1. -Expand conservation, protection, and restoration efforts and public awareness of the natural environment.
   

2. -Collaborate with local, region, state, and national organization/institutions/government agencies/ non-profits in efforts to preserve and protect the environment.
   

3. -Expand public education and outreach efforts to foster lifestyle changes that will reduce the 
   

  public’s contribution to the pollution problem.

1. -Take a proactive role supporting solutions that create environmental sustainability.
   

- Prevent adverse impacts on beaches and plant/ animal species.

1. -Supplement the short-term action plan of beach clean-up activities in our community, with a
   

   quarterly strategy, through parental, family, and community involvement.

1. -Engage in community service/ outreach programs  by demonstrating commitments in tangible ways, as exemplary stewards of the environment.
   

With this initiative, children and youth will monitor progress, and environmental goals by recording impact, and empowering others of what they can do to make a difference and help save the planet.

Students will:

1. -Develop an understanding of the environment and environmental sustainability.
   

2. -Demonstrate the ability to ask questions about the world around them, speculate and hypothesize, research information, and develop answers to scientific inquiries.
   

3. -Demonstrate inquiry skills by developing a mastery of fundamental skills for gathering, organizing, interpreting, synthesizing, and evaluating information; developing explanations, and communications results in various forms (verbal, written presentation(s).
   

4. -Create, and implement an action plan, and cleanup coordination for various shores and public beaches in our local area.
   

5. -Use scientific knowledge by observing and making inferences, record data, raise questions, investigate in teams, and generate appropriate explanations based on those explorations.
   

6. -Compare observations made.
   

7. -Distinguish between empirical observations (see, hear, feel, smell, taste) and ideas or inferences (what they think).
   

8. -Keep records as appropriate such as pictorial, written, or simple charts and graphs of investigations conducted.
   

9. -Recognize the importance of communication among scientists.
   

10. -Recognize that scientists question, discuss, and check each others evidence and explanations.
    

11. -Use techniques such as modeling and simulating to organize information gathered in their investigations.
    

12. -Suggest possible investigations and describe the results that emerge from such investigations.
    

Throughout this initiative, students use a variety of standards from Science, Math, Reading/Language Arts, and Technology.

The School Board of Broward County Strategic plan outlines goals and objectives in Goal 7: Environmental Stewardship, ensuring district’s leadership as an environmental steward through innovative ecology and energy conservation programs. The District implemented the Environmental Stewardship Policy (7014) to support Goal 7, promoting environmental stewardship by supporting resource conservation as an economic, environmental, and social priority to be taught, practiced, and implemented throughout the district. Download SBBC Policy 7014 click here

1. -Climate Change
   

Climate change, also known as global warming, has the potential to impact every living thing on this earth. Because of climate change, our world is seeing more extreme, erratic, and unusual weather. Climate change can cause droughts, floods, extreme weather, coral bleaching and other problems that could negatively impact our economy, our health, and our state.

1. -Energy Conservation
   

Many people do not know that the energy we use to power our buildings and vehicles has an important impact on our lives. Fossil fuel based energy (like gasoline, coal, oil, and natural gas) generates pollution that causes acid rain, smog, and global warming. The more we use, the more we pollute. The less we use, the less we pollute. Being energy-smart in your home and your school not only saves you money, but it helps the planet, too. We can all do our part to keep our planet clean so that children born today can live to enjoy a healthy planet tomorrow.

1. -Environmental Protection 

What are the chemical connections to global warming? How much energy can be generated by wind? These are the types of questions Broward students work to answer daily. In elementary school, students learn about the connections between living things in the environment. In middle school, students explore the connections between living things and the impact humans have when these connections are challenged. In high school, students explore environmental issues from a variety of angles and examine the many ways that we can all be more active in protecting the environment.

1. -Recycling & Waste
   

We each produce about 4.4 pounds of garbage a day! Almost half of that can be recycled. Many landfills are rapidly filling up to capacity and are closing forever. Many states, such as New York, transport their garbage as far as Texas because they are unable to manage their waste locally. Incinerating garbage can pollute the air. Contrary to popular belief, ocean dumping is still occurring all over the world. The natural answer is to recycle, but it’s not enough. We can all take steps to reduce the amount of waste we create and protect natural resources.

1. -Horticulture: Butterfly & Vegetable Gardening
   

Gardens and trees play an important role in beautifying the landscape, preventing erosion, and absorbing harmful pollution like carbon dioxide. The quantity of plants and trees directly affect water and air quality. They minimize effects of natural disasters such as flooding, landslides, and hurricanes. Plants can prevent erosion, a particular problem across Florida’s beaches. Besides all these quantifiable benefits, plants provide beautiful views that are aesthetically pleasing and relaxing.

1. -Water Conservation
   

Since 70 percent of the Earth is covered by water, this resource seems deceptively abundant. However, 97.5 percent of all water on Earth is salt water, leaving only 2.5 percent as fresh water. Of that fraction, 70 percent is frozen in icecaps and much of the rest is trapped as soil moisture or deep below the Earth. This leaves less than one percent of the world’s potable, or drinkable, water left for consumption. In addition, we must share that small amount among people, animals, and plants.

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