Elements > Environmental Awareness

We seek to bring meaning and purpose to the creation story and our role as caretakers of the earth. In order to care for, conserve and preserve places and resources, we must first know them, appreciate them, and understand their intrinsic value. When students raise Monarch Butterflies from their own garden, tagging and releasing them for their migration to Mexico, they learn other issues along the way such as bio-diversity, habitat loss, and deforestation. Students begin to understand a watershed region by learning that what enters a storm sewer on their street in Camden, New Jersey can easily polute the ocean waters and bays of Assateague Island, Maryland.