2016 Green, Healthy, Smart Challenge Report Form
Thank you for your participation in this year’s Green, Healthy, Smart Challenge! We are extremely excited about the work you are doing and would like to know more. This information is required for us to report to our funders and improve the way we work with city schools on sustainability in the future. Please be complete but to the point in your answers. The report is due by Friday, October 28, 2016, but you are welcome to submit it before then. If you have any questions, or if you need to request additional time to complete your project, please contact Andrea Calderon, Green Schools Assistant at or 667-224-0267. Your completed form should be sent to Andrea either by email, fax (410-244-7358), or mail (Office of Sustainability, Andrea Calderón, 417 E. Fayette St., 8th floor, Baltimore, MD 21202).
Section 1: About your Green Team
1. How many students were involved in planning and/or implementing the project? How many, if any, additional students were reached by the project? If additional students were reached, please explain how (i.e. assembly, posters, etc.)
2. What grade level (s) were the students who planned and/or implemented the project?
3. Is participation in the Green Team required, a reward, or self-selected?
4. If participation was required, which subset(s) of students were required to participate? (Please circle all that apply)
· Top performers
· A class or grade level of students
· Students who met other requirements (good attendance, good grades)
· Students with behavioral concerns or who needed additional academic opportunities
· Students who needed service learning hours
Section 2: Identifying Grant Outcomes
1. Please describe, in 1-2 concise paragraphs, outcomes of your 2016 Green, Healthy, Smart Challenge project. Please feel free to also attach any additional documentation related to your project, such as newsletter articles, flyers, etc.
2. Please attach 2 or more pictures or videos related to your project (Include as an email attachment or send via snail-mail. No faxed pictures please).
3. Was the money for the project spent as planned? If your budget changed, describe why, and how the funds were spent. Please attach project receipts.
4. Include a description of partners that helped with your project and include their contact information.
5. What was the high point of your project for the student team members?
6. Please list any lasting benefits for the school from your project.
7. Please quantify any other outcomes associated with your project (i.e. # of recycling bins distributed, # of garden beds installed, # of field trips, etc.).
8. If possible, please share a quote from one or two of your student team members about the project (please include the student’s name and grade).
9. Is your Green Team’s project supporting work you would already be doing or adding work to your work load?
10. Were there any major barriers to accomplishing your project? Please explain.
11. If you could change anything about the execution of your project, what would it be?
12. Did you participate in the Green Leader AU program?
Section 3: Status of Greening at your School
1. How would you rate your school’s sustainability efforts? (Please mark where you are on the scale):
2. If your school does not currently have the Maryland Green School Award from the Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education, are you working towards applying? If not, are you interested in beginning this process?
3. Did your school work with the Baltimore Energy Challenge in spring 2016? If so, please describe any benefits to your project or to your school’s sustainability efforts.
4. On a scale of 1-5, please rate your knowledge of the Maryland Environmental Literacy Standards
1 2 3 4 5
Not familiar Use them regularly
5. If you are familiar with Maryland’s Environmental Literacy Standards, which standard (s) do you implement the most? (Please circle all that apply)
- Standard 1: Environmental Issues
b. Standard 2: Interactions of Earth's systems
c. Standard 3: Flow of Matter and Energy
d. Standard 4: Populations, Communities and Ecosystems
e. Standard 5: Humans and Natural Resources
f. Standard 6: Environment and Health
g. Standard 7: Environment and Society
h. Standard 8: Sustainability
i. I am not familiar with Maryland’s Environmental Literacy Standards
6. Please share any other comments, questions, concerns or requests about sustainability at your school, this grant process, or Baltimore City Public Schools in general.