Green School Awards Winners and Highlights:
AC REYNOLDS MIDDLE -- BCS Green School
Grant applications for garden and outdoor classroom project.
Extensive recycling, reuse, recycled cartridges, trash pick up, battery recycling.
Weekly Announcements By Students "How We Can Help the Earth".
AC REYNOLDS HIGH -- BCS Green School
Green Team with before school meetings every Thursday.
Worked with Seth McLamb, Maintenance BCS, to reduce energy consumption at ACRHS.
Attempted
to change cafeteria 'free from disposable utensils', alternate choice
was selling reusable sets to students during lunch.
Team members attended UNCA Organic Growers School.
Green Team worked with Health Food Club to establish and maintain organic garden (donated produce to Food for Fairview).
Worked
toward composting with Danny's Dumpsters although not actualized,
student educational campaign about composting was successful.
BARNARDSVILLE ELEMENTARY -- BCS Green School
The
Treasure Trove of Conservation Cove: A Pirate’s Tale presented
information to BES students about the importance of saving energy and
natural resources.
Student-driven Recycling Program.
Outdoor Learning Space and garden.
Formation of an Environmental Club.
BELL ELEMENTARY -- BCS Green School
Extensive use of Courtyards as learning environments including Recycle Art display and a Milkweed garden.
Celebrations book called "Being Green” – collection of Green projects, writings and artwork from the school.
Entire school (students and teachers) wore green to honor their Green Team visit
BLACK MOUNTAIN PRIMARY -- BCS Green School
Raised
bed gardens in different areas around the school have been developed
over the last three years with the support of the NC Garden Project, the
Town of Black Mountain and their PTO. The Summer Daycare program waters
and harvests the gardens over the summer.
Creation
of an edible landscape by planting an apple orchard on a steep slope.
This stops erosion and eliminates mowing and use of fossil fuels. Area
college volunteers help with upkeep.
The
PTO is leading the school Green Team. Working with a company called
Terracycle they get paid to recycle items such as glue sticks and
bottles, transparent tape center rolls, toilet paper plastic bags and
plastic lunch kits.
BC EARLY COLLEGE -- BCS Green School
Nature
trail (cleared area and thinned trees), bluebird houses, butterfly
habitat – teaching tool for other younger students from other schools.
Master Gardeners' grants awarded for gardens.
Garden with koi pond with solar panel to power pond pump, (Grant from AB Tech Global Institute for Sustainable Technologies).
Vegetable garden - harvested food is shared with Manna Food Bank.
Visits to Asheville Greenworks, etc. Fish Hatchery and NC Arboretum.
Excellent example of community involvement with green projects.
CANE CREEK MIDDLE -- NC Green School
- 8th grade 'Creek Week' every fall.
- Soil and Water Environscape with education about point and non point pollution sources.
- Student led, active Green Team, along with teacher, administrative and media center support.
- Recycling paper, plastic, glass, printer/toner cartridges, batteries and paper (40,000 lbs/year).
- Energy Star Rating 81, worked with Clark Wyatt, Maintenance BCS, and Scott Emory, Head Electrician, $19,000 in energy savings.
- Improvements
include replacing Exit Lights/LED installation, heating HVAC changes,
removed 248 in use bulbs from hallway areas, added new weather stripping
to doors.
C.D. OWEN MIDDLE -- NC Green School
Student led Green Team was aware of energy saving and awareness measures implemented by the 6th grade, 7thgrade, 8th grade and the Science Olympiad program.
- PV solar array funded by a grant in the school’s main courtyard. The solar panels power 1-2 computers at a time.
- courtyard gardens, rain barrel, lily pond and weather box which measures rainfall, wind (by anemometer) and barometer.
- Students collect recycling each day.
CHARLES T. KOONTZ INTERMEDIATE -- NC Green School
- Student Green Team meets weekly to raise awareness of current environmental topics and manage school-wide recycling program.
- Awarded $18,000 matching grant from Community Benefit Program of Mission Hospital for the Learning Garden Project On Earth Day, all students watched the documentary film Bag It; in response, students made reusable grocery bags from old t-shirts.
- Various materials used throughout the building are reused by students for multiple projects.
- Habitat restoration projects use native plants to attract and protect wildlife.
- Environmental Literacy is integrated into Science, ELA, and Social Studies curricula.
