The Green Design Lab - A School Greening Guide

Help your school go beyond recycling! Bring sustainability to life! Project based learning. A National Standards Aligned Curriculum and Guide, The Green Design Lab (tm) is a blueprint for greening your school, allowing students to understand the connections between the resources used everyday and how they impact the local environment. Focusing on the physical school building, this Guide aims to help students and faculty realize on-site projects. It provides comprehensive hands-on learning opportunities such as rooftop gardens, building performance and energy efficiency,indoor and outdoor air quality, waste conservation, schoolyard habitats and non-toxic cleansers. Your school is the perfect setting for addressing relevant issues that affect the sustainability of your community. The objective is to facilitate learning that allows students and faculty to think of their school building as an organism connected to the local environment. For Grades 6-12.