Objective 2.1: Water Conservation/
Water Pollution Prevention
Action 1
Teacher(s): Ms Poole & Ms Riorda
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Grade: 5-8
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Date: December 5th, 2019
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Description: The B’More Green club members are committed to helping to clean our waterways. In December, we spent an afternoon identifying the storm drains we wanted to adopt. We then cleared the drains and the areas that drain into the drains of trash and debris.
B'More Green Club with the trash they collected
B'More Green Club members cleaning up the pathways to the storm drains
Action 2
Teacher(s): Ms Poole & Ms Riorda
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Grade: 5-8
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Date: March 12, 2020
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Description: The B’More Green club members identified the storm drains they wanted to adopt and stenciled them with anti-pollution messages from the templates provided by Blue Water Baltimore.
B'More Green club members painting approved storm water drains around Patterson Park neighborhood
Email from Principal Hornbeck approving storm drain initiative
Approval letter to participate in drain stenciling
Action 3
Teacher(s): Ms. Luthers, Mr. Plunk, Mr. Lucas
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Grade: 8th
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Date: April 2018, 2019 and scheduled for 4/17/2020
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Description: Canoe and Scoop at Middle Branch Park. After learning about the impact of storm drain water pollution, 45 8th grade students took a field trip to Middle Branch Park. The Baltimore Parks and Recreation Department has a canoe and scoop program to help clean up the shoreline. Students rotate between picking up trash by boat and by land. Seeing the huge volume of garbage has a real impact on the students.
All the waste we collected off the shores of the middle branch of the Potapsco River
Examples of the amount of garbage that washes up on shore
Students canoeing and gathering trash from the water. Even a chair was taken out of the water!
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Examples of student reflections after this activity