At this year’s Maryland Youth Summit, Hard Bargain Farm Environmental Center was officially recognized as a Maryland Green Center. This recognizes that we model best environmental practices within our center as well as support Maryland schools in becoming Green Schools. We helped get a group of students from Gale-Bailey Elementary School and Cesar Chavez Elementary [...]
One of our long-time partner schools, Patuxent Elementary School, is a Maryland Green School, and they are profiled in PBS’s new series, Growing Greener Schools. For more information, visit Patuxent’s website.
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.
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 [...]