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Horticulture Club
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The Horticulture club is a wonderful place for you
to be if you like the outdoors. Students from
all grades take care of the plants in and around the
outside of the building in Horticulture Club. Some
students get passes to get into the school building
early in order to go around and water all of the
plants in the school. If teachers request for
their plants to be watered, the horticulture club
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Involved students also meet every Thursday after
school in room 110. This club helps to improve the
quality of the air within the school, and increase
its general appearance. Members of the Horticulture
Club care for the plants outside. The design
the layout, mulch, weed, fertilize, water, and more.
The students who participate in the Horticulture
Club are eligible for community service hours. The
Horticulture Club is sponsored by
Ms.
Epling and Ms.
Moran. If you are interested in joining
next year, please contact one of these science
teachers.
| The sixth graders of Takoma Park have currently
been studying the environment in their science classes. As a closing
activity for this unit, all sixth graders would participate in one of five
projects on May 28th or May 29th, depending on their science period. The
five projects all focus on helping reduce problems in our surroundings.
Students would be taught certain skills useful for mending the
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Project topics were developed by science teachers and workers from the
Anacostia Watershed Society and Maryland National Park and Planning
Commission. The projects include storm drain painting, removal of non-native
plants, tree planting, soil percolation, and trash pick up and analysis. In
storm drain painting, students would paint the words "Don't Dump,
Anacostia River Drainage" on each storm drain in the Takoma Park school
parking lot. Meanwhile, some students would be removing plants like
honeysuckle and ivy in the removal of non-native plants project. For tree
planting, students would also be planting eight trees. For soil percolation,
they would conduct experiments to find how fast water sinks into soil in
certain areas of the Takoma Park school grounds. Trash pick up and analysis
is mainly collecting trash around the school and recording the findings. The
ten community service hours given to all sixth graders after they graduate
sixth grade would be earned from these environmental projects and from their
recycling unit (the students have been collecting paper, cans, and bottles
during the whole year).
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