The Garden Club of Evanston partnered with the high school in 2008 to plant, categorize and label the trees on campus, as well as create an arboretum guidebook to serve as an education resource for students.
ETHS brings students outside during class to engage with their environment. The arboretum, which covers the entire campus, features 70 species of trees and woody shrubs. Not only does ETHS have an outdoor classroom, but the school’s 65-acre campus is also recognized as a Level 1 Accredited Arboretum by ArbNet, an international program that sets standards for arboreta, which are tree-focused gardens. But he still uses the Nature Center, commonly known as the outdoor classroom, to immerse students into the surrounding natural environment. Meier said he can no longer perform this specific classroom activity because rising temperatures have thinned the ice in recent years. It is giving them a peek into something that they normally wouldn’t see.” “It’s not frozen solid, things aren’t dead. “The water is actually still alive,” Meier said. Meier, an Evanston Township High School biology teacher, said the exercise at the ETHS Nature Center showed students parts of the ecosystem they didn’t previously expect. In past winters, Scott Meier cut holes through a frozen pond to show his students the phytoplankton and zooplankton living under the ice.
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