| State |
Organization Name |
Description of Project |
| AL | Environmental Studies Center of the Mobile County Public School System | THE SHELL (Turtle Habitat Educating Students by Helping Environmental Learning through Legacy) project will address two areas of need - environmental education and animal rehabilitation. The project will heighten the awareness of students and the general public of Mobile County about the degradation of natural habitat in the area and what they can do to promote the protection of native wildlife. |
| AR | Ouachita River School District | Students will create a Kindergarten-12th grade Science and Social Studies learning lab on their school grounds. The students will learn how Native Americans and European settlers survived by camping out and studying how resources were used in the past. |
| AR | Prairie Grove High School | The MAD Science Club will begin a recycling club at their high school. The focus will be to purchase heavy duty outdoor recycling containers to allow for pickup and indoor receptacles for each classroom. |
| CA | Calvin Crest Outdoor School | Sixth grade students from as many as 30 elementary schools will adopt one acre of land at the Outdoor School. The project goals are to reduce fuel as a means of minimizing wildfire hazards, increase open space to improve forest health and wildlife habitat, and reduce presence of non-native plant species. |
| CA | Bend Elementary School | Students will create two raised beds for plants that will be utilized as an outdoor classroom for grades Kindergarten through 8th grade. |
| CO | Castle Rock Elementary | Fouth and fifth grade students will create an outdoor classroom, which will accommodate cross-curricular learning for all the students. Students will determine the feasibility of the site to support various forms of native plant and wildlife. They will then choose the elements needed to maintain the habitat for the wildlife. |
| GA | Hahira Middle School | Special education students will enhance the current landscape around the Salter Public Library by adding new shrubbery and trees. |
| GA | Spelman College | School beautification and environmental activities will occur at two Atlanta school sites. Preservice teachers at Spelman College will help the students participate in plantings and will teach teh students how to maintain and harvest the flowers. |
| ID | Pocatello Community Charter School | Students will study electricity, wind-power, hydropower, and other sources of renewable energy to understand different kinds of energy and learn about the nature of energy and energy transfer. |
| IL | Prairie Crossing Charter School | Prairie Crossing Charter School students will design and help to install gardens surrounding their new classroom building. These gardens will have educational theems, incorporate native plants, and conserve water. Students will deepen their scientific, environmental, and mathematical understanding as well as enhance their research and presentation skills through this project. |
| KS | Logan County Outdoor Classroom | The classroom will be located in a city park and will be open to schools in Logan County and the general public. A pond, 2 native wildflower gardens, a butterfly garden, an herb garden, a rock garden, an animal tracks site, and a teaching area will all be located on the site. |
| LA | Golden Meadow Lower Elementary School | Golden Meadow Lower Elementary proposes to create two outdoor classrooms which will include butterfly gardens and a wireless weather center. |
| MA | Trustees of Reservations & Dartmouth High School | Horticulture students at Dartmouth High School along with the Trustees of Reservations will establish and manage a tree nursery to propagate and restore critical species. The High School students will then educate elementary school students who visit the area. |
| ME | Poland Regional High School | The Terrestrial Biology class will determine what types of restoration efforts might help erosion at Tripp Lake. They will pick the best solution, obtain the proper permits from the Department of Environmental Protection, and implement the plan. |
| ME | Orono Middle & High Schools | Students will design signs and brochures and give presentations that will inform the community about vernal pool ecosystems. Students will laso identify the animal and plant characteristics and study water chemistry in two different vernal pools. Lastly, they will create field guides of invertebrates, trees, amphibians, birds, and insects. |
| ME | Southern Aroostook Soil & Water Conservation District | The purpose of the Wildlife Tree Planting Project at the Houlton High School Woodlot is to establish a wildlife and forest management demonstration site that can be used for educational purposes by High School students, Region 2 Vocation Education students, Envirothon teams, and other community groups. |
| MN | Wargo Nature Center | Wildlife gardens are in the process of being planted. Each garden will have an interpretive sign that will describe that habitat, its wildlife, and opportunties for the public to recreate that type of habitat in their own backyard. |
| MO | Smith Cotton High School | Students plan to implement a large-scale recycling program at their high school and hopefully others in the district. Student volunteers gather materials once a week and bring them to the school's recycling area. The collected materials will be weighed to determine how many tons of garbage are kept from the landfill and how much money is saved in tipping fees. |
