Schoolyard Habitat Schoolyard Habitat provide an opportunity for students to develop their skills in critical thinking, problem solving, and stewardship. Students apply their results and insights in the form of newsletters, reports, presentations, and videos to the school and community. Older students research using computers to telecommunicate on the Rootsnet network. Students investigate adaptations, inter-dependence and change in the nearby forest. Students investigate the diversity, adaptation and change of plants, animals, insects and birds.
Students test and monitor soil samples from around their school, homes and community.
They also maintain the school compost program. Students study the interdependence of all life in the water. They test and evaluate the water quality of local samples and share their results with the school and community. Students monitor and forecast changes in weather conditions, compiling data for future uses and comparison. Students monitor ecological changes such as acid rain, ozone depletion, climate change and network with regional, national and international organizations.