32 Days 'til the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day: Teachers Go Green (Part 5)

This is the final teacher feature in our "Teachers Go Green" series! If you would like to view past teacher features, visit our blog's homepage here and scroll to discover all the amazing things local teachers are doing with their students.

Sustainability Superheroes would like to introduce Denise Morelli, a lab teacher at Pepin Academy. She uses sustainability in her classroom in many ways. Check out how she inspires entrepreneurial thinking in her students!

She says, "Our main campus has gardens where they do all kinds of recycling and growing plants to use the vegetables for cooking in the culinary classrooms." This is a creative and fun sustainable idea that all students love!

Denise also says, "In my own classroom, I have a maker space where we do a lot of recycling and repurposing. We also have a recycling program where students recycle all the items in the school that are no longer being used. In addition, we collect markers to make our own paint and send them to the Crayola company to be recycled."

Wow! This teacher is doing so much to teach sustainability in her classroom. Making paint out of markers is such a cool idea! Students are learning to be more aware of their consumption and how this affects the environment. They are also learning how to use creative entrepreneurial thinking to solve real world problems!

Thank you to Denise and all our teachers who participated in our "Teachers Go Green" series. If you would like teaching ideas to use sustainability in your classroom, visit our resources page with endless activities and lesson plans that you can use with your students!

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