Being Green
Teaching Green | Being Green | Living Green
Being green entails maintaining a healthy school environment by finding ways to improve our efforts to conserve water and energy; reduce waste; restore and conserve natural habitat; create structures to respect and support the environment; and use transportation responsibly. Our goal is to ensure that environmental issues and concerns permeate decisions and choices made by all in our school community. Here we focus on the second objective of the Green Schools Application: Best Management Practices.
Conserving Water
- Pollution prevention
- Rain Barrels
- SERT stickers for faucets,etc.
- Sign for all bathrooms
- Storm Water Management Issues
- Bulletin Board
- Water-Saving Signs
Conserving Energy
- Carbon Newsletter
- Low-Lighting in the Computer Lab
- Pennies for the Planet
- SERT inspections, twice a week
- SERT Signs
- Stickers/posters around the school
- Rule to turn off lights/computers when viable
- Three Green Things Promise
- Morning News announcements: Green Fact of the Day, daily column
- Watts Up?
Fund Raising Logo Competition Application
A community builder to encourage participation and ownership of our renewed environmental efforts. At our school, proceeds from this fundraiser benefited the science lab and other inquiry-based activities.
Reducing Solid Waste
- Bottle Cap Art
- Recycle Labels
- Recycling programs, to include chip bags, candy wrappers, juice pouches
- Recycling Tem
- School Supplies Drive
- SERT in Action
- Ink Cartridges - Recycle through MCPS Materials Management, and purchase refurbished cartridges when possible.
- Cedar Grove Reusable Tote Bag
- Electronic/Digital Communication - School
- Electronic/Digital Communication - PTA
- PTA eco-fundraisers
Restoring Habitats
- Indigenous plant restoration
- School Gardens
- Beautification Committee
- Bluebird Boxes
- Butterfly Garden
- Habitat Restoration Signage
- No Mow Signage
- Using Outdoor Spaces
- Courtyard
- Sensory Garden
- Sensory Garden signage
- Journaling
The Green Kids Application Process
This involves our entire school community, including representatives from all segments of our staff.
Commitment Letters; Part II of the Application
Using Transportation Responsibly
- School Transportation Policy
- Suggestions for eco-consciousness
- In-school field trips
- No Idle Signage
2013 MAEOE Conference Presentation: Rocking the Green Schools Journey