growing connections 2011
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Co-presentation with Audubon at Home for Arlington Green Expo, Schools ForumTRANSCRIPT
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Growing ConnectionsThrough Outdoor Education
Mary Van Dyke for Green Schools @ Green Living Expo
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Where?
Arlington Traditional School (ATS) Garden
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Players….Connections
• Identify your community webs
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Goals?
• Increase biodiversity– Native/non-native
• Build community– Awareness– Appreciation– Stewardship and Outdoor Learning
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Make it happen…
• Info exchangesLiaise with school communityPublicity, blog, invite experts and volunteers, google groups, email,apsgreenschools
• Plant exchanges
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Low Budget - High Value
• Donations• PTA Funds• School Budget
•Grants•Plant Sale
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Plan B - bees, rakes, rain…
Risk Management Trainings: 4-H, Arlington Regional Master Naturalists, Master
Gardeners
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Link it!
• SOLs• Science• Social Studies• Art• Math• Curriculum• Be creative!
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Stage events…
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Just do it! Plant Sale funds Pollinator
Garden
• Community awareness and participationGo with what you’ve got - the Second Grade Team
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Neighborhood Day
• Spanish/English flyer• Invite the neighbors!• Link with County and Civic Association
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Colonial Williamsburg Garden
• 4th Grade Virginia Studies• Study and label plants - properties
and uses• Native and non-native plants
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Veg Patch - Food to Eat
• Start small and grow• Link growing and eating• Give to own community• “Plant a Row” for AFAC• APS Food Services accept vegetables and
herbs
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4th and 5th Grade Lunch Bunches“Found Nature!”
• 6-8 self-selected kids• Pilot Outdoor Learning • Lessons curriculum-
linked1. Our Colonial Garden2. Plant/Weed ID3. Bug Hunt and Food Web4. Seeds and Food5. Bulbs and Corms6. Watering Techniques7. Dig it! Soil Science8. Tweet Tweet: Look Listen
and Learn about Birds
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Uganda Garden
• ATS has a sister school in Uganda• 3rd grade study Mali too• Make people and crop connections
– Plant bananas, peanuts, beans, sesame
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Trees - The Big Picture
• What do they need to thrive?– Water, soil conditions, sunlight, care
• “Adopt a Tree”: county/staff/students/PTA memorandum• Technology and Trees: Tree ID, Calculate Tree
Benefits online and Map trees with Googlemaps• Extended Day and NOVA Outside Tree Lessons
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Summer Watering
Have fun!
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Maintenance?
• Who does what when?• Make opportunities
– “Green Hours”– Weekend “Big Projects”– Students recess lunch bunch and classes– Volunteers– Custodians– Just hire folks in - if so who, and who pays?
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Native Habitat Project and Stormwater
Management• Best Management Practices– Native Habitats – Rain Cisterns,– Rain Garden
• Players– County, PTA, Staff,
Students, Earth Sangha, ACE, AudubonCommunity Volunteer Network
• Learning opportunities- Chesapeake Bay issues- 4th and 5th curriculum
• Funding $$$– Fundraising, Grants
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Native VA Landscapes
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Thanks everyone!
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Contact: Mary Van Dyke, [email protected]
The ATS Gardening Blog is on Arlington Public Schools website.