Earth Month 2025 Recap
Earth Month 2025 at LPS might have been our best yet! Students at every grade level engaged with green topics thanks to support from staff, families and neighbors in their school communities. We’ve pulled together some Earth Month 2025 highlights from around the district.
April 16: Local Food Showcase
Northeast High School played host to a Local Food Showcase to highlight what family and consumer sciences students have learned about buying, preparing and growing local food. Community partners supporting the district’s Nourishing Northeast Lincoln grant project also shared resources and how they have been involved with school garden upgrades and hands-on learning experiences.
April 19: Lincoln Earth Day
The Sustainability Team joined dozens of other environmentally-minded organizations at Innovation Campus for Lincoln Earth Day. Attendees of all ages learned about the steps LPS takes every day to promote and support sustainability districtwide! The day included live music, a clothing swap and, thanks to Lincoln Community Learning Centers, Lincoln Earth Day’s first-ever Bike Rodeo!
April 21: S.O.S. Summit
High school students from around the district gathered at Standing Bear High School for the third annual Students of Sustainability Summit just before Earth Day. The event featured a tour of the sustainable design features on the school’s campus, including solar panels and a rooftop garden. Guest speakers from the City of Lincoln, UNL, and Omaha Students for Sustainability shared the many ways students can serve as leaders in sustainability before they even graduate!
April 22: Earth Day
LPS Sustainability published the 2024 Annual Sustainability Report on Earth Day 2025 and shared some of the report’s highlights at the Tuesday evening school board meeting. The district has made significant strides in areas like energy efficiency, waste diversion and sustainable transportation in recent years, and Earth Day provided the perfect opportunity to celebrate these 2024 wins!
April 23: Green Team Environmental Quality Investigation
Students in Lux Middle School’s Green Team club explored real-world applications of math and science concepts for Earth Month. LPS Environmental Department staff joined BVH Architecture to teach students about how air, water, lighting and sound all play a role in environmental quality indoors and out. Green Team members used handheld meters to take air quality measurements before creating graphs and discussing their findings as a group.
April 25: Arbor Day
LPS students planted 54 trees between two sites this Arbor Day! Fourth and fifth graders at Robinson Elementary School worked alongside volunteers from across Lincoln to plant trees in nearby Waterford Park, and members of Lincoln Northeast High School’s Key Club carried out the first of two plantings planned on school grounds. Both groups are working to become the latest LPS schools to earn Tree Campus K-12 Certification through the Arbor Day Foundation.
Various Dates: Even more celebrations!
Other Earth Month activities included:
- Landscaping work, crafts and a color run at Kloefkorn Elementary School
- Earth Day poster creation at Beattie Elementary School
- A courtyard reopening celebration at Maxey Elementary School
- A staff clothing swap and outdoor classroom cleanup event at Sheridan Elementary School
- Marigold planting at Norwood Park Elementary School
- Seed starting at Schoo Middle School
No matter how they celebrated, everyone who participated in an activity this April was part of something incredible here at LPS!
Updated May 1, 2025
