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Discovery Community Center - Orono Community Education

Discovery Community Center - Orono Community Education

The Discovery Community Center’s project focused the year on “going green” in each program area to encourage change in the habits of participating children and adults. As a community center, they serve a wide range of people all ages and stages including preschoolers, youth, teens and adults. Parent educators and classroom teachers incorporated reduce, reuse and recycling into parent education discussion times in Early Childhood Family Education and School Readiness. Child teachers used recycled materials for art and activity times. Reuse of materials took place from the sand/water tables to the imaginative play areas modeling for parents what they could do at home with their children. These activities were done consistently throughout the year with the children and parents getting ideas how to reuse and reduce waste in their home activities. Art classes were offered with recycled materials and music book and instrument recycling continued. Youth presented a musical to educate families and audience members and teens distributed materials and talked to area residents at the local farmers market.

 

Counties of Activity:
Hennepin
Grant Project Years:
2009

Contact Information

Melanie DeLuca
952-449-8351

Discovery Center

5050 Independence St.
Maple Plain MN 55359

Additional Resources

For state, county, Rethink Recycling, and grantee tools, visit Grantee Resources.