How green is your classroom? Your school? How would you rate the environmental quality in your school? Your classroom? What kinds of observations can you make to help answer these questions? In this investigation, you will be able to conduct activities that will enable you to answer some of these questions.
In this project, students (4 - college) study the factors contributing to the environmental quality of their classroom. If other teachers from your school, or different schools join you, you then can compare data across classrooms.
Project Green Classroom is broken down into six independent investigations that can be performed by different teams of students. The teams will investigate the following parameters of the classroom:
1. Weather
2. Air Quality
3. Dimensions
4. Population
5. Microorganisms
6. Trash
Environmental sustainability is the underlying premise of the notion of green. As such this project is designed to provide opportunities for students to think about the quality of the environment in which they study, and to expand that notion to the other structures besides the classroom, including the school building, and buildings in general.
You will find a link to Green Issues which provides additional resources for you and your students to explore. In particular, these links will take you beyond the Green Classroom to the Green School and beyond.