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Day 67, Margeaux Montgomery, Teacher, Twelve Mile Coulee School

6/15/2014

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This year, we explored the relationship that humans have with water and our relationship with the rivers that run through Calgary. We asked important questions about how water shapes us and how we shape water, an interconnected relationship that requires serious, thoughtful, consideration, and time to study the topic in depth. The more we learned about the rivers, the more compelling they became. We have become hermeneutic scholars around the rivers’ origin, landforms, myths, civilizations, celebrations, conflicts, disasters and their deep meaning to us and our personal identities as beings living in Calgary at this time in history. The rivers have become a part of us, just as we have become part of the rivers. Everything is the same issue.

A reflection from Zach captures a lasting impression:

Learning about the river changed my thinking about water. I find myself thinking hard about water in different and related ways. I am rethinking local and international water issues and how we treat them. I found that one question would lead to another and once  that question was answered, it led to another, fascinating question.

The lasting impressions from our explorations around water this year have made me respect our rivers a lot more than I did before. I try to waste as little as possible, leaving  a cleaner river and a cleaner earth. I also use less water, knowing that the freshwater supply is finite. Water is a part of us and we need to take care of it. We are the river.


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Margeaux Montgomery is an educator who enjoys exploring, wondering, creating and laughing with her students daily.
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Day 19 - Larry Leach, Langevin School Parent Volunteer

4/24/2014

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Our responsible little citizens.

I had the honour of helping out Langevin School on Earth Day. Just like when I went to school in the 70's and 80's, we were tasked with picking up litter in the immediate area of the school. So what did I learn? The difference the students are making day to day within the school is really what makes the societal differences.

I saw this on the wall:

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Why the Landfill? Cups made of styrofoam take more than 900 years to properly break down. Cups made with Petroleum bases  (Waxy) take 10-100 years to decompose.

Recycle mixed beverage containers:
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 “Rinse first please” is not something we see in your everyday beverage recycling container. Great advice. 
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            How are disposable cups made? Mass produced in factories. Starbucks makes 2.52 billion cups every year.

            This is remarkable.
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Since September 2012, with 3 weeks down for repairs, Langevin students have saved 53,092 water bottles by filling their bottles in this fountain.

So what I learned, is that these yearly, awareness type events are nice, but Langevin shows in it's day to day studies that it is a lifestyle of environmental awareness, knowledge and good habits that will put our next generation on the right path.

Larry Leach (@ARTICSchair) is a parent volunteer at Langevin School and is the Chair for the Association for Responsive Trusteeship in Calgary Schools.
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Day 13 - Carly Lutzmann, Teacher, Arbour Lake School

4/16/2014

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At Arbour Lake School we are focused on integrated, exploratory, challenging and relevant learning.  Students in grade nine use a simulation called Civic Mirror to turn their classroom into a nation with its own laws, government and market.  Citizens from the nations of Kartoshka (yes, their country name means “potato” in Russian!) and Raspberia recently wrote letters to their Prime Minister, offering suggestions as to how to improve their countries’ economic and social standing.

While this was going on, Arbour Lake was also participating in We Are Silent, in which students and staff refrained from speaking in order to honour individuals around the world who lack the freedom to speak for themselves. The idea of learning business letter format without speaking was initially daunting, but we decided to see if the new Google Apps for Education suite could address some of those challenges. We created business letter exemplars in Google Docs and then used the comment tool to pose guiding questions for students to consider and “discuss” electronically.  Students then wrote their own letters to the Prime Minister following the provided example, and sought feedback from their classmates by digitally sharing their work with trusted peers.

By the end of a single lesson students had raised money for, and awareness of, people without the right to free speech, participated actively in their nation’s democratic process and learned how to write a business letter.  Not bad for one morning, hey? 

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Carly Lutzmann (@MsLutzmann) is a grade nine teacher at Arbour Lake School and a graduate student in Educational Leadership & Management at Royal Roads University. 
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