Schools : Education news : Venado Teacher Wins With Waste

Miriam Johnson, a science teacher at Venado Middle School in Irvine, recently won a second-place award in Toshiba’s Encouraging Excellence in Science Education program and a $500 first-place award in the middle school category.

Johnson developed a program to complement a videotaped field trip to a landfill by bringing “clean” garbage into the classroom for students to analyze.

The program includes discussions on the effects of waste on the environment and over-packaging of consumer products.