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EcoSites is built on the three pillars of increasing environmental understandings, encouraging contact with the natural world, and developing and implementing environmental action projects in the school community.
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Cranston School - a CBE EcoSite

Cranston School's project which will be showcased at the Mayor's Environmental Expo in June is called, "How Green Can We Grow".  The project involves teaching students how to grow plants to lower our carbon footprint, by not having to buy food produced a great distance away.  The project ties in well with the Grade 4 topic of Study "Plants" in Science.

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EcoSites - Green Earth
Centennial High Schools Integrated Focus Program

Centennial High School has developed an innovative method of integrating environmental learning into their program. Green Earth – Environmental Studies is a new semester long multi course integrated program that used the environment as a integrating theme for inquiry. Francesca Corbett, the dynamic and passionate teacher designing and implementing the program at Centennial, has engaged students in personally meaningful learning while creating experiences the build citizenship in her students.

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EcoSites at a Junior High School
Alice Jamieson/Stanley Jones
An Emerging Green EcoSite

Stanley Jones School located on 6th St NE, is home to two CBE programs. Alice Jamieson Girls Academy is a Grade 4 – 9 school for girls; Stanley Jones School is a K – 9 school with a specialized program for deaf and hard of hearing students. Both campuses participated during the 2008-09 school year in the EcoSites initiative. Staff and students participated as a Emerging Green EcoSite.

The Three Pillars of EcoSites are:

• EcoLiteracy: Develop understanding
• EcoRelationships: Help students make connections
• EcoPlanning and Action: Change behaviours.

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Lord Beaverbrook High School – A Leading Green EcoSite

EcoSites is an environmental learning initiative which aims to support teachers and schools in advancing environmental literacy in their school learning communities. Schools can choose from three levels of EcoSites to meet the level of challenge/integration with curriculum they are interested in or can make fit. EcoSites participate each school year to become recognized again as either the same or a different level of EcoSite. EcoSites are recognized for their accomplishments at a recognition and celebration ceremony held in May of each year. As part of the recognition, EcoSites receive a rebate on actual utility cost reductions at their school that occur as a result of their environmental planning and action initiatives.

Lord Beaverbrook High School (LBHS) is the largest high school in Calgary, has many environmental initiatives underway, and offers the LDC Env Studies 25/35 to its students. Teacher Maureen Pettigrew and Principal Dianne Yee have been major drivers of environmental learning at Beaverbrook over the past number of years. | Read more

WH Cushing Workplace School – an EcoSite in Action

Students and teachers at WH Cushing Workplace school participated as a pilot site in EcoSites during the 2008-09 school year. There goal was to become a ‘Green’ EcoSite. There are three levels of becoming an EcoSite – Emerging Green; Green; and Leading Green. To do this Teachers embed environmental learning into their core curriculum, provide opportunities for students to engage with the natural world, and plan and implement a series of environmental action projects aimed at reducing ecological footprint. | Read more

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