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School Recycling Projects in the WorksThe following schools submitted recycling project proposals, which are being supported through the Recycling Teacher Partner Program. Funds to support the recycling teaching partners are provided by Castle & Cooke Hawaii and the City & County of Honolulu. 2006-2008 Projects Waianae High School $500 Moanalua Elementary $640 ASSETS School $500 Moanalua High School $630 Voyager Charter School $510 St. Elizabeth School $400 Kipapa Elementary $503 CRDG Summer Programs (UH Lab School) $330 Waianae Intermediate School $461 Voyager Charter School $500 Voyager Charter School plans to conduct an Eco-Wear T-shirt remake workshop for two classes (total of 50 students). The students "re-make" new clothes from old, using discarded materials. Materials and instruction will be provided by Betty Gearen of The Green House. The students will also learn about the environmental impact of a single T-shirt -- the amount of resources and energy required for its manufacture. The students will also create a Power Point presentation documenting the entire process which will be presented at this year's Discover Recycling Fair, on the main multi-media screen. Dates have been set for August 25-27 (12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.). Sunset Beach Elementary $500 Aiea Intermediate School $650 Jefferson Elementary School $500 Aikahi Elementary School $500 Kapolei Elementary School $500 Forty first-grade students will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature to promote enthusiasm and the motivation needed to help keep our island clean. "Students will learn that everyone can help care for plants and animals and the island home we share by recycling and composting. Students will learn how easy it is to reduce, reuse, and recycle. The HNC staff will also share a "compost recipe" with the students... and end up with the skills and motivation needed to start a recycling project at school... each class will create a recycling box in the classroom for all students to recycle items from home and school." Kailua Elementary School $524 Kalihi Uka Elementary School $500 Over forty first-grade students will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature as well as some fun recycling and composting activities. Currently, Kalihi Uka Elementary "does not have any recycling bins," according to the coordinating teacher. "We will create bins for recyclable items - cardboard, paper, cans, bottles - in our classroom to help motivate and teach our students how to recycle and the importance of it. The students will make posters promoting recycling and what we are doing in our classrooms." The recycling program will help raise money for the classes involved. Lanakila Elementary School $500 All of Lanakila Elementary School's first-grade students (53) will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature as well as some fun recycling and composting activities. "We have the recycling container in our parking lot, but it is not used much [by the students]. We are going to promote recycling at our school through posters and bins for classrooms so that each grade level will begin recycling in their own classroom. The first grade students will make posters to encourage recycling; make bins (paper boxes) to be placed in each classroom; and help classrooms from other grades take their recycling to the bins." St. Andrew's Priory School $500 Thirty-five first-grade students will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature as well as some fun learning to reduce, reuse and recycle. The students will create recycling bins for the classrooms, make posters to promote recycling at school. "There will be a regular time (possibly monthly) when the cans and bottles will be turned in by the teachers (or parent volunteers) for cash. The students will choose an organization to whom the money collected will be donated." Moanalua Elementary School (two classes) $500/each All of Moanalua Elementary School's first-grade students (50) will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature as well as some fun recycling and composting activities. "Our school does not have a bin on campus and therefore recycling is not visible. We will make posters to put up around school to promote recycling and create bins for our class which we will deliver to the [closest City bin] throughout the week. We will encourage other classes to do the same... We will create flyers [for fellow students] and parents. We believe convenience will encourage more parents to recycle." Maemae Elementary School (three classes) $500 each/two classes (Hawaii Nature Center, $524/one class (Waikiki Worm) Fifty-eight third-grade students will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature as well as some fun recycling and composting activities. Following the workshop, the plan is to "set up recycling stations in each classroom; create containers for aluminum, glass and plastic; take items to bins in school weekly; set up a bin for recycling paper as our school does not do this. We will work with the City to get contacts/sites to set this up for our school." Approximately 300 students in grades K-5 will learn about recycling with worms, as 15 teachers will attend the worm workshop. "Students will be aware of alternatives to throwing away their food waste. Students will also learn that the vermicast from the worms is a rich "soil" that provides nutrients for plants. This cycle demonstrates the value of recycling." Ke Kula Kaiapuna O Nanakuli $545 Through knowledge gained during a teacher worm workshop, a total of 86 students (grades K-6) will learn to set up and care for their worm bins and colony of worms. They will also learn to harvest the vermicompost after the cycle is completed. The worm castings and worm leachate will be used in the school garden of native Hawaiian plants. Waimalu Elementary $524 All fifth-grade students will be involved (as well as their teachers) through classroom presentations by Waikiki Worm. "Students will be learning about ecosystems and the cycle of energy (producers, consumers, and decomposers). The worms will provide an excellent, engaging example. Our plan is to introduce vermicomposting to the students in class, involve them in the upkeep of the worm bins and then harvesting (2 times this school year), and finding a use for the rich vermicast. The community would then be given an opportunity to create their own worm bins to spread this recycling program to their homes." Mililani Mauka Elementary $524 All 125 second-graders (and all six teachers) "will learn about and engage in composting in their classrooms," via Waikiki Worm workshops. "They will use the vermicast to enhance the soil for their plants." The students will learn how to set up a mini compost bin so they can start their own at home. Mililani Waena Elementary (two classes) $500/each Fifty-four third-grade students will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature to promote enthusiasm and the motivation needed to help keep our island clean. "We recycle once a month (every last Wednesday) as a school (bottles and cans). [We plan to] make reminder posters to post around campus. After