IS Blog » PH Albury http://blog.islandschool.org Mon, 26 Dec 2016 16:00:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 DCMS & PHA Eco-Clubs Trip to the Levy Preserve http://blog.islandschool.org/2015/02/18/dcms-pha-eco-clubs-trip-to-the-levy-preserve/ http://blog.islandschool.org/2015/02/18/dcms-pha-eco-clubs-trip-to-the-levy-preserve/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:10:04 +0000 http://islandschoolblog.capeeleuthera.org/?p=11170 Last week, 15 students from Deep Creek Middle School and 34 students from Preston H. Albury High School attend a joint Eco-Club event last night at the Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve in Governors Harbour. With a whopping 49 students, we made about half of the audience for the lecture by John Mylroie on Caves & Blue Holes in the Bahamas.

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Before the lecture students had an hour to check out the preserve and practice some of their terrestrial plant identification with a contest on who can ID the most plants. The freshwater wetland area with turtles was, of course, a huge hit for students. Hiking through bromeliad filled coppice was also especially exciting just as the sun was setting.

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Mr. Mylroie, an incredible geologist, may have used some big science-y words but students were exposed to information on how geologic formations formed with change in sea level, extracting fresh water from wells, and ways to preserve these precious formations found all over The Bahamas.

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]]> http://blog.islandschool.org/2015/02/18/dcms-pha-eco-clubs-trip-to-the-levy-preserve/feed/ 0 DCMS & PH Albury High School Eco-Clubs Team Up http://blog.islandschool.org/2015/02/17/dcms-ph-albury-high-school-eco-clubs-team-up/ http://blog.islandschool.org/2015/02/17/dcms-ph-albury-high-school-eco-clubs-team-up/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:05:27 +0000 http://islandschoolblog.capeeleuthera.org/?p=11163 IMG_3977

This past Saturday, the Deep Creek Middle School Early Act and Eco Club teamed up with Preston Albury High School’s newly formed Eco-club to sort plastics 1, 2, and 5. It wasn’t the prettiest job sorting plastic bottles, food containers, and removing bottle caps from a few hundred bottles, but we made it fun with a competition between 3 groups to see who could sort the most!

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All plastics will be sent to Cans for Kids in Nassau and then sent to the States for recycling. Cans for Kids is a Bahamian non profit that recycles cans, and now plastics as well, to raise money for schools and youth organizations. This event was an effort to spruce up the recycle center at the South Eleuthera Emergency Partners, SEEP, in Tarpum Bay to implement a One Eleuthera grant funded recycle program in schools in South Eleuthera in the next few months.

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We had 22 students from both schools and 9 adults from One Eleuthera, Cape Eleuthera Institute, Deep Creek Middle School, Rotaract Club of Eleuthera, and the Rotary Club of Eleuthera.

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