BAEER Fair 2013!

What a great day at the BAEER Fair!  LEAF 2013 students both hosted a table and lead a workshop at the Bay Area Environmental Education Fair (baeerfair.org) this year.  For their workshop, PHS students lead a group of participants in a recycled art project.  They had two tables of trash, one collected from a home in SF, and one collected from a home in Marin.  They lead the two groups in the creation of "trash bears".  All of the participants became very involved in their bears, you can see photos of the garden bear and the space bear below.   The students did a great job leading this project.  Everyone had a great time, and it was amazing to see the trash that could become art in a mere 45 minutes!

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Edison Charter Academy students also joined us at the BAEER Fair and presented the educational videos that they have created which teach students of all ages how to dispose of their trash properly, and why it is important.  It was great to see their finished project and hard work!

Both groups spent time at our LEAF booth, teaching the public about LEAF Academy.

Special thanks to all students who participated!

PHS LEAF Project!

PHS’ LEAF 2012 Team’s first few weeks of 2013 have been very exciting and productive. Our young PHS LEAF leaders have inspired PHS 4^th and 5^th graders to get to know their waste. They accomplished this through an intensive analysis of the waste students produce during their day-to-day learning at PHS. Students have loved learning to sort and catalog their garbage, recycling and composting.  Our students’ favorite parts of this project have been applying their math skills and learning how to use the balance beams from the PHS science lab to measure the mass of the waste they’ve produced. Young PHS mathematicians/environmentalists have done a precise and accurate job of measuring, recording and organizing project data. 

On Friday, January 18, 2013 our PHS LEAF students collaborated with Recology Artists in Residence and PHS teachers to support PHS’ 4^th and 5^th graders as they transformed their trash into art. It was an exciting, creative and collaborative process that embodied the values and mission of the PHS community. The results were fantastic!

Please visit YouTube to enjoy the ARTT (Awareness Reduction Transforming Trash) Project kickoff video and the video documenting Friday afternoon’s creative process and the transformation of PHS school trash into artistic representations of the PHS mascot!

http://youtu.be/RMPulXqYBDU

http://youtu.be/_dejModu2zQ


Here is a link to more photos documenting much of the learning process and incredible art projects!

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