GreenKids

About GreenKids | Lesson Plans & Activities | GreenKids Network | GreenKids in the News |  Resources for Educators |  Partnerships  | Contact GreenKids

About GreenKids
- What is GreenKids
- List of GreenKids Schools
- Apply to Become a GreenKids School
 

GreenKids Lesson Plans & Activities
   Energy Conservation & Recycling
- Growing Sunflowers in Biodegradable Pots
- Garbage-Eating Wonder Worms
- Deconstructing Trash
- Make Your Own Recycled Paper
- Watt's Up: Classroom Energy Audit

   Watershed Conservation
- Water Cycle Investigations
- Green Cleaners
- EnviroScapes™ Model
- Erosion in a Bottle
- Watershed in a Pan
- We All Live Downstream
- Stream Study

   Schoolyard Nature Investigations
- Sensory Adventure Nature Walks (K)
- Get in Touch with Trees (PreK-K: ©Project Learning Tree)
- Value of a Schoolyard Tree (2-3)
- Historical Uses of Trees  (4-5)
- Adopt a Tree (K-5: ©Project Learning Tree)

   Other Lessons & Activities
- Amazing Amaryllis
- Bee Informed, Bee Prepared
- Butterfly Cards: Maryland Native Butterflies
- Classroom Nature Discovery Centers
- Food Web Game Created by Clarksburg ES Teacher Karen Earp
- Fun with Food Chains
- Life in the Soil
- Water: A Key to Life on Earth
- Acting Out! The Sun, the Greenhouse Effect, the Carbon Cycle & Global Warming Theater

Create a school garden! Visit the MCPS Garden Template website for ideas, garden templates, plant lists, and more. This project, done in cooperation with the MCPS Department of Outdoor Education, the Montgomery County Master Gardeners, community volunteers and GreenKids, will help facilitate more school gardens sprouting up in schoolyards around the county!

GreenKids Network
- Introducing the GreenKids Network
- GreenKids Student Scientists in Action
- GreenKids Teachers' Resource Exchange 
- Help for Teachers! The GreenKids E-Hotline

GreenKids in the News
- Third-Graders Learn As They Create Plant-Themed Tiles
- Tomorrow's Trees Today: Gathering Seeds for Growing Native
- Lisa Alexander is awarded Washingtonian's Green Giant Honor
- GreenKids: Turning a Sense of Wonder into a Sense of Empowerment
- GreenKids Participates in Share the Adventure's Crayon Recycling Project
- Making Butterfly Dreams Come True: A Cross-Generational Partnership
- Six GreenKids Schools Receive MAEOE's Green School Certification 
- For Students, Environmental Change Starts at School
- American Plant Garden Center & Nursery Donates Plants to Schools
- GreenKids News Archive

Resources for Educators
- 10 Ways to Green Up Your Elementary Classroom
- 10 Ways to Green Up Your Middle & High School Classroom
- MAEOE Maryland Green School Award Program
- Virginia Naturally Schools
- Loudoun County, Virginia Recycling & Waste Management

Partnerships
- Growing Native
- Journey North
- Monarch Sister Schools Program
- MCPS School Energy & Recycling Team (SERT)
- LCPS Energy Education Team
- NWF Schoolyard Habitat®
- Tree-Mendous Maryland
- Trout in the Classroom

Contact GreenKids
GreenKids Program Director: Diane Lill
GreenKids@audubonnaturalist.org

GreenKids Staff