Grantee: Hamburg Community School District – Hamburg, IA Project Title: Green Electricity Grant Type: ecoSolution Description: The students studied how wind energy works and built a wind turbine using an inventor kit. The wind turbine is a 1500 watt generator which will provide energy to a farm school which doesn’t have any electricity on site. Continuous impact/Community … Read more
Grantee: The 5 Gyres Institute Project Title: Mi Mar/My Sea Grant Type: ecoSolution 5 Gyres Mi Mar/My Sea pilot program was a tremendous success. – 5 Gyres Offical Description: 5 Gyres launched the Mi Mar/My Sea Program to engage underserved high school students in one-day research expeditions to learn about plastic pollution through hands-on citizen science … Read more
Grantee: The Susquehanna River School – Harrisburg, PAProject Title: The Purple Martin Bird House ProjectGrant Type: ecoTech The birds will not consider a home where there is just water and land– they need people nearby. They have become completely dependent on human activity, and it shows in their living preferences. … Read more
by Eva Mastromatteo / erienewsnow.com Congratulations to Klein Elementary School in Erie, PA! We joined representatives from Dole Packaged Foods and Giant Eagle Supermarket to celebrate the installation and planting of their new garden. We look forward to watching your garden grow! Read Article
The Biome School was a recent winner of a contest in their area sponsored by Dole and Schnuck’s Grocery Stores. We are celebrating The Biome School’s innovative approach to STEM instruction and hands-on learning. To maximize space in their outdoor learning lab, staff and students installed a vertical garden to grow and contain their campus-grown … Read more
From petitioning schools to cut single-use plastics, to speaking out for the environment all over the globe, these young heroes are combining their powers to take pollution down to zero! 1. Hannah Testa Hannah Testa is the founder of Hannah4Change, an organization dedicated to fighting issues that impact the planet. An environmental activist and speaker, … Read more
by The St. Louis American Representatives from the Schnucks, Dole Packaged Foods and the Captain Planet Foundation visited the Biome School school on Thursday, April 11 to announce the donation of a Learning Garden. The Project Learning Garden program provides a context for multidisciplinary learning, ranging from nutrition and science to social studies, math and … Read more
Director of CPF Educator Institute, Karan Wood lead a workshop at the National Conference on Science Education in St. Louis. Teachers explored the GREAT Project Pathways, a suite of tools that students can use to build their own adventures and direct schoolyard projects that solve authentic environmental problems. They also, Investigated ways to incorporate Project-Based Learning with … Read more
Grantee: Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Inc. – Atlanta, GA Project Title: Lake Lanier Aquatic Learning Center (LLALC) for K-12 Grant Type: ecoSolution Description: Chattahoochee Riverkeeper’s LLALC project provides students with lessons that they can share with their families about how to keep their waters clean and safe from pollution and why it is important to use water … Read more
Grantee: Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School District Project Title: Pond Remediation Through Wind Power Grant Type: ecoTech Description: Historical uses of wetland areas adjacent to farms have left a legacy of landscape and ecological changes that still persist today. Old drainage ponds and ditches used to manage and control agricultural waste are still evident on Essex Technical … Read more