On Saturday, April 10, over two dozen students, parents, and staff from Gale-Bailey Elementary School came to Piscataway Park to help clean up the Potomac River as a part of the Alice Ferguson Foundation’s 22nd Annual Potomac River Watershed Clean-Up. HBF Outreach paid for their bus to get from their school to the shore. Together [...]
Ryan Pleune (MAEOE Green Schools Coordinator), Dave Yarmchuk (AFF Naturalist) and Christa Haverly (AFF Outreach Coordinator) attended the NSTA Convention in Philadelphia to present about the Schoolyard Classroom Project. It was a successful presentation! Check out the video that Ryan created of our day in Philly. Schoolyard Classrooms from Ryan Pleune on Vimeo.
I went and visited Jessie Forbes’ fourth graders at Center City PCS Petworth for a pre-visit. We did Trash Timeline and Watershed Address. The kids really got into looking at the maps of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and their local watershed. I love it when kids check out maps!
In February, a team of teachers I partner with joined me at the MAEOE Conference in Rocky Gap, MD to present our Schoolyard Classroom Project. We had a great time during our presentation and at the conference as a whole. Check out the outdoor lessons section for some of the lesson plans we shared with [...]