Welcome to our blog! We are so excited to be participating in the Disney Planet Challenge. We worked hard on our project and will tell you about it in this blog.
We are right on the edge of Frick Park a 561 acre green space. We spend a lot of time in the park and regularly observe plants and animals on our hikes. In Environmental Education this year, we have been working with a group called the Urban Eco Stewards. Through their lessons, we have identified the problems invasive plants are causing to the natural habitats in our watershed. We want to change this!
As a class, we researched many options of how to work against this problem. Pulling all the invasive plants out of the park was not a sustainable solution for us. We decided instead to raise awareness about the subject in our community. We plan to do this by planting a native plant garden at our school and providing learning tools about invasive and native plants to our community. This blog is our first step to making this possible. Please read the subsequent posts to learn what we've learned. Also, please feel free to share information and/or make comments. Hopefully as a community, we can help prevent the spread of invasive species and protect our local watershed.
For more information on Frick Park please visit:
http://www.pittsburghparks.org/frick
For more information on Imagine Environmental Charter School please visit:
http://www.environmentalcharterschool.org/
For more information on the Disney Planet Challenge please visit:
http://disney.go.com/planetchallenge/
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