Additional Activities
2.5 Structures for Environmental Learning
2.6 Responsible Transportation
2.7 Healthy Home / School Environment
2.5 Structures for Environmental Learning
#1 Courtyard
Students frequently utilize our campus courtyard. During the fall and spring when the weather is nice there are often two classes utilizing the courtyard at one time. A pond has been installed, native gardens planted, and several picnic tables that provide adequate seating . Students monitor water quality of the pond, use the trees in the courtyard for forestry investigations, place feeders and homes for organisms to winter or just simply use the area as an outdoor classroom.
Students frequently utilize our campus courtyard. During the fall and spring when the weather is nice there are often two classes utilizing the courtyard at one time. A pond has been installed, native gardens planted, and several picnic tables that provide adequate seating . Students monitor water quality of the pond, use the trees in the courtyard for forestry investigations, place feeders and homes for organisms to winter or just simply use the area as an outdoor classroom.
#2 Fleet of Canoes, Storage container for field investigation tools and a Marsh next to the campus
Sparrows Point High school is extremely fortunate to have its very own fleet of canoes and a marsh within walking distance of our school. Students take field trips during one class period! Our canoes are utilized frequently for bird watching excursions, nature watching, and other investigations of the marsh. If students are not on the marsh they are in the marsh seining for fish, raking for clams, sampling water, or setting traps to count and analyze fish populations.
Sparrows Point High school is extremely fortunate to have its very own fleet of canoes and a marsh within walking distance of our school. Students take field trips during one class period! Our canoes are utilized frequently for bird watching excursions, nature watching, and other investigations of the marsh. If students are not on the marsh they are in the marsh seining for fish, raking for clams, sampling water, or setting traps to count and analyze fish populations.
2.6 Responsible Transportation
During the winter of 2019 students began work on implementing an Idle Free Zone for our school. Plans were cut short due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
During the winter of 2019 students began work on implementing an Idle Free Zone for our school. Plans were cut short due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
2.7 Healthy Home/School Environment
In the spring of 2018 one of our students decided he wanted to give back to our school. Andrew B. from troop 732 chose our school as the beneficiary for his Eagle scout project. Andrew, several scouts and adults from his troop, along with several staff members and students from SPHS installed a vegetable garden in our fenced in courtyard. Mrs. Karwacki uses the vegetables and herbs grown in the garden during several of her lessons in Foods and Nutrition. Additionally, the veggies have been used to feed the numerous reptiles kept in Mrs. Bodis' and Ms. Allen's classrooms. The four raised bed vegetable gardens are flanked on either side by native flower gardens. (Habitat restoration) Students are responsible for maintaining the gardens.
In the spring of 2018 one of our students decided he wanted to give back to our school. Andrew B. from troop 732 chose our school as the beneficiary for his Eagle scout project. Andrew, several scouts and adults from his troop, along with several staff members and students from SPHS installed a vegetable garden in our fenced in courtyard. Mrs. Karwacki uses the vegetables and herbs grown in the garden during several of her lessons in Foods and Nutrition. Additionally, the veggies have been used to feed the numerous reptiles kept in Mrs. Bodis' and Ms. Allen's classrooms. The four raised bed vegetable gardens are flanked on either side by native flower gardens. (Habitat restoration) Students are responsible for maintaining the gardens.