| MT | Swan Ecosystem Center | A one-day per week after school program will allow students to restore and enhance nature interpretive displays. |
| NC | R.C. Cliff Payne Woodmen Youth Camp & Environmental Education Center | During 2002 an ice storm killed 397 mature pine trees in a single night. Since then, the camp has decided to build a mixed hardwood arboretum with a goal of planting every native hardwood tree species from North America within 15 years. Currently, there are 45 species planted on the camp with the hopes of reaching 60 hardwood species by June 1, 2005. |
| NC | New Vision School of Math, Science, & Technology | Students are adding a dry creek bed, native plants, a walking trail, a plant identification system, and permanent descriptive signs to an outdoor classroom. |
| NC | Roland-Grise Middle School | Students will construct an outdoor environmental education center between two nature trails in a cleared forest area near a pond. The center will provide environmental education for all ages. |
| NC | North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service | The Home School Community 4-H Club will design and install a garden of landscape plants that tolerate wet sites. Youth will learn how to identify plants, prepare planting beds, and mulch. |
| NC | Leesville Road Middle School | Seventh graders will create four service-learning projects focused on recycling, school beautification, and gardening. In the fourth project, the students will prepare environmental education activities to present to elementary school students. |
| NJ | Galloway Community Charter School | The diamondback terrapin is a turtle that lives in the brackish waters of New Jersey. Fourth grade students will learn about the anatomy and behavior of the tarrapin, the ecology of the estuary ecosystem, and the growing pollution problems along the Jersey shoreline. The students will then help care for several hatchlings over the course of the year. |
| NJ | WILD Jersey | Two habitats will be created by students - one in the schoolyard and the other at a local senior citizen home. Students hope the habitats will help preserve the local songbird population. Trees, shrubs, and perrenial species will be planted and feeders, nesting boxes, and roosting boxes will be placed in the habitat. |
| NJ | Galloway Community Charter School | Kindergarten through eighth grade students will learn about the New Jersey Pine Barrens by creating an outdoor classroom. Students will design, plant, and harvest a backyard habitat that encompasses a butterfly garden, vegetable garden, and an outdoor pond. |
| NM | Pojoaque High School | High school biology students will design and install a sustainable xeriscape on the 10,000 square feet of land on school grounds. |
| NY | Anam Duan | Seventh to 12th grade students in the Franciscan Earth Club plan on erecting four areas of eight foot high deer exlosure fencing in an existing forest to facilitate the growth of native tree seedlings. In the process, students will learn about forestry and wildlife issues in conjunction with construcing the fencing. |
| OH | Columbus School for Girls | Fourth grade students at Columbus School for Girls will study and identify 20 trees at a nearby park. They will then create educational markers and place them at the base of each type of tree. |
| OK | Salina Public School | Second grade students will plant, fertilize, mulch and border new trees and then build a protective fence around them |
| OK | Salina Public School | Fourth grade students will plant trees in an area along Main Street that experiences heavy pedestrian traffic. |
| OR | Pringle Elementary School | To honor the 150th anniversary of the school, students are converting an existing parking island into an outdoor classroom. The classroom will include native species, habitat gardens, memorial trees, paths, and a compass rose. |
| SC | Oakview Youth Garden Club | Club members in grades 3-5 want to attract bluebirds to the community by building bluebird houses and placing them on the school campus and in the community. During the fall, the club members will observe nature in the school's butterfly garden and use it as inspiration to write different forms of poetry. The members also plan to visit a local nursing home, bringing flowers for the residents and entertaining them with their poetry. They will also learn about flower bulbs as they plant and care for them. |
| SC | Communities in Schools of Saluda County | An multi-step project that has students 1. picking up debris from the ground, 2. high school agriculture students preparing the soil and planting grass seeds, 3. digging post holes and installing a fense, 4. planting of American Holly and Eastern Red Cedar trees and Yellow Jasmine, 5. building and installation of wren and bluebird boxes. |
| TX | Highland Lakes Elementary | Students will learn about the wetland ecosystem by developing an existing marsh on the school's property and then actively managing it for plants and wildlife. |
| VA | Perrymont Elementary School | Over the past few years, enrichment students developed a small wildlife habitat on the school grounds. This year, they will study the effect of weather on plants and animals. They plan on building a nature trail and outdoor classroom to help them with their lesson. |
