Habitat Restoration
- Our elementary salad garden improves the soil, evokes the agricultural history of Maryland and of the land on which our school is built, and provides healthy produce. Students plant the seeds, grow the plants, measure growth as part of their curriculum, and harvest the produce.
- Students throughout K-8 play parts in the Oyster Recovery Program. They haul bags of spat, care for oysters cages, measure water quality and salinity, and learn about the importance of oysters to the health of the bay.
- Three elementary students wrote an article for the local paper about St. Martin’s Oyster Recovery Program.
- Elementary students have built and delivered osprey nests, and the opportunity to do so again in 2014-15 is being investigated.
- Housed in the Spanish and Math room, the St. Martin’s bearded dragon is feed and cared for by 1st grade students. Sixth and 7th grade math students exercise the bearded dragon, named Don Quixote, during class. When they take Don Quixote out of his housing, which is lit and warm, they put a sign on the door: Cuidado!! Don Quixote is exercising. Students designed his space, which is dry and resembles his native habitat. Students learn that animals require care and attention.