A.P.E. Fund Reviltalizing our gardens at our school Bowmanville, Ontario We are working on a mural project in our school this year with the Indigenous education department of our board. We are looking at the four seasons. As part of our grade 3 plant unit, I would like to have students plants some indigenous plants in our school gardens. Where Bowmanville, Ontario Areas of Impact Biodiversity Loss (Animals) Resources Our Resource section includes things like our Climate Change Curriculum Guide and our Biodiversity Guide. These can be helpful tools for any Roots & Shoots project! Discover Resources Explore Projects Biodiversity Loss (Animals) Biodiversity Loss (Animals), Climate Change (Environment) Save the ocean from plastic pollution: Our grade 3 class will be planning ways to both reduce plastic use in our classroom and school community. Along with finding creating ways that plastic can be reused in purposeful ways. Our grade 3 class discovered that there are many different ways to help protect our oceans. We decided to choose to focus on one area that can be purposefully done in our own class and school community, which is specific plans to encourage less plastic and purposefully reuse plastic. View project Biodiversity Loss (Animals), Climate Change (Environment) Chase Pollinator Project The goal of this project is to create safe habitat and food sources for local pollinators. We will set up a small food forest and two community pollinator gardens. We will offer many opportunities to educate community members on both the importance of pollinators and how to care for them. View project Biodiversity Loss (Animals), Climate Change (Environment), Environmental Inequity (People) xe’ xe’ smun’ eem The project this year has been inspired by one student in the class who decided that the school grounds had too much litter. The student encouraged several other people to join and form a club to improve the environment/habitat for our community and animals. View project
