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Gale-Bailey Elementary Helps Clean up the Potomac

Posted on April 12, 2010 by outreach

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 they filled about 23 bags of trash, making the beach look spotless and restoring a cleaner habitat for the wildlife that live along the shore! They are now well-prepared to go back to their school for a schoolyard clean-up on Earth Day week. Awesome job, guys!

: There was plenty of time to take a break and enjoy the view!

: Students spread out and combed through all the trash.

: The kids found lots of interesting items, including this fishing pole.

: The kids filled 23 bags of trash all together!

: Students jumped off of and climbed back onto the boardwalk in order to access the beach on one side and the marsh on the other.

: The whole Gale-Bailey gang!

NSTA Convention

Posted on March 30, 2010 by outreach

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.

Center City PCS – Petworth Pre-Visit

Posted on March 30, 2010 by outreach

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!

: Fourth graders looking for their school on the map

: Finding waterways of the Chesapeake Bay

MAEOE Conference

Posted on March 24, 2010 by outreach

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 participants!

: Marva’s Group Talking about her School’s Gardens

: Penny’s Group Discussing How to Use a Schoolyard Classroom

: Why are Schoolyard Classrooms Important?

: Theresa and Marva – Two Great Science Teachers!

: Theresa’s Group Discussing Outdoor Classrooms

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