A large group of grade five students at Rosedale Public School are learning how to become eco-friendly.
Dozens of students in Ms. Lumley's and Ms. McNaught's Grade 5 class are creating projects for a chance to win money for the school as part of the Shell Classroom Energy Diet.
Students across the country are learning more about how to save energy. The students create projects for certain challenges and when they complete the projects, they receive points. The classrooms with the most points win lots of money.
$40,000 is the total sum of all the prizes and the top prize is $10,000. The classrooms goals are to reach a total of 378 points.
"It's not like normal school," says Grade 5 student Alsabith Naezeer. "We're working on gardens on top of the roof and get to work with the other grade five class, where some of my friends are."
"I've learned how to save energy, like what's the best kind of energy, why fossil fuels are bad and why renewable energy is the best energy," says grade five student Kyle Matthew Philips.
Grade 5 teacher Debra Lumley says the school has some realistic goals this year.
"We've started with a mini butterfly garden at the front of the school, but we'd really like to create an actual classroom with seating and garden space where we can grow our own vegetables and we also want to put in a water fountain that is used for reusable water bottles," says Lumley.
All the classes have until April 27th to complete their ideas. You can check out all the schools participating here.
