Environmental Education

For Download:

• 2007-2008 Enviro-Lessons Syllabus 4.17MB

Keep Akron Beautiful (KAB) contracts with the Akron Public Schools for the services of an Education Specialist, who spends time in the classroom and conducts teacher-training workshops. Most of the school year, the Education Specialist is in the classrooms, K-12, teaching the hazards of litter and promoting the 3 R's of solid waste management – Reduce, Reuse & Recycle. At the onset of each new school year, a syllabus of environmental hands-on presentations, conducted by the Education Specialist, is provided to all Akron public and private schools. Educators may make their selections.

Classroom/Group Presentations

Here are the guidelines for the classroom/group presentations:

Enviro-Lessons to Energize Your Classroom

Click here for Presentation Registration Form

Guidelines for 2007-2008 Classroom / Group Presentations:

• Experimental learning through hands-on activities;
• Individual classroom presentations only (NO large assemblies);
• Teacher / student involvement during the classroom exercise;
• Presentations scheduled only for Akron schools; and
• Arbor Day presentations scheduled for fourth-grade classrooms only during the March-April 2008 time frame; sign-up information will be sent out in January 2008.

Syllabus Topics available:

• Enviroscape Series
• ABC's of Recycling Questionnaire Game
• Litter Bugs Me signed, Lucky the Ladybug.... 
• The Adventure of KAB Man...Mapping Akron's Litter 
• School Lunch Detective, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly 
• Oops! I forgot to read the label HHW
• Why Does Graffiti Hurt My School
• Landfills: The Big Cover Up

In the spring of 2008, presentations are limited to Arbor Day lessons available to all fourth grade students in the city March 3–April 25, 2008. The finale of these special lesson plans is the distribution of 4,000 seedlings to all public/private fourth grade students as part of the city's Arbor Day observance on April 25, 2008.

 

 

      Winners for the Arbor Day 2008 slogan contest!      

                                                                       

First Place:

Leggett Elementary School

Plant a tree, free O2 for you and me.

Tony Gosmer’s fourth grade class

 

Second Place:

Our Lady of the Elms

Go Green, Plant Trees, Save the Future, Let’s Do It!

Laurie Simm’s class

 

Third Place:

North Akron Catholic

Plant a tree for clean air to breathe.

Debra McKee’s class

                    

Pam Ray, Education Specialist for Keep Akron Beautiful, visited Akron Schools and delivered over 50 classroom presentations about the origin and importance of this national holiday.

The nonprofit agency, Keep Akron Beautiful thanks the FirstEnergy Foundation for the grant money to purchase 3,500 Austrian Pine seedlings to give to each public, charter and private fourth grade student in the city to commemorate Arbor Day. Bill Hahn, City of Akron Arborist, assisted the senior class of Our Lady of the Elms in packing the seedlings that were delivered by the Beautification Board volunteers to all fourth graders. We hope the students will learn to respect living things as they nurture their tree and watch it grow through the years in their own backyard!

Mission Statement of Keep Akron Beautiful:

Improving Akron's quality of life through beautification and responsible environmental management.

For more information this contest and others, please call 330-375-2116 and ask for the Education Specialist.

Education Days at Canal Park Stadium

Keep Akron Beautiful has been asked to join the fun down at Canal Park Stadium for the first day games of the Eastern League Akron Aeros. Last year 21,000 students, teachers and chaperons from Northeast Ohio were bussed into the ballpark for a game, lunch and hands-on educational activities.

Pam Ray, Education Specialist, manned a hands-on, Lucky the Ladybug litter-prevention learning station at Canal Park Stadium for Northeast Ohio students attending the four Education Days during the Akron Aeros morning games. These games were sponsored by Roadway Express. The field trip - for classes of all ages - accompanies a curriculum called Baseball IS Education of which our agency’s litter prevention component is prominent. The litter left at the stadium after these youth games was so awful the first year, that our agency was invited to do some hands-on education! Check out the online website:

www.akronaeros.com/education

Call KAB in April, 2008, to see how you can volunteer in May, 2008, at the Canal Park Stadium! 330-375-2116.....ask for Pam Ray, Education Specialist.