Arvon Township School

ATS Sustainment Garden 

Arvon Township School, grades K-8 continue to improve the school garden. This is the third year that the garden has been planted.  The garden this  year will consist of raised boxes with, fruiting plants, pollinators flowers, and vegetables.

The project location is at the school for the garden and various beaches in the county that needed trash picked up.  The problems students are solving are keeping the freshwater lakes clean and creating a sustainable garden that uses its own cycle to keep producing.  

TR Davis Elementary (Dollar Bay Elementary) 

Project Pollinators 

Our students are researching and creating informational pamphlets to hand out at our annual Open House. Topics include Monarch butterflies, pollinators and native plants. Students are also learning how to plant and how to sow seeds to grow their own healthy foods at home. Students are also learning how to continue to care for our school garden. 

4th and 5th grade, Dollar Bay Elementary School

Houghton Elementary 

Seeds of Knowledge- Kids and Farmers Unite in the Keweenaw 

This LSSI project served 3rd through 5th graders at Houghton Elelmentary School in the Houghton Portage School District. Students learned about local farming, art, and Anishinaabe culture and created their own art to reflect on their experience.

Farmers, a writer, and an artist worked with our students to help them develop a sense of place in our community. They learned where local food comes from, what it takes to grow it, and how to take care of the pollinators that help provide that food. They expressed their learning with two murals and a practical garden sculpture project. Our local watershed benefits from food being sourced locally by farmers who are taking care of it while taking advantage of the resources it provides.

Calumet High School

Protecting the Night Sky  

Calumet High School Art Classes, Grades 9-12

Calumet Art students learned about the importance of protecting the night sky and all of the benefits to animals, plants, and humans. Students each explored an aspect of this critical topic and created a 32 page zine to share with all. We printed some and we have the digital version available here in this LSSI Celebration. 

Luther L. Wright Ironwood Schools

Pollinators on the Schoolground

Chassell Schools 

Chassell Biodiversity Project: Citizen Science and Ecosystem Stewardship

Chassell students continued to monitor the biodiversity in their school forest and the Pike River. They had some exciting finds this year!  They also planted a native wildflower garden next to the school and are raising butterflies to release at this site at the end of the school year in the hope of increasing the biodiversity by the school.

Our Community's Very Important Biodiversity (the students chose this):