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A New Group of 6th Graders Gets involved in maintaining the Monarch Garden

9/20/2018

 
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Using out extra tutorial period provided by the unusual schedule this week, students volunteered to help clear the trails as a first step in weeding the garden. This is in preparation for the Monarch migration south.
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Cold-Stratification of Milkweed seeds continues - Day Two

1/31/2018

 
Our combined 6th and 7th Grade Sustainability tutorial classes came together again to complete the second step in the propagation of six types of milkweed seeds for the Monarch Heroes Garden. This step involves straining each seed out of the distilled water that it has been soaking in and placing it and two types of medium into bags, labeling the type and adding water to each. In all the team created 83 individual bags and returned them to the cold storage in the refrigerator.
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Cold-Stratification of Milkweed seeds Begins

1/30/2018

 
Following guidance from the National Wildlife Federation, a joint 6th and 7th Grade Sustainability tutorial class began by moving six types of milkweed seed into sterile jars to soak in the refrigerator for 24 hours.
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Polinator Plants have survived the snow, I think....

12/8/2017

 
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Snow and freezing temperatures in the Monarch garden

12/8/2017

 
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Eco-Schools - Team meeting

12/1/2017

 
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Our first combined enrichment meeting. None of the students assigned to us had been involved in the program before.  We decided to restart the program. and build IB Negotiated Agreements. Future meetings will involve development of negotiated agreements and research/task assignments. We discussed earning the green flag, from Eco-Schools and what that will require.

Students Do Citizen Science by Tagging Monarchs

10/27/2017

 
Students were able to catch and properly tag Monarchs to support scientists studying the species during the migration. After being trained indoors we went out to look for our "volunteers".
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Monarch Life Cycle Training and Water Keeping to help Monarchs and other species on campus

10/20/2017

 
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We split the enrichment classes to allow smaller groupings and flipped in the middle. Mrs. McDonald taught about the biology of the Monarch and Mr. Henington trained and certified water keepers outside. Water keepers refill the shallow puddles in the garden space year round. Students demonstrated mastery by filling the puddles from the rain cistern. Students choose to do this on their own. They might be late to class and were given a Water Keeper pass. 100% of the students in our citizen science training became certified.

Mrs. McDonald completes her first monarch tagging

10/18/2017

 
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We have had had up to six monarchs at a time reported in the garden. Mrs. McDonald = the 7th Grade Sustainability Science teacher uses a butterfly net to catch her first volunteer.
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Using her training from the National Wildlife Federation, she gently places the tag in the correct spot on the underside of the Monarch.

Co-Teaching Provides opportunities to reach More students

10/13/2017

 
Mrs. McDonald and I traded enrichment classes to allow my students to be exposed to the Eco-Schools USA "Pathways" this week while I took her enrichment out to work in the garden. Most of the students were not in our program last year so we are training students to work in the myriad tasks to maintain the Monarch Hero Garden as well as expand the biodiversity on campus. 
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Outside, we gathered wood to create natural shelters for the for the garden. Students learned how to be "Water Keepers" to refill the two puddles in the garden with rainwater from the school cistern. Another team of students volunteered to clear an old vegetable garden beds to make way for more monarch habitat.
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Water Keepers learning how to get water out of the cistern.
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Water Keepers adding water to the puddling areas.
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Volunteers refurbishing the old vegetable beds to convene them to habitat.
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The "Deadhead Team" of experienced gardeners moves through the garden collecting wildflower seeds.
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