the workshop we will also provide recycle bins for our classroom and have students create their own posters to take home to remind their parents that recycling is next week." Montessori Community School $500 Students (ages six to nine) and teachers will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature to promote enthusiasm and the motivation needed to help keep our island clean. "We have started a worm compost program in our classes that has produced a quantity of vermicast. Our next goal is to create a native plants and edible garden using the vermicast while continuing to compost with the increasing worm populations." Kamiloiki Elementary School $500 Sixty-five students (ages six to seven) and teachers will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature as well as some fun recycling and composting activities. "We will create our own recycling bins in the classroom and send home flyers to the parents to have the kids bring their recyclable materials from home to the classroom. We would encourage our students to help with the school's ongoing recycling fundraiser program which is currently sponsored by the PTSA. They could help collect the recycling items from the bins, sort and get them ready to take to the recycling centers." Kalihi Kai Elementary School $500 One-hundred first-graders and their teachers will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature as well as some fun recycling and composting activities. "We will do lessons on reducing, reusing and recycling. We will create a paper and plastic bottle bin in our classroom since there is no recycling at our school." Red Hill Elementary School $500 About thirty-five first-graders and teachers will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature as well as some fun recycling and composting activities. "We will create our own recycling bins in the classroom. We will make posters to put up around the school to help motivate everyone to recycle. We will go over how it is important for everyone to recycle and take care of the environment." Pearl City Highlands Elementary School $500 About forty-five first-graders and three teachers will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature as well as some fun recycling and composting activities. "We will create our own recycling bins in the classroom and send home flyers to the parents to have the kids bring their recyclable materials from home to the classroom. We will propose to our principal to obtain a 'white bin' in our school. If we can't get the big white bin, our first grade class will take the recycling into one of the Redemption Centers." Island Pacific Academy $513 Initially, fifty-one sixth-grade students will be involved in the worm composting project (guided by Waikiki Worm). "At IPA, we would like to start a long-term plan for vermicomposting. Our goal is to have a school-wide vermicomposting project where all students in grades K-12 participate in the management of the project and contribute school and lunch waste to the compost." Heeia Elementary School $500 All third-grade students (60) and teachers will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature as well as some fun recycling and composting activities. "We already have the white bins and the green containers for bottles, cans and plastics. We are going to encourage our students to recycle paper, plastic and cans by making recycling bins/boxes in our classrooms. Students will then add it to the larger recycling bins. Students will create posters that show the importance of recycling and how it protects the environment. Posters will be displayed around the school." Hawaii Baptist Academy $500 Forty-eight third-graders and their teachers will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature as well as some fun recycling and composting activities. Students will develop an on-campus composting project using invasive seaweeds. Helemano Elementary School (two classes) $500/each All third-grade students (approximately 60) and teachers will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature to promote enthusiasm and the motivation needed to help keep our island clean. "After the workshop, each classroom will have recycling bins to collect items like bottles, cans, paper, newspaper and plastics. These items will be added to the school recycling project each month. We will brainstorm new ideas and projects to reuse and reduce, as well as create posters to promote the three R's." Punahou School ($500) Thirty-five ninth-grade students will be involved in various Green House workshops/activities. The students will learn to recycle paper into books, note cards, diaries and the like. They also will learn to make gift bags out of recycled paper. "The hope is this will spur students to look differently at ordinary materials in the home and neighborhood, and recycle them in ways they may not have thought of prior." UH Lab School ($500) Approximately 55 students will be participate in two Green House workshops. "Our department currently has beverage container recycling, and a compost I would like to add worm composting and engage the students in personal waste reduction by demonstrating how organic waste can be made into compost by feeding it to worms that eat food scraps, cardboard, newspaper and junk mail." Kamahele Homeschool Support Group ($500) Students in grades three through nine (40 total) will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature to promote enthusiasm and the motivation needed to help keep our island clean. "We all, as individual families, will recycle all paper, bottles and cans. Our diverse activities give us the unique ability to collect and educate other families to recycle. We will take our recyclables to neighborhood recycling bins, or schools in our districts using refunds to further our education on taking care of our Hawaiian environment." Waialua Elementary School (two classes) $500/each Forty-six third-grade students and their teachers will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature to promote enthusiasm and the motivation needed to help keep our island clean. "Students will be asked to actively recycle in the classroom for bottles, cans, plastic and paper. Using bins in each classroom, students from the recycling academy pick up the goods weekly. Students will draw and post recycling reminders to post around campus. In addition, they will create a newsletter to send home encouraging parents and families to recycle. The students will also write, act, and direct a public service announcement to be aired on the school broadcast." Waianae High School ($375) Approximately 90 students will participate in three Green House workshops. "The RTP will teach the students about the benefits of composting as a means to create natural soil and fertilizers out of organic waste. Students will be given an introduction to using compost for growing plants. Students will throughout the day set up three composting areas on campus for organic waste to be recycled into natural compost." Salt Lake Elementary School (two classes) $500/each Fifty third-grade students and their teachers will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature to promote enthusiasm and the motivation needed