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Project Overview
Project Overview
Our Lime Kiln Middle School community is rapidly changing from rural to more suburban. Our campus is flanked by a farm and a new housing area. The farm will soon be developed into a second part of the housing development. This will impact our school landscape by creating more erosion and flooding issues. Our project has two parts to help us make our community ecosystems stronger. We would love to build up and develop a conservation landscape to help filter and slow the stormwater. The students researched, designed, and built this conservation landscape that will cater to butterfly and bee pollinators. Students researched, designed, and built a bat box and native bird boxes on our campus. --->
We envision developing an application through coding that in the future, could track or record the number of pollinators that visit our school’s ecosystems which would include the bees, bats, birds, and butterflies with a game camera. For now, we are focusing on using QR to explain to our visitors the various species of plants in our garden and their benefits to the environment.
Timeline
Timeline
Winter 2023 -
Research conservation landscapes and native plants
Plan and prep the conservation landscape site
Research bird boxes
Research bat box
Take baseline data for stormwater and stream nitrates, phosphates, and ammonium in the water
Spring 2023 -
Plant trees with the Howard County Forestry Board
Plant native pollinator plants
Water plants to make sure they become established
Add informational signs to inform the community
Continue to test water as the conservation landscape is established
Fall 2023 -
Weed conservation landscape
Test collected stormwater and stream for nitrates, phosphates, and ammonia
Compare data
Add more plants/seed area
Spring 2024 -
Test collected stormwater and stream for nitrates, phosphates, and ammonia
Compare data
Our Purpose
Our Purpose
Our school is dedicated to helping make our community a better place for ourselves and surrounding wildlife. By planting a variety of native plants we are helping reduce rainwater runoff, help erosion, and help our school's wildlife and environment in positive and Eco-friendly ways! Students who are passionate about environmental science and promoting the protection of our planet are encouraged to join the Environmental STEAM Team Instructional Seminar. This seminar allows students to act locally to help globally. The students study and learn about issues that affect our environment. Our students maintain our rain garden, the bluebird trail, the butterfly garden, the bee garden, and the school grounds' ecosystem. Each year our group chooses a project to help the environment on our school campus. In 2020, we applied for A Sustainable Life-Long Green School. ( 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020). Finally in the school year of 2024, we were marked as a Bronze Lifetime Sustainable Green School, the accumulation of 20 years of work
Learn more about us! at Lkms.hcpss.org
Other Projects: Keep The Sea Plastic-Free MURAL
LKMS STEAM: Environmental Seminar
Virtual Garden Tour: 3-D Tour
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