1. AMS is Going Green!

2. Green School Application Process
Schools must document activities accomplished over a 2 year period (ending on June 1st of the year the application is submitted).  
Major components of the application include:
•  A one-page cover sheet and a concise one-page summary •  A short description (one-page maximum) followed by documentation of the following requirements: •  Classroom Integration of environmental issue instruction •  Professional development •  Celebration •  Demonstration of selected conservation best management practices (BMPs) •  Sustained school-community partnerships to enhance environmental learning

3. Who needs to be involved?
Representatives of each of the following groups:
Teaching Staff
Facility Manager
Students
Parents
Community Partners

4. Community Partnerships
Criteria for Application
Community Partnerships
Curriculum and Instruction
Meet All Criteria
Use of Environment as a context for learning
Professional Development
Celebration
Meet 1 of 2 Criteria
Your School is Active in the
Community
The Community is Active in Your School
Schools Meet at least 4 of 7 Criteria
Water Conservation/Water Pollution
Prevention
Energy Conservation
Waste Reduction
Habitat Restoration
Structures for Environmental Learning
Responsible Transportation
Healthy School Environment
Best Management Practices

5. (We already have started!)
When Do We Start?!
(We already have started!)
School yard restoration projects
Partnership with Arlington Echo
Science curriculum (environmental units in every grade)
Recycling available
Partnership with South River Federation
$$ Support from Greenscape and Unity Garden
US Fish and Wildlife support

6. What can go in Single Stream Recycling????????
Classroom Recycling
3 Containers
Trash – brown plastic can – Custodians will dump after breakfast and at end of day
Single Stream Recycling – ALL recyclables (except paper ) Yellow Plastic Bin. Students will dump in larger hallway recycling bin at the end of the day
Paper – ALL paper will be recycled in the cardboard box. Students will dump in larger hallway paper recycling bin at the end of the day
What can go in Single Stream Recycling????????

7. Single Stream Yellow Recycling Containers
Classroom and Office Recycling
Paper Collection Boxes
Paper (white and colored)
Self-Adhesive Notes
Fax & Telex Sheets
Scratch and Message Pads
Loose-Leaf Paper
Goldenrod Envelopes
Envelopes with/without windows
Brown envelopes
Magazines
Newspapers
Lunch bags (no food waste)
Adding machine tape
Folders (plain/colored/coated)
Composition Notebooks
Workbooks
Spiral notebooks (w/spiral, NO plastic covers)
NO CARDBOARD!!!
Single Stream Yellow Recycling Containers
Loose Cardboard (unwaxed)
Empty Waxed Cardboard (drink boxes/milk cartons)
Flattened Corrugated Cardboard
Ringed binders
Empty aluminum cans
Bi-metal cans
Steel cans
Glass (clear, brown, green)
#1 plastic (empty bottles)
#2 plastic (empty bottles)
Plastic bags/wrappers IF they are bagged together!