Conserve Reuse
Reuse-Projects
Operation Bed Roll
Lead Teacher: Vanessa Gustafson
Mentors: Jane Hiller & Jacqueline Buck
2nd graders collect used plastic bags and learn to make “plarn” for use later to make bedrolls for homeless in our SC communities. Collecting, creating, and measuring are an essential part of the student work in this project.
Students will make plarn during Earth Day week and will teach parents that come out to visit during that time. Students also include plarn making in many of their learning celebrations.
In March we hosted a district-wide workshop on Plarn and Loom making so that other teachers could start these types of projects in their own schools.
Crayola ColorCycle Program
Lead Teacher: Mary Creech
Students set up collection stations around the school for old markers. Each month markers were collected, mass measured, then returned to Crayola. Crayola then turns these markers into clean fuel for vehicles and homes.
How Students will Teach Others: This project was emphasized in a first grade learning celebration at the beginning of the school year.
Shoe Recycling Challenge
Lead Teacher: Dalene Gibson
Students set up a collection station at school for old shoes in front of their classroom. Students created a hallway data chart for the number of shoes collected. Students set a goal of #300 shoes by the end of April.
This project was promoted by the students during their second grade learning celebration in October. All of Mrs. Gibson’s parents as well as Pre-K through 2nd graders here at DFES were invited. During Earth Day week students will count all of their shoes and classify them be their physical properties. Then they will be bound per KMB specifications.
Green Purchasing
Lead Teacher: Amy Umberger
We have a Compost (our own from our School-Wide Foodwaste-to-Compost Program) Sale. Our compost was sold during Earth Day week.
How Students will Teach Others: Grades 2nd & 4th graders helped lead the sale and helped to pass out flyers to anyone who will purchase our compost explaining out commercial compost program. We made a profit of $300.00 this year. These funds will go directly back into our garden fund.
Trashion Show
5th graders take what they learned last year about “Upcycling” and now create their own design for our 1st ever ‘Trashion Show”. Students are given a rubric to follow so that they know what criteria is expected to be able to participate.
This project will run the entire months of April and May. Students will share their projects with the entire DFES community during our Talent Show on May 30th. Our entire DFES community will be invited as well as parents.
