Project Engage:Living our Lives for a Sustainable Future

04/22/2017

So proud of these students!

Their No Idling Campaign earned them a nomination from the Alberta Council for Environmental Education to travel to Edmonton as one of twenty schools chosen to show 150 ways schools show climate leadership in Alberta. They are showcasing their work today and attending leadership sessions at the Earth Day Celebration with the Minister of Education.

01/27/2017

Program sustainability is an indicator of the 'stickiness' of an initiative. This year, the holiday light campaign was requested by the students and then spread out to three other locations. Think of all the families who now know to recycle lights to recover the copper inside and reuse the rubber.
Students worked today using the lights as math manipulatives.
They each picked a question of their own to answer. Some wanted to know if they were all broken and plugged them in to test, then kept track. Some measured length, some counted bulbs. Some looked at patterns of colours on strings,and some kept track of how many colours and how many of each colour. Multiple classes across grade levels worked together. Next week, we'll recycle them and donate the $ to an environmental charity.

01/14/2017

The bin is filling up at Chinook Park!

01/05/2017

The holidays are over. Recycle your broken strings of lights at four locations in Calgary until January 24:
Chinook Park School, Henry Wise Wood School, Chief Justice Milvain School or the CBE Education Centre. Together, we can create a big impact!

12/05/2016

Here we go again! Spread the word so that we can increase the impact. If your CBE school would like to join us in diverting waste from the landfill and recycling holiday lights, click here to sign up: https://goo.gl/forms/vDhBm58QMzHoZoa03

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o6g-xg-CI0&feature=youtu.be

Our school is collecting and recycling broken holiday lights. Please help us recycle and save our planet.

09/15/2016

Happy September and welcome back to school! Part of Project Engage is learning to love and care for our local place. Our 3/4's were explorers, observers and scientists in the courtyard today. After a few sketching warm-ups, they each drew a tree as they see it, not as they think a tree should look.

09/08/2016

Welcome back to school! September is our one year anniversary with the metal bin. We celebrated by emptying our 8th bin, diverting 14, 860 lbs of metal. How is that for collective impact?

07/08/2016

Empowering student voice to create change is the essence of Project Engage. These signs are a result of the Eco Club's initiatives to care for our local place. Hard to argue with their message. We just got them at the end of school but look for them outside in September...

07/06/2016

One last hurrah to celebrate the work and support of the entire school community! This went up on the school board website.

http://www.cbe.ab.ca/news-centre/Pages/chinook-park-school-creates-community-through-music.aspx

The music was heard from over a block away as parents, students, and community members joined Chinook Park School in June to cap off a year-long celebration of sound and the school’s “Project Engage: Living our Lives for a Sustainable Future.” The event included pop up performances, a street festiv....

06/24/2016

The Grade Six class repurposed bottle caps. Over 50lbs of bottle caps over 5000 caps for a 8' x 12' art piece for the Farewell Legacy!! Thank you Lesley Taylor Wenzel for your artistic inspiration and all the work with the students!

06/19/2016

This week, we emptied our 7th metal bin since September bringing us to a total of 11 340 lbs of metal that we have recycled as a community. How's that for impact? Our students are taking it a step further and reminding the driver to stop idling and turn his truck off!

06/17/2016

We are thrilled to share the short documentary that the Calgary Board of Education created about our sound exploration. So proud of the work of students and teachers! Huge thanks to everyone involved.

http://players.brightcove.net/1366266428001/default_default/index.html?videoId=4939239420001