All GREEN Schools projects

Tracking Trash

Every year, in April, our class does a special school clean-up for four days. One partner picks up the garbage and the other partner writes down what type of garbage it is, on a data collection sheet. Each student gets 2 turns to pick up garbage and 2 turns to record data. We clean all around the schoolyards and in the park playground. The students count up their data and we add all of the...

Nestor Elementary - Coquitlam

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Daffodils

Three classes of students participated in the "Daffodil is a Promise", BC Min of Agriculture program. Each student helped to plant one or more daffodils around the school and in the courtyard. We learned about the daffodil life cycle and cut open a bulb to look inside. We made sketches and wrote about our daffodils. Our school looked so bright and cheery in the Spring, when the...

Nestor Elementary - Coquitlam

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Mason Bee activity

Our class raises Mason Bees to help with early Spring pollination. In the Fall, we open our Mason Bee "paper straws" to remove and clean the cocoons. They are put in a fridge for the winter, in a special "humidity container". In the Spring we put the cocoons into our Mason Bee house. This year we were given a beautiful new house by our local "Bee Man",...

Nestor Elementary - Coquitlam

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Funders and Sponsors

  • RBC Foundation
  • The Calgary Foundation
  • Kamp Kiwanis
  • Cenovus Energy
  • Alliance Pipeline
  • TD Friends of the Enivornment Foundation
  • Rife Resources Ltd