{"id":13659,"date":"2018-08-02T11:57:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/?p=13659"},"modified":"2019-02-28T15:21:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T19:21:18","slug":"heroes_on_the_half_shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/2018\/08\/02\/heroes_on_the_half_shell\/","title":{"rendered":"Educating Students About The Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-one-full fusion-layout-column fusion-column-last fusion-spacing-yes\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-size-two\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left\">Heroes On The Half Shell<\/h2><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><p><strong>We are an AACPS:<\/strong>\u00a0Volunteer Program, <i>Oak Hill Elementary School<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year, Oak Hill Elementary&#8217;s Heroes on the Half Shell Volunteer Program was chosen by the Maryland State Bar Association for participation in their program that focuses on improving the health of the Chesapeake Bay while educating students about the Bay and their role in keeping it healthy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Five volunteers from the Maryland Bar Association, as well as the education outreach liaison from the Oyster Recovery Partnership, came to Oak Hill to do hands-on lessons with our fourth grade students. Their objective is to use oysters to educate students about the Chesapeake Bay, its ecosystem, and the important role we all play in the Bay\u2019s overall recovery. \u00a0The lessons teach students that they have a personal impact on the Bay and the importance of oysters in our watershed.<\/p>\n<p>The students extended their learning beyond the classroom by reaching out to restaurants and organizations, collecting oyster shells, and sharing what they had learned. In one month\u2019s time, Oak Hill students and faculty brought in more than one hundred bushels of oyster shells to be donated to the Oyster Recovery Partnership. Those shells will stay out of the local landfills \u2013 they will become substrate to support new oyster beds in our local waters.<\/p>\n<p>The Heroes\u00a0on the Half Shell\u00a0Program was recognized\u00a0at the 2018 Volunteer Breakfast as\u00a0an Exemplary Volunteer Program.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, Oak Hill Elementary was chosen by the Maryland State Bar Association for participation in their program that focuses on improving the health of the Chesapeake Bay while educating students about the Bay and their role in keeping it healthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001009,"featured_media":13662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,141,130,133,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-partnerships","category-glen_burnie_stories","category-aacps_story","category-community_stories","category-severna_park_stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13659"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13698,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13659\/revisions\/13698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}