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Sample Questions From Educators

1. How do you delegate and divide responsibilities in a sustainability project across multiple content areas?

2. What are fun and interesting ways you engage students and new ways to teach?

3. What are ways to engage students and community youth in environmental projects to improve their neighborhoods?

4. What ways have you effectively increased school-wide participation?

5. How do we get the rest of the faculty on board?

6. What are ways to streamline data collection?

7. What are some easy, sustainability projects for middle school?

8. In what ways have you been able to extend sustainability initiatives from the classroom in to home and community?

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Butcher Educational Center

Presenter: Tuyen Duddles

The Butcher Middle School Mathematics Science Technology Center – (MS)2TC – is a middle school program that integrates mathematics, science and informational literacy (reading and writing) with technology infused into each area. Butcher Educational Center envisions creating a greenhouse learning lab for students to understand the science of soil in order support them in learning how to plant for sustainability.

The 7th graders are currently learning about ecosystems and the different roles that organisms play and how humans impact those organisms and the world. Students conduct local stream studies. Their project is to design a mitigation to an environmental issue like storm water runoff to positively impact the great lakes watershed at the school.

Mentors are supporting students to manage their projects based on their real-world experience and impact their decisions to go in to STEM careers.
Butcher’s student-led sustainability projects will involve the mentors by having them give feedback to the students that encourage students to think deeply about their projects and improve their design.

Berkshire Middle School

Presenter: Pam Lucken

Pamela Lucken is the Eco-Green project lead at Berkshire Middle School in Beverley Hills, MI. This school is partnered with Quaker Chemical mentors who attend bi-monthly green club meetings and demonstrate STEM career pathways. Berkshire’s student-led sustainability activities include food sharing table in the cafeteria to reduce waste, more recycling options, collecting old socks and t-shirts for reuse project and a book swap.

Berkshire Middles encourages students to increase their outdoor learning by going out onto the two acres of environmental study area by using the Eco-Green 3C Club (creating caring community) to advocate for nature walks and gardening.

The overall goal is to increase exposure of students to the natural wonderland in their own backyards and create opportunities for them to learn how to care for and maintain the garden. Berkshire will be collecting the metric of number of minutes per week of increased time spent outdoors.

Noble Elementary-Middle School

Presenter: Ryan Bodary

Teacher Ryan Bodary teachers 5th grade math and science at Noble Elementary and Middle School. Their Eco-Green vision is to support the transition of Noble Elementary and Middle school students, building, and surrounding community towards a technology leadership and environmental stewardship academy. The projects slated for the 2019 – 2020 school year include a zero-waste food campaign and recycling programming, grounds beautification and the implementation of an inclusionary playground.

The metrics collected this year will be the number of pounds reduced from entering the waste stream.

One of the strategies Bodary adapts is to make sure the student leadership team is closely connected to community partners. At Noble Elementary and Middle School they are committed to building community partnerships for sustainable community projects.