Worksheet for Field Trips, developed from Heming, A (2017).

What You Feel, Hear and See at a Green

School
A green school begins with the future in mind, designing
a learning experience for students that will prepare them
to lead the world toward a healthier, cleaner, more
sustainable future. The three pillars were first introduced when the U.S.
Department of Education launched the ED-Green Ribbon Schools award
program in 2011. Since then, over 60 organizations have adopted the basic
measurement framework that they present:

1. Reduced environmental impact

2. Increased health and well-being
3. Increased environmental and sustainability literacy for all graduates
These three pillars are the measurable success metrics for green schools, and
they make a real impact on both global sustainability and individual student
and teacher health.

Question 1: Reducing Environmental Impact

When you are visiting this particular school, please identify some show cases
(facts/real fenomena) that support this pillar? Reducing environmental impact
includes reducing energy and water use, cutting back on fossil fuel used in
transportation, reducing waste headed to landfill and protecting natural
habitats.

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 FACTS: what are you feeling? What are you seeing? What are you
hearing?

When I was in this school, the situation is so calm, fresh, and

many trees so the condition could make the students have
concentration to their studies. Beside that, I can see many
things that so unique. There, many things that according to the
widely people is useless, in this school it is reuse and recycle
to be usefull things, like pot, lantern, and vase. That product
of recycle is so beautiful if we look that it is made by the
students. Then, from the beginning the students are teached by
the teachers to distinguish between two types of carbage, they
are organic and non organic carbage. To approve this, the green
school facilitate it with two types of trash according to the
carbage’s type. According to the headmaster, this habit can give
the positive impact to the environment. Also, the headmaster said
that this school has a principle to minimize the cutting of the
trees to build a new building. They will cut the trees if they in
the urge situation and replace it with a new trees, if the
building can be builded without cut the trees, they will let the
trees life. Then, in the school the student were taught to use
the electric energy and water as needed. So these things will not
damage the environment.

These actions have an effect on humans and the Earth:

 We know that cutting energy usage in buildings reduces energy load on
power plants, reducing carbon emissions and other environmental
impacts of power generation.
 We know that cutting water usage in buildings reduces aquifer
depletion,2protects freshwater habitats and reduces the energy used to
treat and transport water.
 We know that reducing waste going to landfill saves open land for habitat
and other purposes and reduces water and soil contamination. We also
know that the effort of reducing landfill waste encourages direct reuse
and puts more material in the recycling stream.
 We know that reducing car trips made by a single rider cuts back on
carbon emissions from transportation.

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Question 2: Protecting Health and Well-being

When you are visiting this particular school, please identify

some show cases that support this pillar? Protecting student and
teacher health includes ensuring a clean and healthy indoor
environment in the school, as well as providing programs and services for good
nutrition and physical activity.

FACTS: what are you feeling? What are you seeing? What are
you hearing?

Protecting students health and well being is very noted by the

teachers and school. To provide this condition, the school
taught the student to distinguish between two types of carbage
(organic and non organic), they will always remembering the
students about it until it’s can to be a habit to throw the
carbage in the place that appropriate with it’s type. Also, to
protect the students health, green school has the rules that
every students should bring their lunch from home. This rules
is made to avoid the student eat something unhealthy. Then,
after have lunch, the students should wash their lunch
equipment by theirself. Also, once a month the school will
holds a medical examination and every three months for dental
health services. Not only that, to make the student can study
calmly and comfort, every classromm has windows and its
ventilation for the air sirculation naturally. So in the
classromm the condition isn’t too hot even though there is no
fan.

Paying attention to health in schools has an impact on well-being and learning:

 We know that specific aspects of indoor air quality—such as the amount
of CO2, VOCs, particulates and humidity in the air—have demonstrable
impacts on student learning and human health more generally.
 We know that access to clean and safe drinking water can increase water
intake, which benefits overall health. We also know that lead
contamination in water has demonstrable impacts on cognitive
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 development, attention and behavior, as well as a variety of impacts on
physical health.
 We know that exposure to daylight affects the production of important
hormones that impact alertness and sleep/wake cycles.
 We know that increasing the number of servings of whole grains, fruit
and vegetables that students eat has positive impacts on their health,
well-being and ability to learn.
 We know that increasing the amount of physically active time that each
student experiences during the school day can cut obesity rates and
encourage positive lifetime habits.

Question 3: Environmental and Sustainability Literacy

When you are visiting this particular school, please identify some
show cases that support this pillar? Teaching students about
sustainability and the environment gives them the tools they need
to solve the global challenges we face now and in the future.
Education that supports this type of literacy includes both curriculum and
instructional practices that are interdisciplinary, place-based and rooted in the
context that uniquely surrounds each student.

FACTS: what are you feeling? What are you seeing? What are you
hearing?

Because almost of the student in this school are need more

“attention”, almost of the activity in this school is held with
the action out of the class. The curriculum that applied there
isn’t same with the school generally. In this school, the students
are teaches how to gardening, raising, and caring for fish. For
gardening, they use vegetables and fruit plant like corn, mustard
green, and banana. For raising, they use goat, rabbit, goose,
ostrich. And the types of the fish are goldfish and catfish. These
activity are expected to form students character and habits until
the students graduate from this school. Also can bring a big
change for the people generally and the students especially.

This education impacts student understanding and action:

 We know that increasing students’ environmental knowledge while also
employing instructional practices that focus on interdisciplinary and
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 place-based problem solving can influence behavior change toward
sustainability.
 We know that students for whom the environment is a context for
learning perform better on measures of general academic performance.

Good Luck
(Andreas Priyono)