During the last four years, Mount View is proud to have promoted outdoor living, healthy indoor air quality, and sustainable food choices through the following projects created by students:
Get Outside Mural
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Be Active Outside Photography
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Living Wall
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Grow Your Own Food Focus: Strawberries
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Grow Your Own Food Focus: Basil
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Maryland Crop Taste It Focus: Beets
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Maryland Crop Taste It Focus: Butternut Squash Soup
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Fresh Food Without Palm Oil
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Get Outside
In the fall of 2017, students in the ELT (Environmental Leadership Team) decided to create a temporary mural depicting outdoor activities that would encourage students to get outside. They created a plan for the window and then sponsored a painting time during a school celebration day. 30 students joined them to pain the mural, featuring outdoor fall activities from tree swings to football to farm stands. Then, the ELT students added facts about the value of getting outside. |
The mural painted by students.
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Outdoor Photography
Every year, our morning TV show (MVTV) sponsors a back to school photo contest. In September 2017, the TV crew members running the competition added a new category to support our Green School program: Being Active Outside. Students submitted photos showing how they were active outside during the summer, and the best photo received a gift card. |
Living Wall
In 2011, a committee of students researching indoor air quality installed two green (living) walls in our cafeteria. Now, the ELT maintains these walls by watering the plants and using cuttings to grow new plants and continuously add to the walls. In the winter, when the cold air of the recess doors hurts the plants, our ELT members can replace them with new plants that they have grown! |
An ELT member checks on his cuttings.
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A close up of the roots that have grown. This plant is ready to be added to the wall!
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Grow It: Basil
As mentioned above, the ELT (Environmental Leadership Team) has a committee that works each year to encourage students to grow their own food. The committee expanded their efforts this school year by growing sweet basil from seed and giving them away to students as prizes during school events. At one event, two committee members even led a cooking lesson about how to create sweet basil, tomato, and mozzarella skewers. Students then received basil plants to take home. |
One creative ELT student packaged some of the basil plants in boots, like seen in WALL-E.
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A new batch of basil seeds grown by students!
ELT students water the basil plants.
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MD Crop
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MD Crop
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Fresh Food Without Palm Oil
The student's recipes at the tasting booth.
The student serving the fresh food recipes.
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Screenshots of the student's research.
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