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Call it recycling with a purpose -- with the purpose actuality fun as able-bodied as educational.
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Students from several axial Ohio schools -- including Herbert Mills Elementary School, Waggoner Road Middle Academy and STEM Middle at Baldwin Road in Reynoldsburg -- alternate in the Agenda Claiming aftermost week, application agenda to actualize aggregate from belletrist to roller coasters.
Other axial Ohio participants included Evening Street and Worthington Hills Elementary schools, Indian Run Elementary Academy in Dublin, Darby Creek Elementary in Hilliard and Wickliffe Progressive Elementary Academy in Upper Arlington.
Sponsored by the PAST Foundation in affiliation with the Columbus Museum of Art, the Oct. 7 accident asked acceptance to become designers and inventors, said Lori Trent, from PAST.
"Throughout the day, acceptance are encouraged to use artistic cerebration to acknowledge to challenges application alone cardboard, band and added recyclables," she said.
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Mary Ellen Weeks, arch at Herbert Mills, said agents arrive parents to appearance the agenda creations Oct. 5 at the elementary school.
"The Agenda Claiming is a way for our acceptance to authenticate what they accept abstruse in the classroom by acceptance them to use their adroitness and our architecture aeon to body article different out of cardboard," she said.
The claiming was congenital into the class at Herbert Mills this year, acceptable an end-of-quarter appraisal in every grade, Weeks said.
"The constraints were absolutely abased on the grade, admitting the abstracts acclimated were bound to cardboard, tape, acrylic and marbles and straws in some brand levels," she said.
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Kindergarten acceptance created agenda letters; first-graders acclimated force and motion standards from their science classes to actualize mazes and second-graders acclimated measurements, forth with force and motion standards, to actualize rollercoasters.
Weeks said third-graders focused on the question, "How does the accomplished access the future?"
"Their amusing studies standards focus on Reynoldsburg history, so they interviewed association that had been allotment of the burghal for almost 50 years, as able-bodied as assembly from the burghal planning office," she said.
She said the acceptance congenital a 3D alike map of Reynoldsburg as it ability attending 50 years from now.
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Fourth-graders acclimated abstracts and amusing studies standards to advertise Ohio history, architecture monuments that can be begin all over the state.
"They included a placard aloft anniversary monument, with a account and a QR cipher that links aback to a student-created presentation on that monument," Weeks said. "The acceptance and agents did an amazing job on these -- I am actual proud."
Trent said PAST is a nonprofit foundation that has been a baton in designing STEM apprenticeship beyond the nation for the accomplished 17 years. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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