Page Views: 222 Date Added: 09/21/2008 Last Updated: 09/21/2008 Description: Spirit of Nature Garden at Grandview Elementary school is an award winning garden that is used in teaching school cirriculum. It features native plants and sustainable water use with swales and a dissipation pond to keep rain on site, out of sewers. These are red flowering currant blossoms that provide the first nectar of spring to the returning hummingbirds. The Longhouse with totem poles carved by our elder Ramona Gus and painted by all the students we use as a community gathering site and outdoor classroom.  We climb the Mound and roll down it to the dissipation pond  where we make dams and rivers when it rains. Students painted the River of Life mural and are now making a  Mosaic Gateway Evergreen provides a range of services and resources that support school ground greening projects. One of the resources offered through Evergreen is Patterns in Relationships: Ethnobotany, an ethnobotanical  curriculum for grades 4-7 first written to serve teachers and students at Grandview Elementary. City: Vancouver Address: Maclean Drive and Woodland Ave. Contact person:   Christine Boyle Phone: 604-713-5008 Web-site: http://gra.vsb.bc.ca View Map: E-mail: Reply to Listing | Additional photos

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