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

Congratulations to the following GreenKids schools for earning
the Maryland Green School award:

Ashburton ES, Bethesda ES, Beverly Farms ES, College Gardens ES,
Forest Knolls ES, Garrett Park ES, New Hampshire Estates ES,
Sligo Creek ES & Rocky Hill MS !

And to North Chevy Chase ES for achieving recertification!
Learn more

GreenKids Lesson Plans & Activities
   GreenKids lessons are being revised.
   Revised lesson plans will be posted in September 2010.

   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 (under revision)
- Green Cleaners
- EnviroScapes™ Model
- Erosion in a Bottle
- Watershed in a Pan
- Stream Study

   Schoolyard Nature Investigations
- Sensory Adventure Nature Walks (K)
- Historical Uses of Trees (4-5)

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
- Stream Studies Carry Local Elementary Students Closer to Science
- Nine More GreenKids Schools Earn Maryland Green School Certification
- College Garden ES Students Hold a Press Conference for Healthy Food
- Rocky Hill Middle School Students Raise & Release Rainbow Trout
- Green Groups Team Up With Two Schools in Loudoun County
- Westbrook Students Honor Earth Week
- Third-Graders Learn As They Create Plant-Themed Tiles
- Tomorrow's Trees Today: Gathering Seeds for Growing Native
- GreenKids: Turning a Sense of Wonder into a Sense of Empowerment
- Making Butterfly Dreams Come True: A Cross-Generational Partnership
- For Students, Environmental Change Starts at School
- American Plant Garden Center & Nursery Donates Plants to Schools
- GreenKids News Archive

Resources for Educators
- Butterfly Cards: Maryland Native Butterflies
- Growing Native Fall Seed Collection Resource Packet
- 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
- Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy's Checklist of Butterflies
- Food Web Game Created by Clarksburg ES Teacher Karen Earp
- We All Live Downstream
- The Sun, the Greenhouse Effect, the Carbon Cycle & Global Warming Theater

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

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