
	Survey of identifying unseen natural objects by touch alone
	Creative writing describing natural objects
	Pumpkin Farm Trip - weighing, measuring, art work
	Microscope work - prepared slides, and sample from Wetlands Trip
	Plating potted plants and seeds. charting growth
	Observing a circular plot of land
	Water table - outdoor planting tray

Younger & Middle Class

	Terrarium Eco-Systems
	Tree Identification
	June & Robin attended a Wetlands Workshop at Sandy Hook and brought back samples to share with both classes
	Owl Haven - dissecting owl pellets
	Monmouth Museum - "Creature Comfort: Animals in Art & Changing Culture" and "Lenape Indians to Victorian Age"
	Sandy Hook Student Program - Sea Creatures / Forest and the Sea

Middle Class

	Backyard Observations
	Research for individual project topics
	Daily Nature Journals
	Visit Bird Jungle
	Katerie - Prey & Predator (Co-Operative Games)
	Nature Poetry (some illustrated, some set to music)

Middle & Older Class

Make rain-sticks

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