2007 Project Earth Environmental Education Grant Recipients

Congratulations to the seven schools to receive grants in 2007. These classrooms are using creative ways to study earth science by proposing hands-on learning opportunities that focus on issues such as watersheds and wetlands, air quality, renewable resources, energy conservation and the greening of schools.

• Lame Deer High School, Lame Deer, for “Waste Not, Want Not,” a composting program for the students’ school farm.
   
• Chief Joseph Middle School, Bozeman, for “Wild About Birds,” a field study unit about birds that incorporates the Flying WILD program from Project WILD and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.
   
• Canyon Creek School, Billings, for “Students and Tree Swallows,” a student project to restore nesting boxes at Yellowstone Conservation Education Center ponds.
   
• Cherry Valley Elementary School, Polson, for “Native Landscape,” a student project to study native plants while creating a backdrop for a walking path used in the school’s wellness and outdoor education program.
   
• Meadowlark Elementary School, Billings, for “Planting A Greenbelt,” a project to create a shady zone around the school’s new addition.
   
• Poly Drive Elementary School, Billings, for a third-grade field trip to the Living History Farm at the Museum of the Rockies.
   
• Butte Central High School, Butte, for “Riparian Revegetation and Watershed Stewardship,” a student project to restore the Middle Fork Rock Creek in cooperation with the Clark Fork Watershed Education Program and the U.S. Forest Service.