Summary of EAT
EAT (Environmental Action Team) is a group of University School Middle School students, led by Kip Jacobs, 7th grade Science teacher. EAT was formed to help recycle the waste products of USM. The group meets after school once or twice a week. At least once a week, certain students are assigned different areas of the school and walk through the halls with rolling bins, going into each classroom and gathering the recycling products. The team collects paper products, bottles and cans. The other times the students meet are to form ideas on how to improve recycling.
Also the students have started an elaborate composting project. Mr. Jacobs brings in speakers from Growing Power and The Urban Ecology Center which are environmental organizations in Milwaukee. EAT has placed a compost bin in the Middle School lunchroom for students to recycle their food waste. Students and the kitchens dispose of everything from fruit peelings to uneaten vegetables to egg shells, and other nature-based products. Every week EAT members bring the food waste to the composting palettes outside our school. After this food is decomposed, we will use it for landscaping, our greenhouse, and possibly for farming vegetables.
Through EAT, students get a chance to observe the cycle of nature, do hands on experiments, help solve environmental issues, and get involved in the community. We hope that by EAT’s examples, our school will also reach out to nature and help the environment by recycling and composting.
Georgie and Kim
January 25, 2007
2 comments:
New additions:
1. cross-divisional bake sale to fundraise
2. Mug Club
3. Composting across divisions
4. Still Mr. Jacobs in MS, but added Mrs. De Torre in MS, Mrs. Bernacchi is LS, Mrs. Konkol in US
5. Environmental education through assemblies (skits, games, movies, paper pads for teachers, cardboard collection boxes)
6. Interviews for Wildcat News
7. Wheels for recycle bins
8. Collaboration with Growing Power
9. Plant sale in spring (basil/tomoato)
10. Using greenhouse to transplant
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EAT is proud to improve USM's environmental impact. We cut down on waste with the mug club, and we collect recyclables throughout the school. The garden provides us with nourishing and local food for our lunchtime salad bar. To keep our garden lushious, we compost and vermicompost throughout the year. In the winter we also like to create informational projects to share with the school at assemblies. In the spring we sell basil and tomato plants that grow in our homemade potting soil. EAT is FUN and educational. GO EAT!!!!! ;)
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