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UpCycle’s 2016 Spring2ACTion fundraising focus is to expand UpCycle’s outreach to serve over 2,500 students in Alexandria schools during the 2016-17 school year. By participating in UpCycle’s creative reuse programs, students learn to create art with reuse materials and how to manage waste at school and at home. Our programs support Science and Visual Arts Standards of Learning in an instructional environment that is innovative and fun!
Our 2016-17 school-based programs include:
The impact of UpCycle's school-based programs is:
UpCycle imagines a community where everyone has the opportunity to experience the fun and benefits of art exploration, and works collectively to reduce waste and repurpose our unwanted materials. We invite you to join us in this important community project.
We've got special day-of events and donation incentives planned for that day:
8 - 10:30 am - Breakfast at Del Ray Cafe - Write "UpCycle" on your receipt so that a portion of Del Ray Cafe's sales will benefit UpCycle.
11 am - 12 pm - Membership Power Hour - Donors who contribute during this time period will be entered to win one of five free memberships!
4 - 8 pm - UpCycle Crafts and Craft Beer at Port City Brewery - We'll have a community craft and raffles for free UpCycle Memberships, Tinker Time and a week of UpCycle camp! A portion of Port City sales from the event will benefit UpCycle.
UpCycle Creative Reuse Center Program Information for Schools
UpCycle’s Spring2ACTion fundraising focus is to expand UpCycle’s outreach to serve over 2,500 students in Alexandria schools during the 2016-17 school year. By participating in UpCycle’s creative reuse programs, students learn to create art with reuse materials and how to manage waste at school and at home. Our program reinforces Science and Visual Arts Standards of Learning in an instructional environment that is innovative and fun!
How Schools Can Get Involved
We invite school communities to spread the word about UpCycle’s programs for the 2016-17 school year and encourage contributions to our Spring2ACTion campaign so we can fulfill our program goals. Here’s how it works:
1. UpCycle helps you set up a page for your school on our Spring2ACTion team page.
2. UpCycle offers the following prizes:
3. On April 20, parents, teachers, and community members encourage donors to give to their school’s page.
UpCycle would like to visit your school’s next PTA meeting to share information about our school-based programs and Spring2ACTion prizes available for your school. Please contact Kelley Organek at [email protected] or 703-731-8238 to schedule our visit and set up your school fundraising page. We thank you for your support!
What is UpCycle?
UpCycle Creative Reuse Center is an Alexandria based non-profit that was founded by two teachers who wanted to provide a public art studio and source for low-cost art materials for the Alexandria City community. Our approach to arts education is guided by our belief that children learn best from experimentation, reflection, and problem solving with a wide range of materials. At UpCycle, we work to encourage the public to Choose to Reuse before buying new.
What is Creative Reuse?
Creative reuse is the process of taking used or recyclable materials and turning them into works of art, home decoration, utilitarian objects, or other useful objects. At UpCycle, we rethink the popular notion of waste by collecting cast-offs from our community to serve as creative art materials. We organize and prep the items we collect for use in a variety of creative capacities and we provide programs to help our community participate in creative reuse.
School Based Program Descriptions
Preschool Programs - Early Childhood Special Education (ESCE) and Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI)
UpCycle’s preschool programs are hands-on opportunities for children to build foundational fine motor and problem solving skills. In the ECSE classes, UpCycle incorporates reuse materials into learning stations that support the development of fine motor skills like cutting, attaching and mark making. In VPI classes, UpCycle facilitates an UpCycle Project Day that provides children the opportunity to construct, build and collage with reuse materials.
Elementary Program - Kindergarten
UpCycle’s kindergarten program demonstrates that waste materials can be a resource for scientific investigations and artistic expression through a two-part lesson that integrates science and visual arts SOLs. First, UpCycle teachers visit the kindergarten classroom to implement a science lesson where students observe and explore reuse items, describe the physical properties of reuse materials, and understand that materials can be reused, recycled, and conserved. Next, UpCycle visits during the students’ art class, where students manipulate and arrange reuse materials to create mixed media works of art that include the human figure as subject matter.
Middle School Program – 6th Grade
In middle schools, UpCycle will facilitate a Craft War Challenge for sixth graders that integrates science and art through creative craft production. This experiential learning activity reinforces resource conservation and energy concepts in the sixth grade science curriculum. Students will also engage in Visual Arts SOLs such as visual communication and production. During the Craft War Challenge, students work in small groups and present their final products for prizes based on: aesthetics, function, teamwork, best scientific narrative, and creative incorporation of the “secret ingredient.”
