by SEMIS Coalition | May 28, 2023 | Community Forum 2023
Wylie fourth graders were learning about the Michigan Legislative Process and discovered that House Bill #6382 had been introduced to the House of Representatives in September 2022. This is a bill to change the Michigan State Bird from Robin to Kirtland’s Warbler....
by SEMIS Coalition | May 18, 2023 | Community Forum 2023
Students created Public Service Announcements (PSAs) to protect the Huron River Watershed. They are also creating visuals to support what they’ve learned. By: Maggie and Alice, 3rd Grade Teacher: Sarah Russell Theme: General Place-based Education and Stormwater...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 18, 2023 | Community Forum 2023
Students created Public Service Announcements (PSAs) to protect the Huron River Watershed. They are also creating visuals to support what they’ve learned. By: Charlotte, Jillian, Mason, and Jace, 3rd Grade Teacher: Sarah Russell Theme: General Place-based...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 18, 2023 | Community Forum 2023
Students created Public Service Announcements (PSAs) to protect the Huron River Watershed. They are also creating visuals to support what they’ve learned. By: Alex, Harrison, Declan, and Colton, 3rd Grade Teacher: Sarah Russell Theme: General Place-based...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 18, 2023 | Community Forum 2023
Students created Public Service Announcements (PSAs) to protect the Huron River Watershed. They are also creating visuals to support what they’ve learned. By: JP, Karli, and Cece, 3rd Grade Teacher: Sarah Russell Theme: General Place-based Education and...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 18, 2023 | Community Forum 2023
Students are created Public Service Announcements (PSAs) to protect the Huron River Watershed. They are also creating visuals to support what they’ve learned. By: Kaylee, Ellie, Eli, and El, 3rd Grade Teacher: Sarah Russell Theme: General Place-based Education...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 18, 2023 | Community Forum 2023
Students from 3 classes at Wylie Elementary in Dexter, MI worked on this project. Wylie Elementary students worked with Arbor Day Research and Distribution teams to learn about their mission, the value of trees, and how they could contribute to the effort around Arbor...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 17, 2023 | Community Forum 2023
This presentation documents our year-long adventure raising salmon in the classroom for release into the Lake Michigan. By: Olivia Caviani, Sophia Korican, and Michael Puglia, 4th Grade Teacher: Jim Barnes Theme: Stormwater and Watershed Education...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 18, 2022 | Community Forum 2022
By Annalies “Anni” Messner, Wylie Elementary School, Dexter, Michigan Climate change is bad for the Earth because it makes the surfacewarmer, it can kill plants by drying them out, and most of all, it’s caused by humans!!! One reason climate change is bad for the...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 18, 2022 | Community Forum 2022
By Juliette Dubuque, Wylie Elementary School, Dexter, Michigan https://planetdetroit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Natalie-Hanlon_01.mp3 My name is Juliette, and I’m in fourth grade. And right now, climate change is affecting my life. It’s real hot, I’ll tell you...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 18, 2022 | Community Forum 2022
By Alice Meek, Wylie Elementary School, Dexter, Michigan What are some of the things I have heard about climate change? What has inspired me to take action? I noticed a problem in my school. There’s trash all over the playgrounds. One day my friend and I thought of...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 18, 2022 | Community Forum 2022
By Livielle Peters, tree, water, and earth lover, Wylie Elementary School, Dexter, Michigan You, me, trees, water, and our natural world, need each other. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, which we can’t breathe. The more trees that are being cut down, the more...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 17, 2022 | Community Forum 2022
Wylie students were inspired by Mother Earth Water Walkers to bring awareness to the importance of clean fresh water, here in Michigan.Note: Student projects may be difficult to hear in spots. Please stay tuned while full written transcripts are being prepared! By:...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 17, 2022 | Community Forum 2022
This project was inspired by Wylie students expressing concern about the first day when masks would become optional. Our class found that there were students that were so excited about the opportunity to be maskless at school and others that were very anxious and...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 17, 2022 | Community Forum 2022
This group will present information about what we have learned about pertaining to our exploration of beavers who have taken residence near a local creek. By: Carson Creehan, Dez Meiers, Hudson Perrine, Kaya Rossi, 3rd Grade Teacher: Betsy Schmidt, Wylie Elementary,...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 17, 2022 | Community Forum 2022
Third graders at Wylie Elementary school became aware of beaver activity on Mill Creek in downtown Dexter after reading an article in the SunTimes News. Our class invited expert guest speakers to teach us about the importance of beavers in an ecosystem and did lots of...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 16, 2022 | Community Forum 2022
What can we do to take matters into our own hands and care for our school/community? Check this out to learn what one class did and how it morphed into so much more. By: Leander, Xuily, Phoebe, Erin, Ryan, Dom, Yuika, Iris, Ellis, Tenzin, Henry, Ily, Madison, Gabby,...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 16, 2022 | Community Forum 2022
Many people don’t pay attention to where they throw their trash and recycling. We want to teach people how to properly get rid of their “disposable stuff.” By: Ben Prall and Brady Gross, 4th Grade Teacher: Anouk Weiss, Wylie Elementary, Dexter Theme:...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 16, 2022 | Community Forum 2022
By: Rowan C, Avery J., Ava H., and Kaitlin M., 5th GradeList of all students involved Do your choices on land impact the health of our waters and the critter who live there? Fifth grade students at George Long Elementary will show you what they’ve...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 17, 2021 | Community Forum 2021
During our recent energy project our classes were asked to complete the ECOWORKS Healthy Home Audit and to write a persuasive essay demanding that our school admin give (our classes) permission to install a solar array. This is a how-to showing how to complete the...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 17, 2021 | Community Forum 2021
Ypsilanti Community Schools Public Education: Diversity, Equity and Justice – Art Highlights from SEMIS Coalition on Vimeo. Click each paint palette icon on the map to see student artwork The YCS Public Education Banner Project features artwork originally made...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 17, 2021 | Community Forum 2021
If you see an error (“Unable to play video. Error: 5”) and cannot play the videos in the presentation below, try clicking this link to the presentation directly. If that doesn’t work, try disabling browser plugins (like Privacy Badger, ClearURLs) on...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 17, 2021 | Community Forum 2021
We are in the process of locating the stormwater drains near their homes around the school, mapping the locations on MyMaps, and stenciling them to remind people only water should go down the drain. By: 5th Graders Teacher: Jennifer Edwards, Ronald Brown Academy...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 17, 2021 | Community Forum 2021
This was one of the many community activism choices the students developed as part of our work on Mill Creek. This group of students worked with Singer-Songwriter Joe Reilly to write, compose and record about Mill Creek. One of the students decided we needed a video...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 17, 2021 | Community Forum 2021
This is a culmination of our Place-Based work around Mill Creek, including, song writing, our collaboration with the HRWC, fly tying, raising brown trout to release into the Mill Creek in collaboration with Trout Unlimited and our interactive story map work with Ducks...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 17, 2021 | Community Forum 2021
During our recent energy project our classes were asked to complete the ECOWORKS Healthy Home Audit and to write a persuasive essay demanding that our school admin give (our classes) permission to install a solar array. This is a how-to showing how to complete the...
