Our educators will provide your classes with in-person hands-on workshops or remote interactive workshops.
Sustainable Auburn Workshop - Reduce Waste and Recycle right:
Our education team is ready to work with you and your 3rd - 5th grade students this school year!
While exploring concepts of natural resource consumption, waste reduction, and recycling, students will use critical thinking, science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills to identify problems and discuss possible actions.
The Sustainable Auburn workshop ranges from 45-60 minutes, depending on class need. This workshop is designed for 3rd-5th grade audiences.
Students will learn about sustainable choices while focusing on examples of consumption and waste. Students will discuss how natural resources are connected to everyday products. Student will share thoughts and ideas around how choosing reusable products and properly sorting their waste can help reduce our impact on the natural world. Student uses hands-on activities to emphasize choices they can make at home and at school to help protect the environment. Students will gain information tools they can then use to help your school go green!
Resources: Supplemental Sustainable Auburn materials for teachers available upon request.
- Online Sustainable Auburn video
- Supplement student activity sheet (PDF)
To request a workshop or materials, see below.
Hazards on the Homefront Workshop: Household Hazardous Products and Safer Choices
Our education team is ready to work with you and your 3rd - 8th grade students this year!
While learning how to identify hazardous products commonly found around the home and in schools, students will engage in critical thinking and problem solving to make real-life decisions about hazardous products. The workshop will highlight the importance of identifying household hazardous products and making safer product choices.
The Hazards on the Homefront workshop ranges from 45-60 minutes, depending on class need. This workshop is designed for 3rd - 8th grade audiences. The workshop is adapted to meet developmental needs of different grade levels.
Students will learn how to identify hazardous products through the use of Signal Words. Students will practice reading product labels and will assess the information on the label. Students will discuss safer alternatives they can share and use to keep themselves and their families safer at home.
The WA Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) approved this lesson as a supplemental curriculum for local classrooms. The workshop features adapted materials for English Language Learners.
Resources: Supplemental Sustainable Auburn materials for teachers available upon request.
- Online Household Hazardous Products video
- Supplement student activity sheet (PDF)
To request a workshop or materials, see below.
To schedule a presentation or request supplemental student materials
In-class presentations are available for the 2022-2023 school year but don't delay – space is limited! For in-class presentations, we ask that a minimum of three classes be scheduled per school visit.
Please send an email or call Phoebi at 206-583-0655 Ext 111 (or toll free at 1-800-227-0977).
Information and funding for these workshops and materials is provided by grants from the King County Solid Waste Department, Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County, and Department of Ecology.
- Preschool and Kindergarten Program - storybook reading
- Elementary School Program - school assembly with classroom presentation or assistance with a Green Team project.
- Secondary School Program - classroom presentation or assistance with a Green Team project.
- Heroes' at Schools Program - get recognition for your school's environmental accomplishments.
Join more than 200 schools and 12 school districts in King County that have received assistance from the program, improved their conservation practices, involved students in conservation and outreach efforts, and received recognition!
Read about the program mission, the assistance and supplies provided by the program and program steps in How it Works.
Check out the success stories about schools and districts that have completed program levels since 2009. Also see success stories about districts and schools that participated prior to 2009, and read participant comments.
The Auburn School District partners with The King County Green Schools Program. Interested in starting a green schools program? Contact your school administrator, then contact Scott Weide, the Auburn School District's Resource Conservation Manager via email or at 253-931-4955.
Auburn School District Green Schools or Auburn School District Resource Conservation webpages.
Other Green Team & Environmental Resources
- 2017 U of WA Livable Cities, Auburn School District Food Waste Reduction Project - School cafeterias generate a significant amount of wasted food. An estimated 30 to 50 percent of edible food in schools is not eaten by students and is instead sent to landfills or composting facilities. The purpose of this University of Washington Livable Cities project was to work with the Auburn School District (ASD) on current cafeteria and kitchen solid waste to inform a pilot School Food Share Program and to help identify effective waste reduction strategies. Students made suggested actions schools could take to reduce and recycle overall waste, including wasted food, and offered recommendations for what could be donated from schools as edible food products. View more information on the 2016-2017 Livable City Year Partnership with the City of Auburn.
- EarthGen, formerly called Washington (State) Green Schools Program - Provides resources and tools to involve students, teachers, and community members in assessing and taking action to increase resource conservation and waste reduction in schools.
- Washington State Department of Ecology, Ecology for Educators & Students - Provides environmental education materials for classroom teachers and students' research, community educators' programs and for individuals choosing to make a difference.
Contacts for Information & Assistance
- City of Auburn Utility Billing Solid Waste Specialist - email Kathleen Edman or call 253-931-3038
- Auburn School District's Resource Conservation Manager - email Scott Weide or call 253-931-4955.