Ruth Moyer ElementaryThird Grade

Service Learning Project

Composting for Our Community

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Who is participating?*School

Mrs. Graves’ classMrs. Kendall’s classMrs. McGraw’s classFamiliesMoyer’s cafeteria

*CommunityCity of Fort Thomas

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What is Service Learning?

Service learning is teaching and learning methods that connect meaningful community service experiences with academic learning, personal growth, and civic responsibility.http://www.servicelearningnky.org/

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What are we doing?

We are helping the environment by collectingyard plants, leaves, small twigs, fruit and vegetable scraps, coffee grounds from our homes to reduce the amount of garbage we send to our landfills.

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What are we doing?

We take these materials to a fenced in area that the City of Fort Thomas constructed behind our school.

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What are we doing?

Our classes take turns putting the compost material in the pile, and we rake it to mix it up.

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How does this relate to what we are learning?

In the beginning of the year, we studied plants and their needs. We also studied soil and the need to conserve soil. This led us to our study of conservation of our environment. We took what we learned and decided to make a compost pile for a service learning project.

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How we started?

She talked to us about how to start a compost pile.

We invited Doris Meece, a horticulture technician from the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Extension office to visit our school.

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How we started?

She explained what a compost pile needs.

air water heat

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How we started?She also told us what not to put in our pile.

Dairy Products Meat or Bones

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How we maintain it?

When classes take out the compost material to the pile, we:

• make sure to spread out the scraps we put on it.

• use rakes to move the material around.

• control the water and heat by raking it.

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How will we use it?

• We will take the soil, rich in nutrients, and make our school’s flower beds and flower pots better.

• We will give some to the city to use in the parks.

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Here’s what we’ve learned and how we’ve used it…

Students made models of a compost pile

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Once we dump our materials, we rake the pile to control the moisture and to help the decomposition.

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The material we put on our pile in the fall is turning into dark, rich soil. C

Here’s what we’ve learned and how we’ve used it...

We went on a field trip to Rumpke’s Landfill.On our bus tour, we saw the different trucks they use. We learned that the landfill works with cells, filling them up at different times. They explained that they have to prepare a cell before use by putting in pipes to drain the “garbage juice”. They take the methane gas from the “juice” and use it to heat houses.

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Here’s what we’ve learned and how we’ve used it...

We went on a field trip to Rumpke’s Landfill.P

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and how we’ve used

it…We went on a

field trip to Rumpke’s Landfill.

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Composting Open ResponseOur Earth is important to us for many reasons, such as clean air to breathe, clean water, as well as having many resources that we get from her. Reducing, reusing, and recycling are a few ways we can protect the Earth.A) Explain how creating and maintaining a compost pile plays a part in the reduce, reuse, and recycle concept.

B) Describe how your community and the Earth benefit from composting.

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Here’s what we’ve learned and how we’ve used it…

Open Response

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Open Response

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Computer Team

Trent Webster, Beth Ann Griffith, and Tommy Steppe

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Presenters

Claire Snider, Paul Tully, and Devan Murphy

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Mrs. GravesLauryn Brasch

Kiersten Clukey

Dalton Cornett

Evan Fickenscher

Kyle Finfrock

Lexie Gabbard

Beth Ann Griffith

Ben Grothaus

Taylor Hergott

Lucy Johanneman

Jacob Johnson

Noah Kremer-Stegman

Jamir Logan

Grant Murray

Abby Napier

Joseph Palmer

Abigail Parrott

Emma Petersen

Ivy Smalling

Paul Tully

Cheyenne Williams

Mrs. KendallLydia Albice

Matthew Crockett

Payton Epperson

Caroline Hawkins

Andi Holt

Adrian Mester

Devan Murphy

Connor Myers

Kayla Nehus

Emma Paolucci

Brendan Parker

Greyson Pendery

Morgan Race

Sophie Schell

Annie Schneider

Michael Siska

Aaron Steffen

Tommy Steppe

Vanessa Tenney

Danielle Turner

Abby Weyer

Mrs. McGrawMorgan Applegate

Spencer Dee

Lauren Epperson

Alex Fischer

Simon Frink

Dylan Hofstetter

Emmalee Kempf

Emily McCoy

Helen Ross

Luke Ross

Mitchel Schry

Angel Shann

Claire Snider

Hayley Swicegood

Tahj Tidwell

Dylan Tierney

Bryce Traylor

Trent Webster

Alexis Wolfe

Thanks to the hard work of all of our third grade classes……

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