2.1 Water Conservation/Pollution Prevention

*Pollution Patrol - Oct. 23, 2014

Our Bridges Green Team students (15 students in gr. 3-5) walked outside using some of their senses to listen, hear, and see what different kinds of pollution can cause outside on the school grounds. Some discussion was talked about the air pollution inside the school as well.

Students are out on the school grounds listening and looking for different kinds of pollution.

Students used sticky notes to classify and sort the different pollutions they saw and heard.

* Cleaning Up Outdoor Learning Center - April 16, 2015 and Oct. 2017

Our Bridges Green Team students (4 students gr. 3-5) cleaned up the outdoor learning center. They swept off rocks, picked up sticks and trash to help make it more clean for students to come out and use the outdoor learning center and for to help it not reach into the waterways.

Oct. 2017 - Bridges students (gr. 3-5 est. 8 students) sweeping the sidewalks of all the rocks, mulch, and leaves from trees.

* Water Conservation Patrol - April 2015

Our Bridges Green Team students (10 students in gr. 3-5) performed a walkthrough of the inside of the building looking for leaks in bathrooms and under sinks.

*Trash Awareness Sign - May 2015

Students on the Bridges Green Team made a sign to hang on the basketball court fence to show awareness of cleaning up litter. The title was Give Us a Hand to Help Us Protect Our Land.

* Picking up Trash School Wide - Sept. 2015

Our students in all grades K - 5 signed up to pick trash up to clean the school grounds to help keep trash out of the watershed.

* Water Conservation Tips Movie - April 2016

Our Bridges Green team students (14 students in grades 3-5) made a video to show on GES Morning News to make students aware of the importance of conserving water .

* Picking up Trash - October 2016

Our Bridges Green Team (4 students in gr. 3-5) picked up trash for fall cleanup on our school grounds to help make sure trash wouldn't get into the waterways.

*Signs for Be Water Smart Campaign (Water Fountains) - Feb/March 2017

Our Bridges Green Team Environmental Learning and Bridges Green Team Tech students ( 30 students in gr. 3-5) made Be Water Smart Campaign signs to place up above the water fountains throughout the school to promote water conservation when drinking at the water fountains.

* Be Water Smart Campaign (Bathrooms)- Feb/ March 2017

Our Bridges Green Team Tech students (15 students in gr. 3-5) created Be Water Smart campaign signs in the computer lab. These signs gave tips on how to conserve water in the bathrooms. They then were able to place their signs in the student and staff bathrooms.

*Painting of Storm Drains - April 4, 2017

Our Bridges Green Team students (17 students in grades 3-5) stenciled and painted 5 storm drains located in the front parking lots of GES to prevent polluted water from reaching the watersheds of the Chesapeake Bay. They were given assistance by the Howard County Watershed Stewards Academy.