Kindergarten to Grade 12 Educational and Communitiy Projects

Portable Weather Station to help teach children about the weather...

There are several inexpensive and easy to set up project for school kids...

The first is a portable weather station. A portable weather station can help teach kids about the weather. What is a high pressure system and a low pressure system. What does it mean when the humidity is inching up toward 85 percent. What does it mean when the barometric pressure is dropping? The weather is around us all the time. Kids understanding of enhances their knowledge of the world in a personal on hand way.
Some schools around the world have set up their own weather monitoring stations, yours could too! Several links to school who have started their own weather stations, see below, and others whose students actually call into local radio stations to make public weather reports can be found on the net.

Weekly Reader Visual Guides: Weather & Global Warming

Elementary Schools with their own weather stations...

• http://www.susd.navajo.schoolfusion.us/
  10 Feb 2010 ... This year marks the 50th anniversary of Navajo Elementary School. .... Navajo has its very own weather station above B wing and it's hooked ...
• http://www.ash.nl/podium/default.aspx?t=121812
  ASH has its own weather station! Located on the roof of the Elementary School, our solar-powered weather station was a gift from the Parent Teacher Organization almost a decade ago. It gives students another hands-on, practical way to investigate s

Greenline 6-by-8-Foot Backyard Hobby Greenhouse

Greenhouse Educational Tools and Reources for Children...

Many kids live in apartments or condominiums and do not have a chance to feel the wonder of growing their own flowers, fruits and vegetalbles until they are long graduated out of college or university and have homes of their own.  A small green house at school can provide a solution for these students, some of which may have a green thumb.
Watching fruti and vegetable grow to maturity is a wonderful way to learn about growth cycles and edible foods.  Growing these also teaching about proper soil Ph and watering.  Vegetables that are raising by the kids at the school greenhouse could have a cooking contest once every several months inwhich parents and community members would have the opportunity to purchase the food cooked by the kids.  The Greenhouse could become a real money maker for the school in a number of helpful and useful ways, especially involving underprivileged children whose diets less than perfect. 
Amazon.com sells a number of greenhouses online.  Perhaps there is one that would be a good size for your school.

A truck full of cardboard ready to be recycled.

Starting a Recycling Program at your school...

Probably the biggest money maker and the best project to help save the environment is the school recycling center. More schools are beginning to recycle their paper, plastic, aluminum, glass, electronic waste, printer cartridges, oil and other contaminants. Some of these schools are making a profit from their efforts.
Steps in setting up a school recycling program:

• Hold a meeting with students and parents, make a decision
• Obtain recycling barrels
• Put notices around the school and in the classrooms letting all know where to recycle their waste refuse
• Contact plastic, paper, cardboard, electronic waste, and glass recyclers to find out how much they will pay for your recycled refuse
• Have the students bring bags of materials to be recycled to the school recycling center so the school can earn more money

Community Action: Organize a River Clean Up Day in Your Community

• http://hubpages.com/hub/Community-Action-Organize-a-River-Clean-Up-in-Your-Community
  But you say I am only one person. What can I do? Well here are several suggestions to help get you on your way to organizing a river clean up day, make it an annual event, in your or a nearby community. ...

Helpful link: How to Start a Recycling Project in your Community, Church, School or as a Business

• http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Start-a-Recycling-Business
  This information on recycling could help your school, college, university, church, you or local businesses earn income. I once lived near a grainier, a company that milled raw corn into chicken feed. That...

Your Baby and Early Childhood Education (ECE)

• http://hubpages.com/hub/Your-Baby-and-Early-Childhood-Education
  A baby's brain continues to develop from the first day of birth. Why not provide it with the best and most intellectually and environmentally stimulating atmosphere possible? Give your baby a head start and...

Mind Stimulating Games and Projects for Pre Kindergarten, Elementary & Middle School Students with ECE News Releases

• Mind Stimulating Games and Projects for Pre Kindergarten, Elementary & Middle School Students wi
  I was a kid, a very young kid, like in nursery school young. I remember how my brain felt. It was hungry, so starving for information and much, much more language. I wished someone had introduced phonics to...