ENKA HIGH -- BCS Green School
- Professional development on technology to move toward a paperless school.
- A
student-initiated energy conservation program with observable results
in energy bills promotes efficient light use in the classrooms.
- A
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle culture is evident throughout the school with
strong recycling program and innovations to reduce the use of resources
such as paper.
- Faculty include green projects in the curriculum.
- Two courtyards with native species landscaping and mulch produced on-site from downed trees.
FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY -- NC Green School
School garden with compost bin was awarded $1500 grant for improvement including the planting of fruit trees.
Plastic bottles are being collected to create the structure for a greenhouse.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle policy encouraged throughout school.
School
lighting recently replaced with energy-efficient light bulbs; air
conditioners and heaters remain off when students are not in school.
4th and 5th grade AIG classes research environmental issues.
GLEN ARDEN ELEMENTARY -- BCS Green School
Ms. Altman, 3rd grade teacher, integrates science and social studies strands on geography to teach a water conservation unit.
2ndgraders
participate in a year-long cooking program with ASAP and Red Stag Grill
to learn about locally available and healthy food.
The Glen Arden Garden is maintained by Mrs. Bassett’s 2nd grade class and is available to all teachers and students for learning, observation, and self-discovery.
After-school reading club “Eco-readers” focuses on the study of literature concentrating on environmental care.
Researching possibility of reducing cafeteria waste through composting.
HAW CREEK ELEMENTARY -- BCS Green School
- CERTIFIED WILDLIFE HABITAT NATURE TRAIL around the school.
- weekend
work groups - vegetable and extensive flower gardens (native flower
garden), maintained by parent volunteers and students; promotes
community engagement
- CERTIFIED MONARCH WAY STATION with milkweed and butterfly chrysalises present on the milkweed.
- Recycled student art projects displayed in gardens.
HOMINY VALLEY ELEMENTARY -- NC Green School
- School wide energy conservation focus (turn off lights signage, team members turning off computers and monitors).
- Certified Wildlife Habitat (National Wildlife Federation).
- Art Classes use varied recycled items for art class projects and other needs (set backdrops, etc.).
- AM News TEAM shares "GO GREEN" tip every morning as well as other "GREEN SCHOOL NEWS".
- Contest "Walk for Shade" fund raiser to purchase and to plant trees at the school.
- Partnership and Community Activities include:
1. 5th grade attending Enka HS "Ag Day" with Earth Day Activities.
2. 4th and 5th Grade followup to National Geographic Program with "The Human Footprint".
3. Community garden plots for every grade level has begun (different vegetables for each).
4. Rainforest Guest Speaker, trip to NC Arboretum.
5. Park Ranger program on native/non native insects of WNC.
JOHNSTON ELEMENTARY -- BCS Green School
- Creation Station (materials for reuse collected in bin).
- Rain barrel, compost bin, beginning garden.
- Great student participation throughout school.
LEICESTER ELEMENTARY -- BCS Green School
- Reusing and recycling are incorporated into many classroom and art projects.
- Resource use is reduced by turning off lights, adjusting climate controls, and discouraging water and paper towel consumption.
- Recycling
program has expanded over the last few years to include glass, plastic,
and aluminum, as well as difficult-to-recycle items such as cell
phones, ink cartridges, and drink pouches.
- Landfill use is reduced by encouraging donations of used shoes and clothing, and book swaps for used books.
NORTH BUNCOMBE MIDDLE -- BCS Green School
- Great cross-curriculum emphasis – reading, writing, mathematics, science.
- Peaceful Paradise Garden.
- GREEN
NIGHT celebration for the last 3 years (all 7th grade teachers and
students with family and friends. Topics include vermiculture, science
fiction inventions, garden, furoshiki, plastic bags math, etc.
- Kick Off - Earth Day with student viewing of "Bag It - Is Your Life Too Plastic" Movie.
- Trash
It - Mathematics classroom is exploring the ratio of trash to recycling
for our school. Based on the volume of trash cans and recycling bins
and the number of containers throughout the school, they estimated how
much trash and recycling the school produces in a day.
NORTH BUNCOMBE HIGH -- BCS Green School
- Huge recycling center (serves other schools), rain barrel.
- Reading Riding Retrofit Grant for alternative energy materials (kill a watt meters, solar cells, wind turbine etc.),
- trout farming in class.
