8th Graders in the Madagascar Rainforest
May 20, 2009
"Welcome to the Madagascar Rainforest" was uttered repeatedly on Thursday, May 14, 2009 as the 8th Grade students hosted a breakfast in the rainforest for parents and teachers.
Junior High students completed a service project in late April that involved selling t-shirts provided by The Earth Foundation. The Earth Foundation uses all of the profits from the sales to help save a specific rainforest each year. The school made no profits from the sales. This year The Earth Foundation is working to save rainforests in Madagascar. EJSHS students sold enough shirts to save 15.4 acres of forest.
Following the service project 8th graders embarked on a study of Madagascar and its rainforest. After the required videos, reports, and scrapbooks, students constructed a rainforest that represented the one in Madagascar. Mr. Hughes and Mrs. Pitko graciously allowed students to turn the Health classroom into a jungle. Students learned much about the flora and fauna of the jungle, the people of Madagascar, resources available from Madagascar, and many reasons why preserving rainforests are so important to our world:)
Upon removal of the rainforest from the Health classroom, in an effort to recycle, many of the decorations were saved for use in the future. Ms. Hart's classes used the paper that was discarded as mulch for the worm beds they are maintaining.