to help keep our island clean. "Students will create posters on the importance of recycling and protecting the wetlands. Students will collect/recycle aluminum, plastic, and papers at home and school. The students will also create a flyer to be given to parents." Aikahi Elementary School ($500) Sixty-five third-grade students will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature to promote enthusiasm and the motivation needed to help keep our island clean. "Presently at Aikahi we have a well established recycling project in place. Therefore, what we will focus our efforts on is motivating the school community to fully utilize the recycling opportunities available. We will do this by having the students create posters to put around school and flyers to be distributed to families encouraging the three R's - reduce, reuse and recycle. We will also possibly form a HI5 Community Drive as a fundraising effort to support our recycling project to involve the community." Queen Kaahumanu Elementary School ($493) Approximately 100 second-grade students will take part in a large-scale vermicomposting project, via Waikiki Worm. "Students, faculty, staff and administration will learn how to care for mini-worm bins as an alternative to disposing of organic wastes in landfills. Not only is vermicomposting good fun and good science, it solves a very real problem -- what to do about food wastes. It has viable applications for school waste management and recycling projects, gardening and agriculture, parental and community involvement... We hope that this will lead to school-wide conversations about the 3 R's -- Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling our wastes." Hanahauoli School ($615) Twenty-six sixth-graders will participate in two workshops offered by the Green House (solar power model car and paper making from plants) in addition to participating in several "Trash to Treasure" art projects throughout the school year. Kalani High School ($450) Eighty-five students enrolled in Japanese 1 will participate in the Green House's "Furoshiki: Alternative Gift Wrapping" workshop. Using reusable fabrics, they will learn how to avoid the wasteful practice of wrapping gifts with paper. This workshop will reinforce the purpose of the campus-wide classroom recycling program. Maunawili Elementary School ($500) All third-grade students will participate in the Hawaii Nature Center's "Introduction to Plants, Animals, and Healthy Habitats" workshop which will engage students in hands-on activities in nature to promote enthusiasm and the motivation needed to help keep our island clean. "Students at Maunawili Elementary already participate in recycling. All classrooms have a recycling box and classrooms collect old paper throughout the year. The conservation club comes once a week to collect the paper and takes it to the Community Recycling Bin." Waianae Elementary School ($429) Thirty-six fifth-graders will be engaged in a worm composting program as a component of a larger gardening program being developed at the school. Waikiki School ($450) The entire student body, from pre-Kindergarten to sixth-grade, will be invited to watch a performance of "It Starts with a Can." "The show will kick-off our full-fledged plan to encourage recycling at school and at home. We are currently recycling HI5's once a month, but we would like to amplify this effort once we receive a blue bin. The students will be asked to participate by making recycling signs and posters. Then each class will begin collecting HI5's in a school wide recycling drive that will include the neighboring communities as well." Aiea Intermediate School ($450) One-third of the eighth-grade population will watch "It Starts with a Can." "We plan on creating a recycling program at Aiea Intermediate. Currently, we have none in place. We would like to recycle cans and bottles throughout the year. We are then going to donate our bottles and cans to a charity (Kidney Clothes). Kailua Intermediate School ($524) One team of (140) seventh-grade students will be directly involved with a worm composting project introduced by Waikiki Worm. "Ultimately, Kailua Intermediate would like to use composting worms school wide to reduce, reuse, and recycle cafeteria waste, newspaper, and cardboard. With the assistance of Waikiki Worm, we will educate our faculty and staff through a teacher workshop and harvest party." Moanalua High School ($500) One hundred ninth-graders will participate in a composting/vermicomposting or paper making workshop. "The lessons will enhance student understanding of sustainability as they conduct their own research and media products in class. Students will eventually demonstrate civic action by holding a recycling fair or fundraiser at school." Kamaaina Kids Preschool at Enchanted Lake Elementary ($281) Twenty-five preschoolers will be involved with a Waikiki Worm workshop and vermicomposting project. "During the month of April we plan for recycling projects, journal entries, and other activities. My class this year seemed to be very interested in bugs and other critters. They enjoy hands-on experiences. I feel having Waikiki Worm come and visit our school would be a great asset to our curriculum. Some things we have planned for next month are classroom recycling bins, class discussions about how we can help the earth by happy and healthy." Castle High School ($524) The entire staff and faculty of Castle High were invited to a Waikiki Worm "Teacher's Workshop." "The workshop is an introduction to a possible recycling program that could be used at our school. We are sponsoring this workshop to increase the awareness of available recycling programs. We would like to prepare our teachers for the up and coming generation of students who will be familiar with vermicomposting." Kalihi Waena Elementary School ($450) Sixty-one students, in grades 3-5, will watch and participate in a "It Starts with a Can" performance. "We are planning to have another recycling drive for our school in May. Hopefully after watching the show, our students will turn in more [bottles, cans, newspaper, inkjet printer cartridges and cell phones] than our first drive we had. Hopefully the students will understand the concept of recycling and importance of recycling." St. Patrick School ($450) Approximately 70-100 students in grades K-6 will participate in "It Starts with a Can." The performance will complement an already existing (and robust) on-campus recycling program. "Our whole school, students and staff, have been involved in various recycling programs for the past several years. All soda and juice cans, as well as water and drink bottles, have been collected into a central recycling bin. The music teacher has even fashioned several into instruments. Inkjet, laser cartridges and cell phones have also been collected and recycled for the past four years at our schools." St. Elizabeth School ($450) Approximately 260 students, grades K-8, will participate in a campus-wide recycling initiative. One component of the program will be an "It Starts with a Can" performance. "We currently have an on-going recycling program at our school for white paper, aluminum cans and plastic bottles... The Student Council will be making posters