Tag: Green Youth - Page 8
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Discovery and 3M Announce America's Next Top Young Scientist!
When Melissa Ray of Chesterfield, Missouri took home the title this week of America’s Top Young Scientist at the 3M/Discovery Young Scientist Challenge along with her $50,000 prize she joined an elite group of middle school science enthusiasts over the
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The Go Green Initiative's School of the Week: Old Settlers Elementary in Flower Mound, TX!
While the grammatically inclined may be wondering where the apostrophe went in the name of the Go Green Initiative's school of the week way back when it was founded, but the simple truth is that they're doing amazing things to help educate kids about
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Recycling with the Scrap Kins: Eco Friendly Website, Clothing Line, and Craft Jam for Kids
A new website for kids called the Scrap Kins has just launched. It's an innovative, fun site focused on getting kids to think about recycling via a cast of engaging, friendly monsters who live in a recycling center—the
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Bass Fishing Now a High School Sport
You may think it sounds crazy, but Illinois recently became the first state to decree that bass fishing is now a high school sport. And I'm wondering how high school coaches and athletic directors feel about it, because I can say with certainty that
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The Go Green Initiative's School of the Week: Groton Central School in Groton, NY!
When you hear that our Go Green Initiative School of the Week is located in Groton, NY and has a terrific lunch scrap recycling program called Rot-N-Groton, you know they’ve got both a sense of humor and a knack for getting students involved in cool
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College Students Find Semester in the Wild an Eye-Opening Experience
If you’ve been wondering where you can spend a semester of college sleeping among the trees and finding a way to discover how much you don’t need to buy to be happy, then St. Lawrence College in NY has just what you’ve been looking for, complete with
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The Go Green Initiative's School of the Week: Fox Middle School in Arnold, Missouri!
As students at Fox Middle School are taking the world by storm with the school's ongoing program dubbed "Storming the World with Character," they’re working hard to show their friends and neighbors how environmentally savvy they can be. And some of
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Inner City Youth Discover Jobs, Sustainability, Green Spaces Through Ingenious Program
When you consider the reality that so often there are limited supplies of fresh, organic foods available in parts of our inner cities, and that so often the kids living there see few positive career prospects in their future there’s no doubt that a
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Chicken Project Creates Controversy in NY Schools
While the chicken industry may leave much to be desired, there's an ecology program at Canandaigua Academy in Canandaigua, New York that's drawing fire for the manner in which it teaches kids about food production and its consequences ecologically
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10 Things I Can Do to Help My World a Great Book for Kids
If you’ve got a young child or a Pre-K classroom near you that could benefit from a cute book that helps even the smallest child consider simple ways that they can help to take better care of our world then there’s a good chance this book is just what
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Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge Kicks Off with Middle School Students Across U.S.
If you’ve been waiting for something great to make you stand up and find a way to change the world there’s no doubt that the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge is built for you. Launched in collaboration between the National Science Teachers
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Idbids a Hot New Eco-Learning Toy for Kids
With the school year just beginning and Christmas not too far away there's a great line of plush toys designed to help teach kids about the world around them that just may work well in the early elementary or PreK classroom or even as a stocking
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2008 Go Green Earth Summit Ready to Inspire, Educate
If you’re looking for the place where committed teachers, parents, administrators government officials and a whole host of other school related and not-so-school related personnel get together to compare best practices and stimulate their nerve endings
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Inner City Student Finds Fighting Air Pollution A Cause That Hits Home
Despite the fact that there's often so many things stacked against kids growing up in the inner-city, there's one young eco-hero that's defying the odds and making an incredible difference while helping to shed a bit of light on how successful
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Green School Fundraising with Carbon Offsets
While there may be no doubt that school fundraising of all angles is a standard of the educational system in America and beyond, there’s one product that you just may never heard of being used to help raise funds for schools; carbon offsets.
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McMansion Treehouse: Gigantic Two-story Kids Playhouse Spells the Death of the Small Footprint
That icon of American childhood, the treehouse, has succumbed to the McMansion phenomenon. The place of refuge that you may remember as little more than a haphazardly mounted platform or a rag rug thrown over a branch formed the character of many a
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Tree Free School Notebooks a Stylish Back-to-School Buy
With kids across America heading back to school there’s no better time to take a look at a unique line of notebooks that just may make a difference while helping them realize the importance of considering their paper usage on a daily basis as The Banana
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GM's LIVE GREEN Grant Winners Announced
After Kenny announced General Motors and Discovery Education’s call for entries into their 2008 LIVE GREEN Teacher Grant Awards, educator applicants from across the U.S. began sustainably swooning Discovery Education judges, submitting essays about how
