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ENVIRONMENT ACTIVITIES
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BRAEMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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(Thain Creek)
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RECYCLING
The school recycles everything. Students are very involved in collection.
A few classrooms have worm composting bins as well.
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STREAM STUDIES
The school participates in the "Salmonids in the Classroom" program, raising chum fry from eggs, then releasing them.
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| | Each year some of the classes pull accumulated garbage and litter out of the creek, while learning why it is important to keep all streams and creeks clean.
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Every couple of years some classes learn about native plants, and then plant some near the creek to help encourage the natural vegetation.
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OUTDOOR CLASSROOM
For Earth Day 2006, the Parents-4-Science & Braemar PAC built an outdoor classroom, in the form of terraced stone benches.
This created a space where teachers could take any class outside to learn and connect with nature.
Each student planted a tree, bush, or native plant on the school property to celebrate Earth Day that year.
Each student also painted a fish that was put along a fence at the school, to help raise everyone's awareness of Thain Creek. To be more environmentally friendly, unwanted paint was collected from local paint stores for use in this project.
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PAST PROJECTS
STREAM STUDIES
In the past, Braemar Elementary School took advantage of its "outdoor classroom", Thain Creek. Students from Kindergarten to Grade 7 participated in a variety of stream studies and activities. These included physical stream measurements, water quality sampling, invertebrate sampling, storm drain marking, habitat comparisons and a walking field trip following the course of the creek down to the ocean.
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PAST PROJECTS
THINK THAIN
Parents-4-Science, a sub-group of the Braemar Parent Advisory Council, initiated the "Think Thain" program in conjunction with teachers in the Spring of 1999. The objective was to generate enthusiasm for protecting the local stream by providing students with an opportunity for hands-on learning and to promote an understanding and respect for the environment.
The entire school celebrated Earth Day 1999 and 2000 with each student planting a shrub or tree along the stream bank.
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---- updated May, 2010
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