Supporting Maryland Green Schools
The Masonville Cove staff have supported many schools through their process of the school's Green School application. So far, Masonville has assisted nine schools. They are: Ben Franklin High School, Curtis Bay Elementary/Middle School, Lakeland Elementary/Middle School, Federal Hill Preparatory School, Logan Elementary School, Baltimore Lab School, Chapel Hill Elementary School, Magathoy Cooperative Pre-School, and Oldfields School.
Sustainable Practices
Susie Peeling works with multiple Title-One Baltimore County Schools. She assists schools by writing grants, so that the students in those schools have field trip opportunities. During one of her field trips, she asked Christina Gladmon if she knew of any other grants out there that she could apply to. Theses images were the correspondence sent to Susie.
Jessica Chiappelli reached out to the Masonville Cove green leaders for assistance with finding resources for her preschool students. The team gave Jessica some suggestions but they also connected Jessica to Kerry Wixted from DNR.
Green School Application Support
Below is a picture of Christina Gladmon giving a presentation to Chapel Hill Elementary School on the process of becoming a green school on December 12, 2014.
Christina Gladmon and Amie McDaniels led a workshop for Ben Franklin High School on April 12, 2013. Ben Franklin was working towards the school's Green School application and they needed assistance with the professional development portion of the application.
Lastly, the Masonville Cove staff have reviewed many applications to ensure that the schools applying have all the necessary items. Below are multiple examples of these reviews.
Environmental Education Programs
Staff at Masonville Cove Environmental Education Campus offer a wide range of programming. Below is a spread sheet of all the programming that has occurred in the past four years. For more descriptions of the programs please continue reading.
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The following pictures are from programs that occurred at Masonville Cove.
Weekend Programming
Science is Alive for Kids Under Five
These free weekend programs are open to the young nature explorers. Programming is geared for pre-school aged kids and their younger siblings. Students can learn about nature through hands on learning, play acting, songs, and crafts.
Budding Biologist
Budding Biologist is geared to 5-7 year old nature explorers who are curious about the world around them. Students learn about the natural world through hands on learning experiments and crafts. The program includes a craft.
Habitat Heroes
Habitat Heroes allow young scientist that are 8-13 years old to learn in depth about nature. Students investigate natural wonders and some problems that nature faces. At the conclusion of each program, students complete a service project for that environmental issue.
School-Based Programs
Treasuring Our Chesapeake Bay
The Treasuring Our Chesapeake Bay Program works with students from 11 of the neighboring Title-One schools in the Federal Hill/Locust Point neighborhoods, the Cherry Hill neighborhoods, the Westport/Mount Winans/Lakeland neighborhoods, and the Curtis Bay/Brooklyn neighborhoods. During the program students are introduced to the Chesapeake Bay and its treasures. Students are surprised to learn how close they live to the Chesapeake Bay and begin to develop a sense of stewardship by investigating the death of an imaginary dear friend during a field trip entitled “Who Killed Rocky the Rockfish?”. They investigate the negative impacts that humans have on the Bay.
School Leadership in Urban Runoff Reduction Project
The Living
Classrooms Foundation’s School Leadership in Urban Runoff Reduction Project
(SLURRP) is a project-based learning experience for students that is
centered on the question, “What is stormwater runoff pollution, and how can we
help prevent it?” Throughout the
program, students work within their own neighborhoods and schoolyards to
investigate this important urban environmental issue, to examine their own
attitudes and behaviors and to seek solutions to this problem. Action steps of the project include neighborhood trash reduction,
storm drain stenciling, community outreach, and green space planting. The SLURRP program serves students from 10 of the neighboring Title-One schools in the Federal Hill/Locust Point neighborhoods, the Cherry Hill neighborhoods, the Westport/Mount Winans/Lakeland neighborhoods, and the Curtis Bay/Brooklyn neighborhoods.
High School Internships
Please click here to learn more about our high school and college internship programs.