3.1 Community partnerships
ThE Community Ecology Institute helps with a second garden area at cradlerock
4-23-2022 CRES partners help to build and help get ready new planting beds.
Howard county Master Gardeners
Spring 2021 University of Maryland and the Howard County Master Gardeners cam to our school several times to teach and help our students, staff and community about gardening. David Plummer (District Manager for the Howard Soil Conservation District) and Amy Reese (Elementary Science Coordinator) and representatives from the University of Maryland Master Gardner Program.
Howard county watershed stewards meet with green team
2-8-2020 Green Team members and Watershed members meet to discuss MAEOE re-certification and next steps for our school.
hoWARD COUNTY WATERSHED STEWARDS continue our partnership January 2020.
We love having Mrs. Price and her crew come in to teach us about our environment.
"The Howard County Public School System (HCPSS) has partnered with the Howard County Watershed Stewards Academy (WSA), a program of the University of Maryland Extension, to collaborate on a variety of activities and programs that educate staff and students about improving the health of local streams and waterways.
Under the terms of the agreement, WSA representatives will provide volunteers to help students engage in hands-on environmental learning experiences, in support of school system curricular objectives and science/environmental standards. WSA will support school efforts to apply for and maintain Green School designation, as well as offer professional learning sessions or consultations for teachers on storm water management and related topics.
The Howard County Watershed Stewards Academy training program empowers residents to improve the quality of local waterways. By sharing resources, forming partnerships and coordinating efforts, WSA works with a consortium of support professionals, master watershed stewards and their communities to reduce pollutants, infiltrate storm water and restore natural systems." https://extension.umd.edu/news/howard-county-students-learn-how-care-local-waterways https://www.howardwsa.org/
clothing and SHoes recycling at Cradlerock Elementary/Lake ElkHorn MS- January 2020
We offer a place to donate clothing and shoes so they can be cleaned and given away.
PTA encourages healthy families
We offer meetings and lessons for healthy families. 9-2019
HOWARD COUNTY WATERSHED STEWARDS TEACH 5th GRADERS Spring2019
5th graders learn about the Chesapeake Bay animals and their importance.
Howard County watershed stewards teach 3rd graders
Mrs. Price and her team from the Howard County Watershed Stewards taught our third graders about the Chesapeake Bay and keeping the watershed clean. Oct.2017
Science night
Students and their families came for a science night at CRES. It was sponsored by our Title I program and the Maryland Science Center. (April 21, 2017)
judy center STEM night activity
In winter 2017, Judy Center has STEM program for students and their family. We used recycled materials to create our marble rolls.
Howard County Watershed Stewards Academy and our students paint stormwater Drains
Our Bridges program and the Howard County Watershed Stewards painted our storm drains on school property (April2017). With Mrs. Chris Price and her team from Howard County Watershed Stewards.
Judy center and CRES center have COMMUNITY Health fair
At our community health fair, we made sure everyone was recycling!
Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Patapsco area
Members of the Maryland Conservation Corps from the Patapsco State Park come to our school weekly to help classes with their environmental lessons and they read The Lorax to all classrooms (440 students) on our Read Across America Day in March 2016.
staff is on board to be a Green school
Green team students gathered staff signatures to make sure everyone is knowledgeable and willing to be a part of our Green School.
Howard County Recycle
CRES had Ms. Alicia Moore from the Howard County Recycling Office visit all students (440 students) during lunch time in March 2016. She gave posters for our tables about what is recyclable.
Greenewit and Columbia Association
Greenewit is a local company energy solutions company that came to Cradlerock in November 2015 and did a presentation to all grades (440 students). They taught the students and staff that we are connected to our environment, so we need to be energy efficient and look for opportunities to reduce consumption and save resources. Along with Columbia Association, Greenewit co-hosted a STEM night for students and their families (47 students and 35 parents) in December 2015.
_Click here for the media report for Greenewit , CA, and CRES
_Click here for the media report for Greenewit , CA, and CRES
Terracycle
Students in each grade (440 students) collect juice pouches from breakfast and lunch in both their individual pods and the cafeteria. We send them to Terracycle who are champions of recycling hard to recycle items into recycled, up-cycled items instead of the land fill.
johns hopkins university applied physics lab
An engineer from JHU APL who works on NASA projects came and presented information to our third graders (66 students) in February of 2016. Afterwards, students worked on STEM projects to engineer a 'tow truck' to pull a truck out of the muck using only magnets, strings, popsicle sticks, and tape. They used found and recycled items to create our trucks.
The engineer also came back on Read Across America Day in March 2016 to read a book about the first trip to the moon to third graders (21 students) and had them act out the book as he read.