After School (LEAP) Classes
The after-school workshops below are available free to public middle and high schools on Oahu. LEAP environmental educators will meet with your group of up to 30 students once a week after school on your campus. Please contact The Green House if your school is interested in participating.
We Are the World
Eco-Awareness
Students will explore their connection to nature and the link between individual actions and their global affect through a series of eco-games. Students will consider their ecological footprint, participate in a life cycle scavenger hunt, and create a trash timeline while learning how to become better stewards of the `aina.
1 - 60 minute class
Garbology
Focus will be on the 4R's (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot). Through eco-games students will be looking at their school's waste stream, learn how to perform a school waste audit, explore various landfill and lifecycle (recycle or downcycle) issues and create a contract to reduce school waste. With the help of LEAP instructors, students will also set up either a campus HI-5 recycling program, lunch room waste reduction program or paper recycling program.
2 - 60 minute classes
Star Power
Solar Power Model Car
Students will explore the power of the sun and create a mini solar powered car using recycled items. To test their designs students will get to race their cars and discuss design modifications.
2 - 60 minute classes
Solar Oven
Bake a cake or cook a stew using the power of the sun! Students will create a solar oven using recycled materials and carry out a cooking experiment -- no electricity, wood, or fossil fuels required!
2 - 60 minute classes
Ancient Arts
Papermaking from Plants
Students will make paper using tropical plants and recycled paper. Each step in fiber preparation of plants -- harvesting, beating, cooking and sheet formation -- will be covered, providing a full comprehension of papermaking from "seed to sheet."
1 - 60 minute class
Natural Dyes for Printing
We will explore the making of natural dyes using methods of our Hawaiian ancestors. Students will use recycled items to create their own stamp and print designs and patterns.1 - 60 minute class
Back to the Garden
Butterfly Garden
Explore the importance of pollinators, their life cycle, what they eat and how to care for them. Watch a caterpillar turn into a butterfly and create a garden habitat to help butterflies survive. Learn how to create a butterfly habitat from recycled items.
1 - 60 minute class
Composting
Explore the balanced recipe of ingredients needed to create a compost pile, and how the mixture transforms into finished compost. Learn about the bugs that help in the process and the importance of good soil in a garden.
1 - 60 minute class
Worm Habitats
Turn organic "waste" into "black gold" -- the best natural fertilizer for plants! Learn about composting worms and how to care for them, and build your own worm "house" from recycled items for your classroom. Students will rave about this first-hand experience with worms!
1 - 60 minute class
Seeds and Sprouts
Seeds are the source of life in more ways than one. Students will learn about seed anatomy, diversity, harvesting and planting. We'll make newspaper pots and plant seeds for students to take home.
1 - 60 minute class
3 R's Art: "Trash to Treasure"
ECO-Tee's
Abracadabra! With a little imagination and a few simple tools, students will transform old T-shirts into one-of-a-kind wearable art. Students will learn the impact of a simple T-shirt on the environment and the importance of reusing these valuable resources.
2 - 60 minute classes