Lawton Grade5's List: Student Projects

• This would be a great book to use with the entire grade level. Do you think it would make a good whole-group read? --Lily - Lawton Grade5 on 2010-07-07

• Great resources if this is something we want to pursue. It might be a battle with facilities? I think we'd have some interested parents.
  
  The 1st and 2nd grade teachers seem interested in planting a school garden. Maybe the older kids could work on planning a rain garden. --Lily - Lawton Grade5 on 2010-07-05

• In the previous few weeks, Benge led hour-long lessons for the two dozen children in the YMCA’s after-school program as they learned about rain gardens and how they work, and studied native plants and habitat-building. 
• Rain gardens improve water quality by filtering pollutants and reducing the amount of storm-water runoff. The water easily seeps into the soil because of the native plants’ deep roots, replenishing the groundwater supply. 
• $1,200 grant
• Cindy Zeller’s environmental art class has already talked about storm-water runoff and researched plants suitable for a rain garden. “Now we’re going to keep a record of the growth and effects,” she said.

• “It’ll help our environment so we don’t have dirty water running all over the streets,” Garrett said.   

   

   “It’ll bring more animals and wildlife that we can come out and study, like butterflies and birds,” added sixth-grader Brianna Johnson.  
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• Potentially (if a project like this is a possibility at Lawton) one of us could teach these lessons (or bring in a speaker) during our project hour. Would everyone be exposed to these lessons, and then the student project team would work with a specialist/parent to select a possible site and purchase plants? --Lily - Lawton Grade5 on 2010-07-05