and awareness signs to educate the student body about recycling at St. Elizabeth School. Additionally, we are running a HI5 Recycling Fundraising Drive throughout the month of April and encouraging families to bring in their recyclables as a donation to our school." Lanakila Elementary School ($450) "It Starts with a Can" will be performed to supplement the recycling program initiated by the students. "This year we began a recycling project in the first grade classrooms. Our goal was to get all grade levels at Lanakila to recycle paper on a daily basis. The first-grade students gathered recycled paper boxes from the office. These boxes were then painted by first-graders to promote recycling. When the boxes were finished, one was delivered to every classroom on campus. The first-grade students read a brief statement about the importance of recycling, to every classroom." Kaimuki Christian School ($450) Kaimuki Christian School will kick-off this month's Earth Day celebration with an "It Starts with a Can" performance. All 300 students are involved with a monthly recycling drive. "They are saving their bottles and cans and see how much they accumulate in a month. They know the difference of sorting plastic, metal, and glass. They are working together, younger and older, side by side, helping each other. Some bag, some count, some take off the caps, others pick up the trash. By the end of the year, they are doing most of it themselves." Hokulani Elementary School (Waikiki Worm "Pipeline" Worm System pilot school) CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS OF THE PIPELINE
SYSTEM BLESSING. Article about Hokulani's vermicomposting project: "Fun with Worms," Honolulu Advertiser, (01/19/09) Displayed for the first time at the 2008 Discover Recycling Fair, and subsequently delivered to Hokulani Elementary School for installation, this project is the culmination of classroom worm projects that yielded enough worms to move to an all-school system. According to Laurie Yoshinaga, fourth-grade teacher, "the Pipeline will enable us to vermicompost all the lunchroom food waste and a portion of office paper and cardboard generated daily. We are the first school to recycle all our organic waste on campus and will be working to develop procedures and management strategies that will fully engage the students and that will work efficiently and effective over time. We are aware of our status as a pilot school, and will welcome other interested schools to see our bin and how we manage it. We hope many will see it!" The following schools have also participated in Waikiki Worm workshops and set up on-campus vermicomposting projects: Halu Lokahi Public Charter School ($509); Niu Valley Middle School ($524); St. Theresa School ($524); Manana Elementary School ($524); Iroquois Point Elementary School ($168); Central Union Church Preschool ($524); Sunshine School ($314); Windward Nazarene Academy ($508); and Kuhio Elementary School ($511). Waikiki School – Waikiki Worm $400.00 Eighty four first-graders and 4 teachers at Waikiki School will be establishing a worm composting system to limit the school’s food waste stream, with lessons form Waikiki Worm Company. Parents, teachers and cafeteria staff were invited to the worm bin lessons and to participate in the regular feeding of the worms. The compost will be used to sustain the school’s active gardens and fruit tree orchard. Puohala Elementary School – The Greenhouse $500.00 Forty nine students from grades 2 and 3, teachers, parents and custodians are invited to participate in worm bin and composting classes provided by The Greenhouse. The students will use the “enhance and amend our school garden beds and teach about recycling and sustainability.” “The students will be…directly responsible and active with the garden, the worms, and the composting process.” Navy Hale Keiki – It Starts With A Can $450.00 The whole school has been invited to the performance of “It Starts With A Can” to “reinforce concepts…teach them something new to recapture their attentions, and motivate them to recycle and put trash in its rightful place long after the school year has ended.” Students from preschool through third grade have the opportunity to “participate with recycling collection and sorting of HI-5 containers on designated drop off dates.” Their recycling program is sustained from school year to school year. Olivet Baptist Preschool – Waikiki Worm $500.00 Two classrooms including 28 students and 4 teachers will be composting with worms, feeding them leftover lunch scraps which were previously thrown away, facilitated by lessons with Waikiki Worm Company. Parents were also invited to participate in worm harvesting sessions. Jefferson Elementary – Waikiki Worm $460.00 Sixty three students and their teacher will participate in worm bin lunch waste composting project and use vermicast for the school’s native plant gardens. They plan to collect data on the rate of decomposition of different materials in the bin, and write a proposal to the school administration in regards to what they have learned. This worm bin project is an extension of their current composting project. Waialae Public Charter School – The Greenhouse $300 Waialae 5th graders and their teacher will take an Eco-T’s class from The Greenhouse to facilitate their eco-service learning project of re-making T-shirts to donate to “shelters for children in need.” They also plan to share the skills and information they receive from the workshop with other students and teachers at their school. This projects aims to keep hundreds of T shirts out of the waste stream. Moanalua High School –The Greenhouse $500 Over three hundred students will be impacted through the “Eco-Awareness” and “Papermaking from Plants” classes with the Greenhouse. They are using these classes to facilitate their Earth Day Festival and 2-3 week on-campus recycling campaign. They also plan to actively support “sustainable legislation.” St. Elizabeth School – The Greenhouse $500 The entire school K-8th grade (246 students),teachers, staff,administrators, church pastor, and school families will be impacted by the “Garbology” and “Composting II” classes offered by the The Greenhouse. The students will conduct a waste-audit, and then, plan and implement a composting food waste system to enhance their current mixed-materials recycling program. Kaneohe Elementary School – The Greenhouse $500 One hundred second graders, 4 teachers, 4 custodians, the school principal, cafeteria manager and workers, and parents and grandparents of the students will work together to implement organic waste composting and worm habitats at their school, using recycled materials to build the bins. The second grade classes will be responsible for sustaining the systems on a larger scale, as well as for mentoring incoming second graders for the following year. These classes are the start of a larger-scale project they envision to manage all of the organic waste at the school. Hawaii Baptist Academy – It Starts With A Can $450 The entire School has been invited to the performance, initiated by the efforts of the Generation Green Group, whose mission is to promote the 3 R’s (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) and” to