Our 2016-17 school-based programs include:
- Preschool: UpCycle Centers and Project Days
- Kindergarten: Science Explorations & Mixed Media Portraits
- Middle School: Sixth Grade Craft Wars
The impact of UpCycle's school-based programs is:
- Increased percentages of children who independently engage in creative reuse activites at home.
- Children expressing positive feelings about participating in creative reuse activities.
- Increased proportions of instructional materials in classrooms that are reuse oriented.
UpCycle imagines a community where everyone has the opportunity to experience the fun and benefits of art exploration, and works collectively to reduce waste and repurpose our unwanted materials. We invite you to join us in this important community project.
We've got special day-of events and donation incentives planned for that day:
8 - 10:30 am - Breakfast at Del Ray Cafe - Write "UpCycle" on your receipt so that a portion of Del Ray Cafe's sales will benefit UpCycle.
11 am - 12 pm - Membership Power Hour - Donors who contribute during this time period will be entered to win one of five free memberships!
4 - 8 pm - UpCycle Crafts and Craft Beer at Port City Brewery - We'll have a community craft and raffles for free UpCycle Memberships, Tinker Time and a week of UpCycle camp! A portion of Port City sales from the event will benefit UpCycle.
UpCycle Creative Reuse Center Program Information for Schools
UpCycle’s Spring2ACTion fundraising focus is to expand UpCycle’s outreach to serve over 2,500 students in Alexandria schools during the 2016-17 school year. By participating in UpCycle’s creative reuse programs, students learn to create art with reuse materials and how to manage waste at school and at home. Our program reinforces Science and Visual Arts Standards of Learning in an instructional environment that is innovative and fun!
How Schools Can Get Involved
We invite school communities to spread the word about UpCycle’s programs for the 2016-17 school year and encourage contributions to our Spring2ACTion campaign so we can fulfill our program goals. Here’s how it works:
1. UpCycle helps you set up a page for your school on our Spring2ACTion team page.
2. UpCycle offers the following prizes:
- Participating schools receive an Annual Family Membership (value $150) AND Annual Teacher Membership (value $75) that can be raffled or included in your annual fundraiser.
- Schools that raise $500 on their pages win a free annual membership for their art teacher (value $175-350).
3. On April 20, parents, teachers, and community members encourage donors to give to their school’s page.
UpCycle would like to visit your school’s next PTA meeting to share information about our school-based programs and Spring2ACTion prizes available for your school. Please contact Kelley Organek at [email protected] or 703-731-8238 to schedule our visit and set up your school fundraising page. We thank you for your support!
What is UpCycle?
UpCycle Creative Reuse Center is an Alexandria based non-profit that was founded by two teachers who wanted to provide a public art studio and source for low-cost art materials for the Alexandria City community. Our approach to arts education is guided by our belief that children learn best from experimentation, reflection, and problem solving with a wide range of materials. At UpCycle, we work to encourage the public to Choose to Reuse before buying new.
What is Creative Reuse?
Creative reuse is the process of taking used or recyclable materials and turning them into works of art, home decoration, utilitarian objects, or other useful objects. At UpCycle, we rethink the popular notion of waste by collecting cast-offs from our community to serve as creative art materials. We organize and prep the items we collect for use in a variety of creative capacities and we provide programs to help our community participate in creative reuse.
School Based Program Descriptions
Preschool Programs - Early Childhood Special Education (ESCE) and Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI)
UpCycle’s preschool programs are hands-on opportunities for children to build foundational fine motor and problem solving skills. In the ECSE classes, UpCycle incorporates reuse materials into learning stations that support the development of fine motor skills like cutting, attaching and mark making. In VPI classes, UpCycle facilitates an UpCycle Project Day that provides children the opportunity to construct, build and collage with reuse materials.
Elementary Program - Kindergarten
UpCycle’s kindergarten program demonstrates that waste materials can be a resource for scientific investigations and artistic expression through a two-part lesson that integrates science and visual arts SOLs. First, UpCycle teachers visit the kindergarten classroom to implement a science lesson where students observe and explore reuse items, describe the physical properties of reuse materials, and understand that materials can be reused, recycled, and conserved. Next, UpCycle visits during the students’ art class, where students manipulate and arrange reuse materials to create mixed media works of art that include the human figure as subject matter.
Middle School Program – 6th Grade
In middle schools, UpCycle will facilitate a Craft War Challenge for sixth graders that integrates science and art through creative craft production. This experiential learning activity reinforces resource conservation and energy concepts in the sixth grade science curriculum. Students will also engage in Visual Arts SOLs such as visual communication and production. During the Craft War Challenge, students work in small groups and present their final products for prizes based on: aesthetics, function, teamwork, best scientific narrative, and creative incorporation of the “secret ingredient.”