Walking Wednesdays at Rouge Valley: Eco Club

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Eco Club

As part of the initiative to get Rouge Valley accredited as a TDSB Eco School, students and staff came together to form the Eco Club. The club meets once a week during lunch, to discuss and plan ways to spread environmental awareness, and encourage best practices with the use of energy and resources.

What are we doing?

Each week students walk through their local community to a meadow on the edge of the Rouge River Valley. These “place based” environment activities are integrated with curriculum areas and meet the Ministry’s environmental policy found in Acting Today, Shaping Tomorrow.

Our philosophy is to engage students through experiential learning and to cover as wide a range of curriculum as possible. Using Walking Wednesdays as a jumping off point, we have covered Ministry curriculum expectations in Science, Social Studies, Mathematics, Language and the Arts.