Jane Goodall Environmental Middle School

In the 1990s, Waldo Middle School in Salem, Oregon, began offering the Roots & Shoots program as an after-school activity.

[1] The program was founded by Jane Goodall in 1991 as a way of teaching young people how to get involved in environmental issues.

[3] Later that year, members of the group travelled to a summit of the Jane Goodall Institute in Brewster, New York.

The curriculum at JGEMS consists of conservation biology, language arts, social studies, mathematics, integrated science, physical education/health education, and technology.

Projects are endangered species project, Oregon silverspot butterfly, reed canary grass suppression, frog deformities, amphibian monitoring, indefinite maintenance at Pringle Creek, macroinvertebrates census, Aumsville pond restoration, Little Pudding River restoration, forest fire severity, monitoring the movement of the heavy wood debris by tides and high water events at Siletz Bay National Wildlife Refuge, forest ecology at Opal Creek Education Center, and research on the snowy plover.