Systemic Sustainability
Environmental Curriculum and Instruction
1.1 Curriculum and Instruction
Elementary & middle schools must provide one example of outdoor/environmental instruction per grade level.
High schools must provide one example of outdoor/environmental instruction in four subjects (which may include multiple different differents sciences).
Students were provided worms in order to identify their best living conditions. Students collected data on: wet vs dry, smooth vs rough, light or dark and warm or cold. This data was then used in order to build worm habitats.
Students observing worm behaviors based on living conditions then recording findings in their notes.
1.2 Green School Awareness
1.2.1 School Wide Awareness - Staff
Demonstrate that all school personnel are aware of your school's Green School status and application process.
No meetings
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1.2.2 School-Wide Celebration
Demonstrate how your school celebrates beig a Green School by hosting a school-wide environmentally-focused event open to all students.
The school hosted an Earth Day event at the school open to all students and families. With a total of 20 stations, students were able to visit each one, participate in the activity with the host and take home skills, materials and goodies.
Sample activities included: Trash to treasure: upcycling water bottles into a sensory bottle craft Beekeeping: guest beekeeper with bees and honey Candle making: with beeswax Chapstick making: with beeswax Cow milking Ice cream making: with cow's milk Butter making: with cow's milk Pie tasting: from school orchard fruit Smoothie making: with orchard fruit and cow's milk Chickens Cooking with Eggs Potato Planting Cooking with potatoes etc.
Pie tasting station with apple pie and peach pie. Apples and peaches both grow in our school orchard.
Ice cream recipes and ice-cream were provided to students to make connections between the milking cow and ice-cream.
Trash to treasure station where students used recycled water bottles to craft a new sensory bottle.
Birdhouse station-students learned about how deforestation is the largest threat to bird populations, then were able to build and take home their own birdhouse.
Environmental Professional Development for Teachers
1.3.1 Environmental Professional Development for Teachers
Demonstrate that 10% of staff have completed an environmental PD. Instructional staff is defined as any staff that manages a gradebook.
- New Schools must have all PD completed within the past 2 academic years.
- Renewing schools must have all PD completed within the past 4 academic years.
A teacher who has participated in multiple workshops may only be counted once..
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1.4 Achieving Sustainable Schools
1.4.1 School-Wide Staff Sustainability
Demonstrate the sustainability practices your teachers, staff, and other personnel have implemented school-wide to make your school green. Any actions involving students belong under Objective 2.
1.4.2 Systemic Partnership
Demonstrate one partnership with a central office or board within the school system that supports part of the Maryland Green Schools Program. Any partnerships outside of your school system belong under Objective 3.
Student Action
Schools must document eight total actions that address at least three of the listed sustainability practices.
These are student actions not adult actions. Adult sustainable actions can be documented in Objective 1.4.
2.1 Water Conservation/Pollution Prevention
2.1 Water Conservation/Pollution Prevention
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2.2 Energy Conservation
2.2 Energy Conservation
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2.3 Solid Waste Reduction
2.3 Solid Waste Reduction
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2.4 Habitat Restoration
2.4 Habitat Restoration
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2.5 Opportunities for Nature Exploration
2.5 Opportunities for Nature Exploration
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2.6 Responsible Transportation
2.6 Responsible Transportation
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2.7 Healthy Indoor Environments
2.7 Healthy Indoor Environments
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2.8 Citzen/Community/Participatory Science
2.8 Citizen/Community/Participatory Science
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Community Partnership
Demonstrate that your school is forming long-term partnerships to foster environmental stewardship and cultivate community wellness through real-world connections.
3.1 Community Partnerships
3.1.1 School Active in Community
Describe at least one environmentally-focused partnership in which your school is working to benefit your community.
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3.1.2 Community Active in the School
Describe at least one partnership in which a community partner is benefitting the school. These actions and projects occur on or near school grounds with support from the partner.
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3.2 Additional Achievements
3.2 Additional Achievements optional
Share any environmentally-related awards, special recognition, certifications, or other achievements that your school, staff or students have accomplished.
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