Environmental Sustainability
Environmental sustainability is a core value at Bertschi School. Learn more about how we educate the future stewards of our environment in a global community.Every classroom and specialist at Bertschi School is consistently examining how our actions impact our environment. Students are prompted to continually examine their choices, design projects, and advocate for a healthy, sustainable community and planet.
Sustainability Curriculum Highlights
Students interact with environmental sustainability topics at every grade level including studying bees at pollinators, recycling, joining the No Plastic Challenge, using recycled materials to create projects, and more.
Scientific Studies
Across all grade levels, students engage in scientific studies regarding the environmental impact of human actions designed to empower them, to make choices, to protect the Earth. For example, in kindergarten, students learn about bees as pollinators, and in fourth grade, students raise and release salmon as part of a complete lifecycle examination.
Green Team
The Green Team work together to identify and solve environmental challenges facing our school community. Recent examples include community education around the benefits of carpooling, advocating for a ban on glitter at school, and working with our facilities team to design more sustainable paper towel dispensers.
Stewardship
Our students practice caring for the Earth by caring for our campus. Growing vegetables in the garden, properly disposing of trash, recycling, and compost, and caring for Jennie the Chicken foster pride in their own environment. Bertschi kids bring their love of the environment with them as they grow. Check out some of our alumni activists below.