Environment & Service Learning Project Ideas
All Maryland students participate in service learning as a part of the regular curriculum. These projects were chosen to illustrate environmentally-related service learning projects. Currently, over 60%of Maryland service learning projects relate to the environment.
For further information on service learning, see the MSDE
Service Learning Homepage.
Sherry Unger Award Winners
Service-Learning through Environmental Education
St. Michaels Elementary School Service-Learning Environmental Club,
St. Michaels Elementary School, Talbot County Public Schools, Katie Douglas
Marvelous Meadow Project
Oakville Elementary School, St. Mary’s County, Renee Reining
Chesapeake Connections Environmental Outreach Program, Don Sholl,
Anne Arundel County Public Schools and Arlington Echo Outdoor Education Center,
Anne Arundel County
Reforestation Project
Renee Reining, Oakville Elementary School, St. Mary’s County, 301-373-4365,
Rain Garden, Margaret Paul, Towson High School, Baltimore County (Mar 2004)
The Bayscape Garden, Pamela Pennington-Schau, John Hanson Middle School,
Charles County (Dec 2003)
Wood Duck Nesting Boxes, Darryl C. Calloway, Sudlersville Middle School,
Queen Anne's County (Aug 2003)
Environmental Clean-up Day, Amy R. Pike, Special Emphasis Teacher, and Thelma C. Smith, Principal, Gaithersburg Middle School, Montgomery County (Mar 2002)
Schoolyard Habitat Genesis, Rob Cooper, Dorchester County (May 2001)
Bringing Back the Eastern Oyster, by Erin Strickland Woodrow (ANSERC), with students from Calvert County Public Schools (March 2001)
Nature Trail, Reginald Canaday, Cherry Hill Middle School, Cecil County (Oct 2000)