be good stewards to all of God’s creations.” Their recycling efforts have included writing and filming a recycling infomercial and entering and winning in their category of the OPALA Recycled Sculpture Contest. They plan to sustain their efforts from school-year to school-year. Mililani Mauka Elementary School – It Starts With A Can $450 The entire school will be attending the performance of “It Starts With A Can.” The students at Mililani Mauka recycle plastic, glass, aluminum and paper during ongoing recycling drives. This performance will “motivate and educate the students on the importance of recycling, and how we all can make a difference.” Aiea Elementary School – Waikiki Worm $500 With the 5th graders heading up efforts, this project will involve students, teachers, faculty/staff, custodians, and community members. They plan to use the recyclable waste from their cafeteria to feed the composting worms. The vermicast and compost tea produced will be used to enrich their garden sites. Through this project, they hope to establish a large pipeline-type system to manage cafeteria food waste. Waikiki Worm Company will provide training, supplies, ongoing guidance, and support. CLICK HERE TO SEE A SHORT MOVIE ABOUT THIS PROJECT. Kailua Intermediate School – It Starts With A Can $450 This performance will be part of the school’s Spring Fest, themed “Environmentally responsible – Go Green.” The entire student body of 7th and 8th graders will participate. The Spring Fest will include “using Art to Recycle, Reducing and Reusing Resources.” Students participate in worm-bin recycling and active mixed-material recycling drives throughout the year. Hale Kula Elementary School – It Starts With A Can $450 One hundred-sixty second-graders and their teachers will watch the performance of “It Starts With A Can,” which will “help clarify, review, reinforce, and expand students’ understanding of the importance of the 3 R’s – Reduce, reuse, recycle.” The students “have a ‘trash’ project—making something useful out of trash.” The school also has an ongoing cans and plastics recycling program. Keolu Elemenatary School – It Starts With A Can $450 The entire student body and their teachers will see the performance of “It Starts With A Can.” Third grade students, teachers and custodians are participating in a lunch waste composting program throughout the school year. They plan to sustain this program from year to year. Sunshine School – Waikiki Worm $167.54 This workshop was a follow-up to their initial worm program including harvesting and purchase of additional worms. Sunshine School is “expanding its initial program to include other classes. Eventually after enough worms are harvested, parents will be taking some for home use.” “The children assist with the feeding and maintenance of worm bins. They are taught the importance of recycling and composting. They will use the vermicast to fertilize flower/vegetable gardens at school.” Waialua High and Intermediate School – Waikiki Worm $500 "Participating (8th and 9th grade) science classes in collaboration with on-campus organic gardening clubs and Waikiki Worm will begin a campus composting program to set up a vermicasting system and introduce it to the school… In six months Waikiki Worms will return to Wailalua to harvest worms." They will be using campus food waste to feed the worms. This project will be integrated into classroom curriculum and will be “expanded to include After-School Class, Community Action Project, and Senior Community Service for 12th grade requirements for graduation. ” Moanalua Elementary – The Greenhouse $500.00 About one hundred 3rd grade students, parent volunteers, teachers and administration will participate in a papermaking class to inspire students and administration to begin a “paper recycling initiative.” They plan to do a small-scale “waste audit” from one classroom to show the amount of recyclable materials being generated in the typical classroom. Paper will be collected in individual classrooms in re-used boxes, and picked up every Wednesday to be taken to the community recycling bin at a nearby location. Leihoku Elementary – It Starts With A Can $450.00 One hundred eighteen 2nd grade students will see the ISWAC performance, “a good culminating activity… before the closing of the year.” Students, teachers, faculty and community were involved in a phone book drive, and “ an informational piece on how to reduce, reuse, recycle,” as well as participating in a school rubbish pick-up and recycled art-making activities. Kahaluu Elementary – It Starts with A Can $450.00 The entire school community will have the opportunity to see the ISWAC performance, actively “engaging students in learning more about the positive impact of recycling in their own school and community, and will increase their motivation and ability to recycle on their own at home.” The school has begun “a paper recycling program…in which every class and room has a box for recycling of paper materials. The boxes are emptied weekly, and collected paper products are brought to a nearby recycling bin…” Additionally, they have wheeled recycling carts “placed strategically on campus for plastic and aluminum” recyclables. Linapuni Elementary – It Starts With A Can $450.00 Students and teachers school-wide will be invited to the performance of ISWAC as reinforcement and a closing activity for their recycling project. The school participated in a school-wide four-week HI-5 recycling drive. Students created posters and flyers, and used banners and colorful recycling boxes placed around the school, to encourage recycling and participation in the recycling drive. A four-week unit plan based upon General Learner Outcome #2 “Community Contributor,” using song, dance, videos and books, brought awareness and education to students. Pali Preschool - It Starts With A Can $450 Students, staff, families, and community at Pali Preschool will hold a HI-5 Recycling Drive. Students will create poster and flyers to post around school to inform other families about the recycling drive. The performance will serve as a “fun, informative introduction on the importance of recycling...” Hongwanji Mission School - Waikiki Worm $500 The 4th grade class will begin their sustainability project by creating and caring for bins of worms, feeding them cafeteria and paper waste from the school. The vermicast will be used to fertilize the current aloha garden and future gardens. The goal of the project is to install a large-scale Pipeline worm system and to create a greener campus with a series of interactive teaching gardens. This project will involve the entire school with fourth graders as team leaders. CLICK HERE TO SEE A SHORT MOVIE ABOUT THIS PROJECT. Waianae High School - Waikiki Worm Company $500 Twenty six juniors from Waianae HS will establish and maintain 5 worm bins using waste from the school café as well as from the food service program. Students will keep daily logs using observations and collecting data on the progress of the worm bins. Selected students will conduct at least one community presentation on vermicasting. Hoaloha Kai Montessori School - Waikiki Worm Company $500 All three classes at the school (30 students), staff, and community will