Our Part
Canyon Clean-up
Muir Seniors clean canyon by Muir School for Oceans Alive canyon monitoring project.
Oceans Alive is an informative project completed by ABC Online along with the Community Biodiversity, the British Council Australia, and oz-TeacherNet. Its goal is to help youth to earn a deeper gratitude for marine biodiversity.
This year seniors at John Muir completed community service hours by cleaning up a section of Tecolote Canyon located right next to the school. Students cleaned trash out of the water in the canyon, as well as garbage that was strewn throughout the canyon grounds. In order to keep our community clean, we spent a couple of hours cleaning up objects that had been abandoned, forgotten, or thrown carelessly aside. Among the objects collected were a bicycle tire, a toddler toy car, a stuffed aardvark, as well as a frisbee and a couple of different balls, like golf balls and tennis balls.
Later we made brochures for Oceans Alive with pictures we had taken of the canyon and the storm drains throughout the canyon.
Primetime Birdhouse Project
Jaime's KIVA Project
On February 5th, we started building the greenhouse, and in about 5 hours, we were done. We spend some more time to fix some small details, but it wasn't hard to build because everything was straightforward and all the pieces were in their boxes. This green house was built to help me raise money and protect the plants. I’m selling for my senior project, after I use it, it will help someone else with their project or maybe the school will use it to grow plants for their own. This green house was build in the back of the school so that it will be able to stay safe and nobody can get in without permission. 
This green house is very important because we will get a lot of money to loan to people who need it more than we do around the world. We are loaning money at KIVA.org to people in Peru, Dominican Repubic, and Kahzakstan.
Elementary gardens
School Gardens
Some classes at school planted a garden with native plants as a project. Others did beans, lettuce, tomatoes, and other vegetables.
What was the garden about?
They grew plants and then wrote about native plants in SD. Some classes ate food they grew.
How did the students contribute to the garden?
They researched native plants, drew pictures of them, and scanned them into the computer.
Why is the garden important to our school?
Because students are learning to collaborate with students around the world and about the plants that are here.