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At Baltimore Lab School, we apply our multi-sensory, experiential, arts-based Academic Club Methodology approach to adventure-based learning and environmental literacy goals. Through academic classes, adventure activities, outdoor day trips, and longer excursions, students explore their world, build their self-esteem, and emerge with a stronger sense of themselves as leaders and environmental stewards. The form and content of outdoor environmental activities are designed to give students an “I can do it!” experience, and help them meet specific environmental-issue instruction goals. Environmental literacy is developed in scope and sequence in all grades and "threaded through" the arts, sciences, social studies, and humanities, in addition to a wide variety of experiences outside of school. Teachers in these disciplines collaborate to add content, meaning, and hands-on extension activities that allow our students to become true stewards of the environment.
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AIMS ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT
Schools within the Association of Independent Maryland and DC Schools (AIMS) endorse the goal of preparing students to navigate the challenges they will face in the future. In this era of significant and expanding ecological stress, here at home and around the globe, environmental sustainability is a core concern facing our society. AIMS schools recognize that an understanding of the natural world and the impact humans have upon it is an educational and institutional value. Accordingly, we encourage our schools to foster and support substantive environmental education experiences for all students and to seek to model sustainable practices within our physical plant operations and our school leadership practices.
AIMS endorses school programs that focus on the interrelatedness of all species and the vital role that every human being plays in sustaining a healthy biosphere. To further the environmental ethic within our communities, AIMS urges school leaders to cultivate wit in all members of the school community an attitude of environmental responsibility, to embrace sustainable campus practices, and to promote student learning of environmental sustainability in the classroom, on the campus grounds, in the surrounding watershed, and within the wider world.
AIMS endorses school programs that focus on the interrelatedness of all species and the vital role that every human being plays in sustaining a healthy biosphere. To further the environmental ethic within our communities, AIMS urges school leaders to cultivate wit in all members of the school community an attitude of environmental responsibility, to embrace sustainable campus practices, and to promote student learning of environmental sustainability in the classroom, on the campus grounds, in the surrounding watershed, and within the wider world.