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Step 1 - Let's Begin

● Identify project participants and determine available project time [Do you want to involve all of your students? A small group? Other teachers and classes?]
● Assign group leaders to communicate with maintenance staff
● Begin securing partnership involvement
● Get written agreement from school administration and maintenance staff
● Clarify roles and responsibilities
● Each school may allow a different amount of landscape changes
● Ensure that there will be open communication throughout the project

Cross-section of a rain garden / bioretention area
Cross-section of a rain garden / bioretention area. Click on thumbnail to view enlarged image.

 

 

 

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Sarah Tangren's Farm, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.  Photo Courtesy of Larry Coffman, Prince George's County DER, MD.

 

 

 

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  Project Steps  


Step 1 - Let's Begin
Step 2 - Goals/Objectives & Budget
Step 3 - Gather Information
Step 4 - Location & Size
Step 5 - Designing
Step 6 - Selecting Plants
Step 7 - Design Review & Obtaining Permission
Step 8 - Preliminary Plans for Construction Day
Step 9 - Construction
Step 10 - Advertise
Step 11 - Develop Timeline
Step 12 - Construction Day
Step 13
- Maintenance
Step 14
- Write Summary Report

 

 

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