Through reading a Portland Press Herald article entitled “Plenty of Shrimp, Few Buyers,” students in a high school business enterprise…
In the fall of 2004, Mount Desert Island High School offered a course, “Election 2004: Democracy in Action,” designed to…
High school physics students joined with teachers and community members to construct a solar energy system for their school greenhouse—as…
During a lab investigation, students became aware of the environmental costs of plastic water bottles. Following a lively discussion, students…
During units on ecology and the human body, students were invited to undertake a service-learning project. In collaboration with the…
In cooperation with the school’s Environmental Club and the local chapter of Trout Unlimited, students used their science skills to…
In conjunction with their energy curriculum (and meeting state standards for skills of inquiry), eighth graders sought to reduce the…
Sixth-grade students expressed interest in helping to reduce the volume of trash their school generated, a service-learning project that fit…
When sixth-graders were finishing a curriculum unit on climate change, they wanted to undertake a project that would reduce their…
Lincoln Middle School has an active school garden, and physical science students realized they could help “green” their school by…