Friday, October 17th, 2014
Visit to Houghton Elementary School
Our team will travel to different classrooms to deliver a presentation to all 4th and 5th grade students. We will educate them on the importance of native plants in ecosystems, and how several newer invasive exotic plants are posing a threat to the diversity of our native plants.
We will share our project with the students, and challenge them to get involved by planting (their choice of) a native white pine seedling or packet of (mixed) milkweed seeds, packaged and supplied by our team. A form signed by their parents must be returned to their teacher by 10/24, indicating that they planted their seeds/seedling and visited our website to learn more about our project. Classes will be pitted against each other in friendly competition.... The class in each grade with the highest % of participation will win an extra recess, and the overall winning class will have a (native) tree planted on school grounds with a commemorative plaque.
Visit to Houghton Elementary School
Our team will travel to different classrooms to deliver a presentation to all 4th and 5th grade students. We will educate them on the importance of native plants in ecosystems, and how several newer invasive exotic plants are posing a threat to the diversity of our native plants.
We will share our project with the students, and challenge them to get involved by planting (their choice of) a native white pine seedling or packet of (mixed) milkweed seeds, packaged and supplied by our team. A form signed by their parents must be returned to their teacher by 10/24, indicating that they planted their seeds/seedling and visited our website to learn more about our project. Classes will be pitted against each other in friendly competition.... The class in each grade with the highest % of participation will win an extra recess, and the overall winning class will have a (native) tree planted on school grounds with a commemorative plaque.