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Title: Getting Started on School Ground Greening


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Getting Started on School Ground Greening
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Agenda
  • Introduction to Evergreen Learning Grounds
  • Why start a greening project?
  • Benefits of green school grounds
  • The 5-step process
  • Discussion

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What is Evergreen?
  • Evergreen was founded in 1991 and is a national
    non-profit environmental organization with a
    mandate to bring nature to our cities through
    naturalization projects.

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The Learning Grounds Program
  • Helps schools green their grounds by providing
  • Hands-on expert advice
  • Funding
  • How-to resources, in print and online

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Goals for School Ground Greening
  • To improve childrens health and well-being
  • To nurture child development
  • To increase ecological diversity
  • To increase educational use
  • To improve energy- and cost-efficient design

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Why are Green School Grounds Important?
  • 25 percent of the school day is spent outside
  • They offer exciting ways to deliver the
    curriculum and teach ecological literacy
  • They can protect children from harmful exposure
    to sun

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What the research tells us
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A Place for Doing
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A Place for Thinking
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A Place for Feeling
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A Place for Being
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Evergreen Research
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Research Highlights
  • 90 of respondents observed an increase in
    student enthusiasm for learning
  • 72 of respondents observed that student ability
    to retain knowledge had increased
  • 77 of respondents reported student ability to
    think more creatively had increased

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Impacts of Green School Grounds
Educational Developmental Social
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  • Provide a variety of opportunities for cross
    curricular work

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  • Improve student behaviour

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  • Increase the quality and diversity of play

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  • Provide safer spaces for children

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Green School Grounds
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Barriers and Challenges
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Barriers and Challenges
  • Maintenance
  • Lack of community support
  • Volunteer burnout
  • Staff / parent / teacher mobility
  • Budget limitations
  • Vandalism

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  • An A-Mazing Idea!

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The School Ground Greening5-step Process
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School Ground GreeningStep 1 Get Started
  • Form a committee of volunteers
  • Plan a meeting with committee members
  • Prepare for volunteers

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Identifying Common Themes
  • Student council meetings
  • Identify changes they would like to see
  • Conduct in-class activities to capture student
    feedback
  • Provide questionnaires

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School Ground GreeningStep 2 Plan Your Project
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Key Questions to Ask Yourself
  1. Have you checked with the caretaker and Grounds
    Department, the main office and the police about
    required sight lines for safety, fire drills and
    security?
  2. Where are your sources of water?
  3. Are there any community concerns?
  4. Where does snow get piled up in the winter?

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The Big Picture Creating your Conceptual Design
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Creating your Conceptual Plan
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School Ground GreeningStep 3 Implement Your Plan
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Celebrate!
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School Ground GreeningStep 4 Maintain Your Site
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Allocate tasks
  • Weeding
  • Watering
  • Mulching

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Mulch is MagicSpread it!
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Seasonal Strategies
Spring Summer Autumn
Good time to weed and rake Store tools onsite in a secure area Thank summer helpers
Have a spring celebration and recruit more volunteers Make sure maintenance teams have access to an outdoor tap, which may require a special key. Let leaves and cuttings stay
Watch for the first robins to appear Provide written details on watering Use debris for art projects, lessons
Have weekend workshops to learn about topics such as native plants Post a maintenance schedule and mail it out Good time to weed and prune
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School Ground GreeningStep 5 Evaluate and
Monitor
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Before
After
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Thank you!
  • Hurry up and go slowly!
  • Take handouts
  • Fill out workshop evaluation
  • Questions?

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Photo Credits
  • Dolores Altin (53, 54)
  • Adrina Ambrosii (7b, 7e, 7f ,7g, 10 ,11, 32, 48,
    66)
  • Sylvie Bazinet (50, 29)
  • Joshua Berson (24, 29, 33, 56, 57)
  • Heidi Campbell (6, 7d, 8)
  • Robert Christie (18, 22, 25)
  • Cam Collyer (15 ,19 ,59)
  • Jessika Corkum (64, 64)
  • Bruce Day (30, 34 ,35 ,36 ,37 ,61 ,65)
  • Evergreen (7c, 28)
  • Kathy Goble (1, 12, 21)
  • Stella Grigorakis (46)
  • John Hillis (20, 29, 29)
  • Ruth Hoefner, Verna Schneider (13)
  • Brian Hydesmith (26)
  • Seana Irvine (60)
  • Krista Long (16)
  • Denny Manchee (41)
  • Debby Morton (27)
  • Roche McAuley Advertisers (4, 7a, 7h, 7i)
  • Karen Whitehorn (38, 39, 40, 42)
  • World Wildlife Fund for Nature (17)
  • ZiG (2)

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