participate in a vermicasting project with worm bins. Younger students will learn to separate their garbage while older students will care for the worm bins. Students’ overall goals include “no landfill” and helping “struggling plants” in their classrooms by “feeding them vermicast.” Our Redeemer Lutheran School - Waikiki Worm Company $500 Second grade and 5th grade students will learn the basics of vermicomposting and set up a 10-gallon classroom bin, recycling lunchroom food and classroom paper waste. They plan to sustain the project by sharing knowledge and worms with other grades as the worm colonies grow. Vermicast will be given to the custodian for landscaping work and other classrooms for plant growth projects. Ala Wai Elementary - Waikiki Worm Company $500 Twenty five 2nd grade students will learn the principles and practices of vermicomposting. The students will create and populate worm bins and care for the worms for 5-6 months, feeding them their lunchroom waste and shredded paper waste. They will weigh, measure, describe and document the process in a food log. The students will use the vermicast to fertilize their classroom garden plot that they grow vegetables in during the school year. Kamilioki Elementary School - Hawaii Nature Center $500 Sixty 1st grade students will be involved in creating and distributing posters and flyers to promote the school’s ongoing recycling efforts. In class they will “set up recycling containers for cans and plastic bottles to encourage students to make a difference and get involved by recycling.” They hope that “this project will result in a positive attitudinal change both at school and in the community and create lifelong partners in caring for our environment.” St. Michael School - It Starts With A Can $500 All 250 students at school participated in the performance of “It Starts with A Can” to help motivate their ongoing HI-5 collection program. Recycling cans are available on campus and twice per month, 5th and 6th grade students sort and bag the cans and bottles for the school. By 2010, they hope to have recycling bins for office paper in all the classrooms. Waikele Elementary School - It Starts With A Can $450 This year the second graders will be “focusing on recycling and its impact on protecting our earth.” Students will work on setting up a recycling mini center as a grade level. They will also help promote awareness as they share out their learning school-wide. The long term goal will be to set up a school-wide recycling program at their campus that is sustainable. The performance “will provide a learning experience that will help to build background knowledge about recycling and the importance of taking care of our earth. The performance will also serve as an engagement activity to spark interest in our unit and introduce our project.” Sacred Hearts Academy - Waikiki Worm Company $157.07 The Hawaiian language class, gardening club, and Code Earth students grades 7-12, parents, and community will be involved in the class given by Waikiki Worm. Students from Hawaiian language class will maintain a compost bin and garden with help from the gardening club and Code Earth, the environmental club on campus. Results from the project include reducing organic waste, teaching the benefits of composting and get students into the habit of composting their organic waste. Hawaii Baptist Academy - Waikiki Worm Company $500 Thirty five students from the Generation Green recycling club will experience a hands-on vermicomposting worm-breeding project. Students will learn how to create and populate worm bins and learn the principles and practices of vermicomposting. After 5-6 months, students will participate in harvesting more worms and a batch of vermicast. Students plan to present instruction and a demonstration. The vermicast will be used fertilize bedding around campus and grow their own plants. Solomon Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company $500 Under the guidance of their teacher and educational assistant, a group of 24 5th graders will be actively engaged in caring for and monitoring one bin of worms. They will collect and use campus cafeteria food waste and office paper scraps to feed the worms and will observe and analyze the vermicomposting ecosystem. As the students become adept at caring for the worms, they will mentor other students (including next year’s 5th graders) into the project. As worm colony size increases, more bins will be added and more campus food and office paper will be processed. CLICK
HERE FOR PHOTOS. Trinity Christian School - Hawaii Nature Center $500 First graders, about 40, will collect HI-5 recyclables from campus each Friday. Recycling bins have been set up in several areas around the campus. One 1st grade family each week will volunteer to take the recycling to a recycling center each week. First-graders will also learn this year about recycling biodegradable waste using worms. They will use the worm compost to fertilize a class garden. The entire school community will be involved in recycling efforts. These projects will be sustained from year to year. Island Pacific Academy - Waikiki Worm Company $500 “Our project is the next step in our student government’s efforts to make our school a greener and more environmentally friendly place. We currently have a HI-5 and paper recycling program in place… By implementation of a vermicomposting project at our school, we can further educate about the need to be cognizant of waste in all facets of their lives, not just when they drink soda or bottled water. We will start with a single worm bin and use this to inspire students to think beyond the usual solution involving recycling. This project will hopefully put us on our way to ultimately becoming a zero-waste school.” Waipahu High School - Waikiki Worm Company $500 Thirty one students, teachers, educational assistants and skills trainers will work in a fully self-contained special education setting to implement a vermicomposting project starting with one worm bin. They plan to continue the project through following school years. In addition, they will work on a proposal for their “school community to get them to possibly implement their own recycling/compost program.” Aina Haina Elementary School - The Green House $500 Twenty five students from the “HEARTS” Time Community Service group (15 Student Council members and 10 recycling group members) will establish and maintain a worm vermicomposting colony. They will take the “Eco-Awareness” class to explore their connection to nature and the link between individual actions and their global effect. Students will communicate the learning process with interested classrooms and the School Community Council. The “overall goal is to change the way we deal with waste at Aina Haina School. By documenting and communicating our learning with others, we hope to work with more grade levels so that they can recycle their waste.” Waimanalo Elementary and Intermediate School - Eve’s Trees $500 “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! Our goal is to have students & teachers think twice before discarding paper into the trash. Instead, they will recycle paper by placing them into a recycling paper box in their