Williamsport Elementary Magnet School
for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
School & Community Partnerships
The town of Williamsport fully supports Williamsport Elementary and our goal in recycling phone books. They have continued to support us over the past 7 years and every year it has just grown with more and more support. We have several collection boxes around town where anyone can deposit their old phone books. This is in addition to the students bringing in phone books from people that they also have collected from in their family and neighborhoods.
In our classrooms, we have a contest. The classroom with the most phone books collected by the end of April, wins an extra recess. The past few years we decided to do the same thing for the town business that collects the most phone books by the end of April. It has really sparked some fun among the businesses and added a bit of competition to the collection.
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Springfield Middle School Teamwork
Springfield Middle School National Honor Society students wanted to help our school. They started a program to encourage middle schoolers to collect plastic bags and other stretchable material to recycle along with our Elementary School to help us get a Buddy Bench from the Trex Company. In only 4 months together we collected 559 pounds of plastic that will stay out of the landfill. That is amazing!
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Washington County Watershed Specialist
Our school has met with Alex Reed multiple times as a Erosion resource. He has come to meet with our Green School Teacher committee to discuss erosion on our school grounds. He has also come to our 4th Grade Stream Day field trip and met with all the 4th graders during one of their rotations. He showed the students a model of home and together they discussed runoff and erosion and then took a tour of the stream to find real world examples.
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Fairview Outdoor School Resource - Tim Abe
In May of 2018, Fairview Outdoor School Resource, Tim Abe came to our Green School Kids Committee to share a lesson on different things of nature are connected. The students rolled a nature dice and it told them where they were going next to add a bead to their bracelet. Very engaging and informative.
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