Stewardship = Knowledge + Skills + Attitude + Motivation
At The Baltimore Lab School we apply our multi-sensory, experiential, success-based 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 is 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" art, music, photography, science, government, history, geography, language arts, math, and physical education. 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.
We use the Chesapeake Bay Foundation Issues Investigation Framework to facilitate learning that ends in student driven action projects. Thanks to a grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust (funded by sales of Maryland's Treasure of the Chesapeake license plate) we leave our urban campus to get outside and learn through hands-on experiences. Most of our student driven best management practices are done off-site. Learning and student driven action projects were completed in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed flowing from the sub watersheds of the Jones Falls to 106 miles south into the Chesapeake Bay and Port Isobel Island, Virginia.
September 2011-present. Our journey to "Green".
Monthly Green School Committee Meetings.
Our Green School application process was started by 3 teachers in 2011 and now includes the entire school. Our committee meets on a monthly basis. Everyone has access to our Green School files to document the green school activities our staff was teaching.
Students are involved in the application process!
Students became involved in the application in July of 2012. They became our "weebly experts" by creating student Weebly's focused on "Saving the Chesapeake Bay."
Also, during the summer of 2012, students and staff began participating in Outdoor Education trips and projects as Baltimore Lab School Watershed Stewards. This was made possible by a grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust. After attending Chesapeake Bay Foundation trips students were motivated to investigate issues and ask questions. As a result of this process, teachers facilitated the completion of action projects through their academic classes.
All staff and students are aware of the Green School application process.
Additional students and staff were invited to join our application process in November of 2013. A Google doc was created to form the outline for the application and share the responsibility of documenting information with the whole school.
Let's give a big shout out to Nancy Feldman! Her students in 11th grade started an online environmental blog for everyday living, www.greencamera.weebly.com. The students added documentation and photographs to www.baltimorelabschool.weebly.com starting in November of 2013.
At The Baltimore Lab School we apply our multi-sensory, experiential, success-based 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 is 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" art, music, photography, science, government, history, geography, language arts, math, and physical education. 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.
We use the Chesapeake Bay Foundation Issues Investigation Framework to facilitate learning that ends in student driven action projects. Thanks to a grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust (funded by sales of Maryland's Treasure of the Chesapeake license plate) we leave our urban campus to get outside and learn through hands-on experiences. Most of our student driven best management practices are done off-site. Learning and student driven action projects were completed in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed flowing from the sub watersheds of the Jones Falls to 106 miles south into the Chesapeake Bay and Port Isobel Island, Virginia.
September 2011-present. Our journey to "Green".
Monthly Green School Committee Meetings.
Our Green School application process was started by 3 teachers in 2011 and now includes the entire school. Our committee meets on a monthly basis. Everyone has access to our Green School files to document the green school activities our staff was teaching.
Students are involved in the application process!
Students became involved in the application in July of 2012. They became our "weebly experts" by creating student Weebly's focused on "Saving the Chesapeake Bay."
Also, during the summer of 2012, students and staff began participating in Outdoor Education trips and projects as Baltimore Lab School Watershed Stewards. This was made possible by a grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust. After attending Chesapeake Bay Foundation trips students were motivated to investigate issues and ask questions. As a result of this process, teachers facilitated the completion of action projects through their academic classes.
All staff and students are aware of the Green School application process.
Additional students and staff were invited to join our application process in November of 2013. A Google doc was created to form the outline for the application and share the responsibility of documenting information with the whole school.
Let's give a big shout out to Nancy Feldman! Her students in 11th grade started an online environmental blog for everyday living, www.greencamera.weebly.com. The students added documentation and photographs to www.baltimorelabschool.weebly.com starting in November of 2013.