classroom. The first & second grade classes will collect the recycled paper and place them in the recycling bin located on our campus. This will be done weekly, and preschool to grade 2 and the computer lab will receive this service. We hope to involve the other grades as our efforts take off. Posters and a video will be created to inform the school community.” “Students will be creating a 3-minute video that explains how we can all make a difference by reducing, reusing and recycling paper. They will also do skits to demonstrate how each classroom can start a paper recycling drive and package the white and colored papers for the bin collection.” “Approximately 200 students in preschool to 2nd grade and 200 students from upper elementary and middle school who use the computer lab” will be involved. Manana Elementary School - Kokua Hawaii Foundation $500 “Manana Elementary School will participate in a school-wide recycling collection program. Each classroom, office, and building will be equipped with recycling bins for paper, cardboard, plastic, bottles, and cans. The recyclables will be collected and picked up on a monthly basis to generate funds for the school.” “The entire Manana Elementary School will be involved: 406 students in preschool to 6th grade ranging in ages from 3-12 years old, office staff, librarian, administrators, custodians, cafeteria staff, parents, and community members.” Webling Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company $500 “Students will learn about and care for their worms. While doing so, they will also learn the principles and practice of vermicomposting. The resulting vermicast will then be used in their lo`i kalo or taro patch, another year-long project in which the students plant, care for, and harvest heir own taro.” Seventy six grade four students, 3 grade four teachers, custodians, school principal, counselor, and parents will be involved in the project. Niu Valley Middle School - Kokua Hawaii Foundation $500 “The Niu Valley Leadership class plans to maintain a classroom recycling program for paper in each classroom. The students of the class will collect the recycle paper bin (provided by Kokua Hawaii) each month. They will transfer the paper collected in the classrooms to the large rolling bins provided by the City and County. Kokua Hawaii will work with an outside organization to coordinate the pickup of the large rolling bins. The organization will transport the bins and empty the paper into a nearby school’s large (Community Recycling) Bin.” Kahaluu Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company $500 “Soil created from vermicomposting will support our new school garden. Starter kits from Waikiki Worm Company will help our students understand the importance of reducing our waste, reusing what we have, and recycling items rather than dumping it in landfills. Realizing how easy it is to create a self-sustaining cycle that hopefully they can do at home. This project will allow our students to become stewards of the land and learn how to take care of it. In addition to the 3 R’s, math, science, health, economics, and language arts will be integrated. If we take care of the land, it will take care of us.” “Students will be engaged through hands-on activities about vermicomposting, creating bins, collecting lunch waste, spreading it out in the bins, advocating to the school and community, and maintaining bins.” Thirty-two students, ages 8-9, will be involved initially, eventually getting the whole school involved. Waikele Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company $50 Eighty eight kindergarten students will participate in a year-and -a -half project, which incorporates two introductory sessions with Waikiki Worm, and hope to eventually evolve the project school-wide with a Pipeline worm system. They plan to use lunch waste and shredded paper office paper to feed the worms, and use the vermicast that will be produced for a school vegetable garden. At the end of the project, they plan to either give worms to students’ families to start their own worm colonies, or give vermicast to students’ families for use in their home gardens. Maemae Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company $500 Maemae is the first school to work with a small Pipeline worm system, aka POP system, inside the classroom. This project is an expansion of previous worm projects on campus that have been taking place since 2007. One hundred fifth grade students will primarily be involved in this vermicomposting project, which addresses the Hawaii St. Patrick School - Kokua Hawaii Foundation $500 Three hundred forty-one students, teachers, maintenance staff, and office staff at St. Patrick School are starting a school-wide (K-8) recycling program, with orientation, coordination and training being provided through the KHF 3R’s Program. The school will now be focusing on collection of paper in every classroom, while continuing their efforts to collect and recycle other recyclable materials such as plastic bottles and cans. KCAA Preschools - Laura Morgan -The Green House $500 The entire preschool, including 70 students, plus teachers, administration, staff and parents will be involved in a worm composting project. The recycling project “is to utilize the students’ daily lunch wastes, classroom and administration’s biodegradable materials with the aid of worms into compost. The newly formed compost will be integrated into the soil creating a sustainable living garden for the students to utilize as an outdoor classroom as well as a sustainable recycling activity for the preschool and community.” Wheeler Middle School - Waikiki Worm Company - $255.50 + $100 Recycled Products Twenty five students are engaging in a vermicomposting project on their campus. “…the worms will illustrate the interaction and dependence of organisms.” They use the “black gold” to fertilize their recently built native Hawaiian and vegetable garden. Wheeler Middle School also participates in a school-wide recycling program, collecting paper and HI-5 plastics and aluminum cans. CLICK HERE TO SEE VIDEO OF THE PROJECT. (MP4 format - use QuickTime player.) Kapunahala Elementary School - Kokua Hawaii Foundation 3 R’s $500 Kapunahala staff and students will implement “a school-wide recycling program as a service learning project for grade 5 students. (They will) integrate the importance of Go Green and sustainability where the 3 R’s, reuse, reuse, reuse, recycle becomes a part of our daily lifestyle. Students will also be able to practice the General Leader Outcome Community Contributor, assuming this leadership responsibility on behalf of the entire student body.” They will be collecting paper, bottles, and cans. Waianae Intermediate School - Waikiki Worm Company - $523.56 + 50 Opala IQ Books “In order to emphasize the role of decomposers in a garden ecosystem, we opted to implement a vermicomposting project. Students will learn about decomposition and interdependence and establish an environmentally friendly composting program on our campus for all community stakeholders to learn from.” About 50 7th grade students will implement the program. Waikiki Elementary School - Hawaii Nature Center - $500.00 Waikiki Elementary School is piloting