Science Alive has become a living entity on our campus. Look how far we have come in just 2 years! We have so many exciting accomplishments and we are seeing this program grow and change into something that has tremendous impact on our students, staff, parents and community. The following is a list of our accomplishments and a look into our future vision.
Achievements
- Paw Patch established June 08
- Cafeteria Garden and outdoor classroom established July 09
- Renewal of front landscape July 09
- School-wide garden program with at least one docent per class fall 08
- Coordinated Science and Garden Curriculum started fall 09
- All classes begin visiting the science lab weekly 09-10
- 08-09 School year students received 30 mins every other week in garden
- 09-10 School year students receive 45 a week in garden/science
- Monthly school garden snack exposes kids to their harvest – fresh vegetables
- Composting program and greenhouse started 08-09
- Butterfly pavilion – currently in progress
- Our first waste free lunch day with 60 students who participated this month
- Successful fruit and veggie and plant sales take place September 08 and Spring 09
- Establish a cooperative of community members that begin to brainstorm the greening of our campus (meeting is set for May 10th at Theodore Judah)
Goals for 2010-2011
- Continue to improve our garden program with more complete training for our docents and detailed lessons to assure the quality of standards based education students receive in the garden
- Teachers will take science into the classroom on a daily basis and focus on standards based lessons
- Science Alive will continue to provide lab set-up for each grade level to enable the use of the lab while not over-taxing our teachers
- Establish a green team made of students, a teacher and parents that begin changes on our campus relating to a more effective waste reduction/recycling program
- The greening of our campus will begin to address waste reduction in our cafeteria as well as improving the food our students eat.
- Student leadership will be encouraged on the green team in relation to lunch monitors, student education and future goals for our school
- That our school would become a pilot for other schools within our district
- Take students to visit a local farm/educational program
- Bring speakers onto campus that will teach our students about waste/energy reduction