Project Learning Tree GreenWorks! grant

Past Minnesota GreenWorks! recipients

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2010

Wright Technical Center in Buffalo earns PLT grant to create a native pollinator garden. Grade 6-12 students will restore an abandoned parcel of cropland near their school. "The pollinator garden will give students a chance to learn valuable skills while providing a service to the school and local community," said teacher Craig Hagberg. Wright County Journal-Press external link

2009

Crosby-Ironton Community Education
$1,650 Funds will be used:

  • To create a traveling trunk based on “Leave No Trace” principles
  • Implement a long-term system that allows grade 11-12 to peer teach PLT activities to district grade 2 students, as part of a high school service-learning curriculum.
  • Provide Crosby-Ironton teachers with a PLT training
  • Provide Crosby-Ironton high school students with PLT activities to use with 2nd grade students

St. Paul, Minnesota Tree Trust
$3,800 Funds will be used:

  • To launch an outdoor classroom program at Southview Elementary in Apple Valley
  • Implement Tree Trust's "Learning with Trees" program
  • Help mobilize a Green Team of school and community volunteers to create an outdoor classroom.
  • Provide teachers with a PLT training.
  • Award Southview staff with a "Tree Trunk" that contains lesson plans, interactive activities, and materials to use in the outdoor classroom.

Bridgewater Elementary School, Northfield "Kids Who Care"

$250 - $1,000 category

Funds will be used to launch Green Teams of students and adult volunteers who will work with three elementary schools. They will focus on composting as they strengthen their reading, writing, math, and science knowledge and skills.

Phalen Lake Elementary School, St. Paul, "School Tree Planting"

$250 - $1,000 category

Students are helping to prepare the site, and will plant and maintain trees on the now-bare grounds. They will study the trees they plant and involve the community in their activity.

2008

Minnesota Tree Trust, "Learning With Trees"

$250 - $1,000 category

This project will take place at Southview Elementary School in Apple Valley, where students, school personnel, families, and volunteers will form a Green Team to implement an environmental learning program and create an outdoor classroom. Forty teachers will take part in a PLT Workshop to incorporate outdoor learning into the curriculum.

Bena, Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School, Silver Eagle Nature Trail – John Parmeter
$1,000 - $5,000 category
Funds will be used to complete a nature trail on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Chippewa National Forest. There, K-12 students will be taught Ojibwe traditions and environmental stewardship as they learn to respect the land on the one-mile interpretive trail that will include an integrated native garden and six learning kiosks. Students will learn through their involvement in planting, building, identifying, labeling, and studying the wildlife surrounding them on the nature trail.

2007

Minneapolis, Northrop Urban Environmental Learning Center, Naturally Native Arbor Day
$250 – $1,000 category
The entire school community will be invited to attend as elementary students plant six trees native to Minnesota and install interpretive signs.

 

East Grand Forks Senior High School, Sherlock Habitat Restoration
$250 - $1,000 category
High school students will remove invasive species and revegetate riparian zones in the Red River State Recreational Area, a former residential area wiped out by the 1997 flood. These native plant areas will provide food and shelter for the birds that migrate along the river. High schoolers will plant and maintain these wildlife thickets and survey the animals that use them.

2006

International Falls, Falls Elementary School Tree Planting
$250 – $1,000 category
Native tree species will be planted by students and Boise Cascade Corporation employees to serve as a windbreak and erosion control on the outer boundaries of the new playground area at the school. The trees will be used by many classes as an educational resource.

2004

Lino Lakes, Wargo Nature Center - Interpretive signs for wildlife gardens
$300
To install at several wildlife gardens several interpretive signs that will describe that habitat, its wildlife, and opportunities for the public to recreate that type of habitat in their own backyard.

 

Other grant awardees around the country external link

Minnesota GreenWorks! Grant Coordinator
Laura Duffey
MN Project Learning Tree Coordinator
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