Projects Funded in 2009-2010 Grant Cycle
Project: "Eco-Buddies" Team Working to Improve Reducing and Recyling Efforts at Roosevelt. The Eco-buddies are divided into three sub-teams: "Super-Recycling People," "Junk Users," and "Smarticle Particles."
School: Roosevelt Elementary
Grade: 2nd and 5th Grades
Sponsoring Teachers: Barbara Sandstrom and Donna Nestoss
Activities:
The Super Recycling People will improve Roosevelt Elementary’s recycling efforts by:
1. providing organic t-shirts with recycling messages for each member of the “Get the Word Out” campaign team
2. creating signs on recycled paper encouraging students and teachers to recycle
3. providing paper recycling crates to classrooms
4. collecting and weighing recycled paper and keeping a chart of the school’s progress
5. contacting Waste Management and working with them to improve recycling pickup at Roosevelt
1. creating crafts out of reused materials
2. showing others in the school how to make the crafts
The Smarticle Particles will report on the work and message of the “Get the Word Out” campaign by:
1. creating news videos to be placed on Roosevelt’s webpage and in all of the classrooms
2. creating a dvd of the news videos and placing it in the family center at Roosevelt
3. producing a newsletter
Award: $428; half of this amount is being matched by Roosevelt's Parent Teacher Organization
Project: Cold Air Destroyers!
School: Miller Elementary
Grade: 2nd Grade
Sponsoring Teacher: Amy Ersland
Activities:
The Cold Air Destroyer team will take initial temperature data near leaky windows in their classroom on a cold day this winter.
Don Shimek, Miller’s custodian will replace caulking in five windows in the second grade classroom, four windows in the library, and five windows in the third grade classroom, for $100 per window. He will do this in the spring of 2010.
In winter of 2010-2011, the Cold Air Destroyer team will return to the initially tested window on a day that is similar in weather to the first testing day the previous year. They will take repeat temperature data near the improved windows and compare it with their earlier data.
Award: $1,400; $500 of this amount is being provided by Miller Elementary's Parent Teacher Organization