The Green House’s “Green Ribbons Program” to implement a school-wide “achieve zero-waste” program. As part of this program, they will create 4 resource centers: compostable, recyclable, reusable and refusable. Second graders will take a field trip to the Hawaii Nature Center which will provide them with needed education about composting to help create the 4th “ribbon” of composting aspect of their plan. They plan to compost food waste from their cafeteria on a large scale, and use the compost to amend the soil in their Waikiki School Garden Program Food Farm! Jefferson Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company - $523.56 Fourth grade students will participate in a worm harvest of two worm bins that had been previously established. They will be expanding their worm project to include 2 more bins so that they can recycle even more food waste from their school. One teacher, VP and custodians will assist in the harvest. Hokulani Elementary School - $100 Recycled Products First graders have implemented a classroom HI-5 recycling drive, donating proceeds to “a needy zoo animal.” The recycled products will be used a prizes and rewards. CLICK HERE TO VIEW A SUMMARY LETTER FROM TEACHER. Waianae Elementary School - The Green House and Hawaii Nature Center - $500 + $100 Recycled Products + 100 Opala IQ Books All fifth grade students will complete the “Opala Kuleana” pledge from The City and County’s “The Opala IQ Book,” “making a personal commitment to reduce the amount of waste they send to the landfill. This pledge will help encourage students to utilize the recycling facilities we have on campus that collect paper, corrugated cardboard, bottles and cans.” Students will also set up a compost pile and collect their lunch waste from the cafeteria. First grade students will hold a bottle and can drive to increase the amount of recyclable being recycled at school. Funds generated by the bottle and can drive will be used to purchase garbage cans and recycle bins to put on the recess field.” The RTP’s they have chosen will help facilitate these efforts. 2010/2011 School Year Projects Huakailani School - The Green House - $500.00 CLICK HERE TO SEE VIDEO OF THE PROJECT. Pearl City Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company - $500.00 CLICK HERE and HERE TO VIEW STUDENT POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS. Waikele Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company - $500.00 + $99.75 recycled Products CLICK HERE TO SEE STUDENTS' REFLECTIONS ON THE WORM PROJECT. Keiki O Ka Aina Preschool - Waikiki Worm Company - $500.00 Trinity Christian School - Waikiki Worm Company - $500.00 Pali Preschool - The Green House - $500.00 Noelani Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company - $500.00 Ewa Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company - $500.00 + $100 recycled Products CLICK HERE TO SEE THE BOOK THEY CREATED: VERMICASTING TO PLANTING Kamaile Academy School - Waikiki Worm Company - $500.00 Pearl City Highlands Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company - $500.00 Huakailani School - The Green House - $500.00 Trinity Lutheran School - Waikiki Worm Company - $500.00 Kapunahala Elementary School -Waikiki Worm Company - $500.00 Hawaii Baptist Academy - Waikiki Worm Company - $500.00 Honolulu Waldorf School - Waikiki Worm Company - $490.00 Makaha Elementary School - Kokua Hawaii Foundation 3 R’s- $500.00 Kalani High School - Kokua Hawaii Foundation 3 R’s- $500.00 Seagull Schools at Kapolei - Waikiki Worm Company - $500.00 CLICK HERE TO SEE DRAWINGS BY THE STUDENTS. Waianae Elementary School- Waikiki Worm Company - $500.00 University Laboratory School - Waikiki Worm Company - $500.00 Assets School - The Green House - $375.00 Jefferson Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company- $500.00 Lunalilo Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company - $500.00 CLICK HERE TO SEE THEIR BLOG Blessed Marianne Cope Preschool - St. Francis School - Waikiki Worm Company - $500.00 Palolo Elementary School - The Green House Green Ribbons- $500.00 + $100 of Recycled Products Waimalu Elementary School - The Green House - $375.00 Kaala Elementary School - Kokua Hawaii Foundation - $500 Kapolei High School - Kokua Hawaii Foundation - $500 + Recycled Products Waipahu Elementary School - Waikiki Worm - $500 CLICK HERE TO VIEW A MOVIE ABOUT THEIR GARDENING AND WORM PROJECT. Hickam Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company - $500 + $100 Recycled Products Ewa Makai Middle School - Waikiki Worm Company - $500 + $100 Recycled Products CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS. Linapuni Elementary School - Recycled Products - $100 Academy of the Pacific - The Green House - $125 Saint Louis School - Kokua Hawaii Foundation - $500 Ke Kula o Samuel M. Kamakau Charter School - The Green House - $125 KCAA Atherton Preschool - Waikiki Worm Company - $489 Holy Nativity School - Waikiki Worm Company - $500 Moanalua Elementay School - Waikiki Worm Company - $500 Montessori Community School - Waikiki Worm Company - $500 Trinity Christian School - Waikiki Worm Company - $500 Hongwanji Mission School - Waikiki Worm Company - $445 Waipahu High School - Waikiki Worm Company - $500 2011/2012 School Year Projects Loveland Academy - The Green House - Worm Composting I and II Pohakea Elementary - The Green House - Worm Composting I and II Saint Mark Lutheran School - The Green House - Worm Composting I and II Island Pacific Academy - Kokua Hawaii Foundation - 3R’s Program Keoneula Elementary School - Kokua Hawaii Foundation - 3R’s Program Makaha Elementary School - Kokua Hawaii Foundation - 3R’s Program Manana Elementary School - Kokua Hawaii Foundation - 3R’s Program Pearl City High School - Kokua Hawaii Foundation - 3R’s Program Aiea Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company - Worm Expansion Project Alvah Scott Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company - Worm Expansion Project - ($1320 - broad-scope project) Ewa Makai Middle School - Waikiki Worm Company - Worm Expansion Project ($500 + $100 Recycled Products) Hawaii Baptist Academy - Waikiki Worm Company - Worm Expansion Project ($310 + $87 Recycled Products) Jefferson Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company -Worm Expansion Project ($500) Kapalama Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company - Classroom Worm Start-up Project - ($500) Keoneula Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company -Classroom Worm Kuhio Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company - Worm Expansion Project ($500 + $99.85 Recycled Products) Lincoln Elementary - Waikiki Worm Company - Classroom Worm Start-up Project ($500 + $100 Recycled Products) Lunalilo Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company - Worm Expansion Project ($500 + $96.50 Recycled Products) Miliilani Waena Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company - Classroom Mokulele Elementary School - Waikiki Worm Company -Classroom Start-up Project - ($500) Stevenson Middle School - Waikiki Worm Company - Worm Expansion Project ($330) Academy of the Pacific - The Green House - Green Ribbons Program |
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