- Ecycle program-free recycle program (free pool pass for old tech items) AP students Community Environmental Activities.
- Purchase Knob Research field trip.
- Speakers from Great Smoky MNP and from River Keepers.
- Carbon/ecological footprint activities.
NORTH WINDY RIDGE INTERMEDIATE -- BCS Green School
- 5th graders participate in Environmental Education Field Day at Warren Wilson College.
- Environment,
Grounds, and Garden Committee provides training for teachers on school
garden development, outdoor education, grounds improvement and direction
on ways to protect our planet.
- Water conservation is strongly
encouraged by PSAs and visual reminders, and two rain barrels collect
water to irrigate the school and 4-H garden beds.
- Student Go Green Club manages school-wide recycling program.
- Outdoor landscaping emphasizes native species, and an existing wetland area on school grounds has been protected.
OAKLEY ELEMENTARY -- BCS Green School
- Entire school emphasis.
- Kindergarten – rainforest animals.
- Earth day, soil study, ranger visits, gardens, rain barrel, most students were involved in sharing projects.
- Media center tech items - recycling.
- Greenhouse - raised plants and actually prepping soil and planting garden.
- Great clubs emphasis school-wide to get all students involved.
PISGAH ELEMENTARY -- BCS Green School
- Recycling paper, bottles, ink cartridges, cell phones.
- Newsletter encouraging donation of recycled materials and 'green school activities'.
- Gardening Club beginnings for community vegetable and flower garden.
- Earthday Network connections for collaboration and planning (combining literacy and green school activities).
- ART classes use recycled materials in many art projects.
- School wide encouragement for reusable lunch containers and utensils.
- EarthDay celebration and activities in association with EarthDay Network connection.
SAND HILL-VENABLE ELEMENTARY -- BCS Green School
- Outdoor garden with six raised garden beds.
- The
school’s Green Team hosted a booth on “Super Saturday” to educate about
the school garden, the nearby community garden, and the basics of
living a healthy lifestyle.
- Volunteers from community partner Home Depot taught lessons about gardening in the classrooms.
- Buncombe
County Schools maintenance workers provide professional development to
school staff on ways to reduce energy consumption in the classrooms.
- Recycling
program with cardboard and paper bins in each classroom, and plastic
and aluminum bins in each grade level area; this program is being
expanded to include ink cartridges, batteries and cell phones.
W.D. WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY -- BCS Green School
- Recycling program for all paper, print cartridges, batteries, bottles, cans, etc.
- CANIMALS art project with adorable creative animals made from crushed cans.
- Earth Day Recognition aligned with school wide environmental awareness.
- Nature Trail with tree and plant identification.
- Warren Wilson Environmental Program for 2nd and 3rd grade.
- Garden areas for Kindergarten and First Grade.
WEAVERVILLE ELEMENTARY -- BCS Green School
- 2nd
grade field trip to Echoview Farms Mill to observe sustainable
practices in building design (solar energy, geothermal wells) and
efficient manufacturing of materials.
- Outdoor learning facilities
include a greenhouse, outdoor raised garden, and butterfly garden. The
school is an official Monarch Butterfly Waystation, and students
participate in Citizen Science projects.
- Recycling and resource
conservation is encouraged throughout the school through signs and
reminders about reusable water bottles, turning off lights when not in
use, and Bus Ridership Week.
- School celebrates and participates in activities for Arbor Day, Earth Day, and Global Awareness Day.
WEAVERVILLE PRIMARY -- BCS Green School
- Kindergarten - Earth Day Bulletin Board Keep Playground Safe and Clean, Earth Day.
- Kindergarten and 1st rotated around to different teachers for Earth Day activities.
- PSAs in the morning.
- Arboretum trip---Creek Crawling.
- School has had an Energy committee since 2002.
- Principal's Notebook - Green School information from all the teachers about their activities.
WOODFIN ELEMENTARY -- BCS Green School
- Earth Day Poster contest.
- Blue container recycling school wide, ink cartridge recycling.
- Courtyard with indigenous plants, water barrel.
- Birdhouse habitat project.
- Field trip to Nature Center - Kindergarten and 3rd grades.
- Sidewalks grant with city should be finished by October. This will allow students to walk or ride bikes to school
- Green Team at the school for the past two years.